All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 16 2019 // Brightway Insurance will open four new stores in Florida, South Carolina and Colorado on Monday, August 19.Alex McGregor opened Brightway, The McGregor Agency in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Lisa Jewell opened Brightway, The...
Aug 16 2019 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance for independent insurance agencies, has announced that two Miami, Fla.-based independent insurance agencies have recently joined the Alliance.Gil &...
Aug 15 2019 // Brown & Brown of Florida Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of CKP.CKP provides brokerage services for customers throughout the U.S. operating in agricultural industry. In addition, CKP provides property...
Aug 14 2019 // The nation’s excess and surplus lines insurance industry is growing almost 13 percent faster halfway through this year than it did last year at this time.Mid-year premium growth reported by the 15 excess and surplus...
Aug 14 2019 // Much is being made of a recent call by Florida Insurance Commissioner, David Altmaier, for insurance companies to “redouble efforts to resolve all open claims…” related to Hurricane Michael. Here’s the...
Aug 14 2019 // The climate is changing, and it has become abundantly clear that Florida is going to be badly damaged in the decades ahead.With the state experiencing increasingly devastating effects of severe tropical weather and...
Aug 9 2019 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed Dr. Julia Nesheiwat as Florida’s first Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). The CRO will be tasked with preparing Florida for the environmental, physical and economic impacts of...
Aug 8 2019 // Officials in the southwest Florida city of Naples say they lost $700,000 in a recent cyberattack.The Naples Daily News reports that the attack was a “spear phishing” effort targeting a specific person or...
Aug 7 2019 // The Florida Supreme Court has reversed course and decided not to hear a controversial case regarding the validity of certain language around assignment of benefit agreements, instead ruling that a law passed by the Florida...
Aug 7 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the FSR to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR to “a-” from “bbb+” of State Farm Florida Insurance Co. (State Farm Florida) based in Winter Haven, Fla. The...
Aug 6 2019 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Florida based insurance distribution holding company, has partnered with Foundation Insurance of Florida, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based insurance agency.Foundation Insurance of Florida was...
Aug 5 2019 // Tasha Carter, long-time director of the Florida Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) Division of Consumer Services, has been appointed by Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis as the state’s Insurance...
Aug 5 2019 // The Vertafore technology users network, NetVU, has named Linda Dodson as executive director. Dodson’s career has included work in an insurance agency and with agency carriers. She began her insurance career with Rand...
Aug 2 2019 // Tesla Inc. was sued for the second time in three months by the family of a car owner who was killed in a crash while using the driver-assistance system Autopilot.Jeremy Banner, 50, died when the Model 3 sedan he was...
Aug 1 2019 // With more than 20,000 claims related to Hurricane Michael still open nine months after the storm hit the Florida Panhandle, Florida’s top insurance regulator is calling on the insurance industry to take “all...
Aug 1 2019 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., has expanded its presence in Florida with the acquisitions of West Coast Insurance Group and Combs Insurance, effective...
Jul 31 2019 // The Florida Cabinet fired the state’s top banking regulator last week, a week after the release of a state investigator’s report asserting that the official misused his public office and subjected women to...
Jul 30 2019 // Florida’s insurance regulator has established 2019 rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. after the insurer resubmitted its rate filing as part of a requirement of the new assignment of benefits law that...
Jul 30 2019 // Hurricanes Irma and Michael served as a reminder that Florida, more than any other state, is at risk of one of the most intense natural perils, namely hurricanes. The existence of a stable insurance market providing its...
Jul 29 2019 // Officials say more than 1,000 guests were temporarily evacuated from a Florida hotel near SeaWorld after a fire broke out in a room. Orange County Fire Rescue posted on Twitter that Thursday morning’s blaze at the...