All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 13 2019 // Federal officials have announced plans to raise $100 million to fund projects to restore seven significant coral reef sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.“Mission: Iconic Reefs” calls for...
Dec 13 2019 // Burns & Wilcox has promoted John Heaner to associate managing director from underwriting manager, commercial insurance. Heaner is based in the Burns & Wilcox Tampa, Fla., office Heaner will oversee and manage...
Dec 11 2019 // Federal authorities are investigating a cyberattack on the city of Pensacola, Florida, home to the naval air station where a Saudi flight student killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Friday.Mayor Grover...
Dec 11 2019 // South Carolina Department of Insurance Director Ray Farmer and Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier have been elected to the positions of president and president-elect, respectively, of the NAIC (National...
Dec 10 2019 // Florida-based Acentria Insurance has been busy since its founding by industry veteran Kendall McEachern in 2010. The personal and commercial lines agency has acquired several agencies and now has 50 locations and more than...
Dec 9 2019 // Neptune Flood, based in St. Petersburg Fla., has realigned its leadership team, announcing that its CEO and chairman are switching roles. Trevor Burgess will assume the role of CEO and Jim Albert will take on the role of...
Dec 9 2019 // New scientific projections released Wednesday predict that ocean levels will rise even faster than previously forecast over the next four decades in low-lying southeastern Florida, which is already prone to frequent...
Dec 6 2019 // Worldwide Facilities, LLC, a national wholesale insurance brokerage, managing general agency and program manager, has acquired Risk Management Advisory Group (RMAG), a managing wholesale broker based in Miami Lakes, Fla.,...
Dec 5 2019 // For residents of the Glades, a string of poor, predominantly African American rural towns dotting the southern shore of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, the beginning of the annual sugar cane harvest in October means the...
Dec 5 2019 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has appointed Allison Hess Sitte as Government Affairs director for the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR), effective Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. Allison Sitte Sitte most recently...
Dec 4 2019 // After Richard Branson announced his Virgin Group would partner with Brightline, Florida’s new higher-speed passenger rail service, a train whisked the British billionaire, VIPs and journalists from Miami to West Palm...
Dec 4 2019 // JAG Insurance Group – a South Florida-based commercial insurance agency with offices in Coral Gables, Delray Beach and Charlotte, N.C. – has added Leo Portes to the firm as chief insurance officer.Portes joins JAG with...
Dec 3 2019 // Claims villages hosted by the Florida Department of Financial Services since August 2019 have led to the resolution of $4.1 million in insurance claims for nearly 750 residents impacted by Hurricane Michael, according to a...
Dec 3 2019 // Authorities say one person was injured when a boat exploded at a Florida marina. Citing the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, news outlets report 50-year-old David Weil fueled up his fiberglass boat Sunday at a Largo...
Dec 2 2019 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC, a national insurance agency, has added Shapiro Insurance Group (SIG) to its platform.The partnership with SIG marks Patriot’s entry into the Florida marketplace and strengthens...
Nov 27 2019 // Veteran Brightway Insurance Franchise Owners David Pojero and David Jones have expanded their business enterprise with a second Brightway store in Central Florida.The business partners opened their first Brightway office...
Nov 26 2019 // The Florida Bar has opened an investigation of a New York lawyer who it says may have been practicing in Florida without a license.The Bar’s investigation of Stuart Finkelstein stems from federal charges this week...
Nov 26 2019 // A Florida state court judge ordered the co-founder of the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. to answer questions under oath in a case involving a woman suing the cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA.While Juul has challenged...
Nov 25 2019 // Authorities say three people in Florida were killed in a vehicle that collided with an Amtrak passenger train, but no passengers aboard the train were hurt.Palm Beach County Fire Rescue told news outlets the crash happened...
Nov 25 2019 // A Florida woman has been convicted of fraudulently obtaining Hurricane Irma disaster relief money.Court records show that 37-year-old Karen Latrice Houston was convicted by a jury in Tampa federal court this week of three...