All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2019 // The Federal Association for Insurance Reform (FAIR), formerly the Florida Association for Insurance Reform, is expanding nationwide with a focus on reducing uninsured flood risk across the United States.FAIR is a...
Jun 12 2019 // Tampa, Fla.- based American Integrity Insurance has appointed Executive Vice President Jon Ritchie as chief operating officer.He will continue to report to Bob Ritchie, president and CEO. In this role, Jon Ritchie will...
Jun 12 2019 // Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis has launched an initiative designed to encourage Floridians to prepare now before a hurricane makes landfall. According to a statement from the Florida Department of...
Jun 11 2019 // Zurich has launched Cat4Home, a new hurricane deductible buy-back program through Vertus Insurance Partners.Cat4Home is a supplemental insurance policy available to residential homeowners in Florida and covers 100% of the...
Jun 10 2019 // Governor Ron DeSantis says nearly half a billion dollars from the federal government will help Florida timber growers recover from the impacts of Hurricane Michael.The governor met with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny...
Jun 10 2019 // A Florida elementary school teacher was arrested on multiple felony charges including insurance fraud and organized scheme to defraud for allegedly staging a fake car accident in a local Publix parking lot, according to a...
Jun 6 2019 // Personal lines insurer National General Holdings Corp. (NGHC) will begin offering private flood insurance in Florida later this summer after its acquisition of Syndeste LLC, an insurance technology company.National General...
Jun 5 2019 // The Florida Supreme Court has reversed a prior court’s decision to use a nearly 100-year-old standard on expert witness testimony and instead adopted stricter federal standards currently used by a majority of...
Jun 4 2019 // A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a policy exclusion for invasion of privacy claims relieved an insurer of any responsibility for a $60 million settlement against a Boca Raton company for violations of the...
Jun 4 2019 // The Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1, puts 7.3 million homes at risk with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion, CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report.That’s 300,000 more homes and...
Jun 4 2019 // Firefighters for Walt Disney World’s private government say they’re understaffed and that poses a safety risk as the Florida theme park resort grows even bigger with this year’s openings of a new Star...
Jun 4 2019 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, Florida’s insurer of last resort, has joined the Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC), an insurance industry consortium spearheaded by the National Insurance Crime Bureau...
Jun 3 2019 // Jennifer Szalkay has rejoined Appalachian Underwriters’ Brokerage division in Sarasota, Fla. Now a senior broker, she will be working on specialty casualty and construction accounts in all 50 states. Jennifer...
May 31 2019 // Some 7.3 million U.S. homes with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion are at risk from storm surge, Irvine, California-based data analytics provider CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report, issued days...
May 29 2019 // Floridians are becoming more concerned about hurricane season, after enduring four major storms in the past three years, including a category five last year, according to a survey from AAA.The AAA survey, conducted online...
May 24 2019 // Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has appointed Ronald E. “Nate” Natherson, Jr. as president and CEO. Ronald E. “Nate” Natherson, Jr. Natherson joins Gulfstream having previously served...
May 24 2019 // Long-awaited reforms for Florida’s assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis that the insurance industry and consumer advocates say has led to less coverage and higher rates for Florida property owners will officially...
May 23 2019 // Willis Towers Watson has made a series of personnel appointments across its Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB) operations in Florida.CRB’s has focused on delivering innovative products to clients with an emphasis on...
May 22 2019 // Authorities say two charter buses carrying Florida children with learning disabilities crashed, sending 34 people to a hospital with minor injuries.The Tampa Bay Times reports 91 children and seven adults were traveling in...
May 22 2019 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Fla.-headquartered insurance distribution and consulting holding company, has appointed Trevor Baldwin as chief executive officer.He will take over for Lowry Baldwin, who will maintain...