All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2019 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has been elected by members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to serve as vice president of the organization, effective immediately.Altmaier joins...
Feb 4 2019 // The Keyes Company’s insurance division, Keyes Insurance, has hired Mark Introcaso as chief operating officer.Introcaso brings more than 37 years of experience in the insurance industry, most recently with Peoples...
Feb 1 2019 // It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with a swerving tractor-trailer, igniting diesel fuel and killing seven people in a fiery crash.Now,...
Feb 1 2019 // The FBI and local police are investigating a Miami-area mystery: Who dug a narrow tunnel that burrowed beneath a road and pointed toward a quiet suburban bank branch office?FBI spokesman Mike Leverock said Wednesday that...
Jan 31 2019 // It could take a decade or more for Florida’s timber industry to recover from Hurricane Michael’s devastation, and the countless downed trees pose an immediate wildfire threat, Florida Forest Service Director...
Jan 30 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier, Normandy Insurance Company, has expanded into Oklahoma and is now offering workers’ comp coverage to small, mid-size and large businesses in the...
Jan 30 2019 // Every day the impact technology has on our daily lives increases. The legal profession is not immune to the inundation of technological advances. A prime example of the collision of law and technology is how forensic...
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 28 2019 // Authorities say a possible tornado damaged several homes and downed trees and powerlines as a line of storms crossed central Florida. News outlets report winds tore much of the roof off of the parsonage at Tuscanooga...
Jan 28 2019 // Florida will get potentially hundreds of million dollars for Hurricane Michael recovery after President Donald Trump agreed to expand the number of days the federal government will reimburse state and local governments for...
Jan 25 2019 // A South Florida developer is questioning the well-established facts of climate change, and is putting his money where his mouth is, investing millions to build residential projects in highly exposed Miami Beach.Brazilian...
Jan 23 2019 // A few comic books from a stolen Batman collection worth $1.4 million have been recovered after an arrest in Arizona. News station ABC-15 in Phoenix reports that police charged Phillip Weisbauer of Royal Palm Beach,...
Jan 23 2019 // Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the Legislature’s implementation of a medical marijuana law and said last week that if they don’t fix it quickly, he’ll take matters into his own...
Jan 22 2019 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has reached agreement to acquire Clearwater, Fla.-based Bouchard Insurance, a full-service agency in Florida. Terms of the transaction,...
Jan 22 2019 // A Florida man is reaching out to the comic-collecting community, hoping to reclaim nearly 450 valuable comic books that were recently stolen. The Sun Sentinel reports that Randy Lawrence posted on social media last week...
Jan 22 2019 // Homes, businesses, government offices and churches were among the buildings badly damaged or demolished when tornadoes struck central Alabama over the weekend.The severe weather hit Saturday and another tornado was...
Jan 18 2019 // A Florida jury has awarded nearly $500 million to the family of a woman fatally shot during an argument in a car in 2011.The family of 20-year-old Kalil McCoy of Jacksonville filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the man...
Jan 18 2019 // An unlicensed insurance adjuster has been arrested over unlicensed public adjusting activities and the filing of false and fraudulent liens on individuals’ homes following Hurricane Irma, according to a statement...
Jan 17 2019 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance to small, mid-size, and large businesses in Texas.This marks the fourth major expansion by the...
Jan 17 2019 // Cabrillo Coastal General Insurance Agency launched a flood endorsement for new or existing dwelling fire policies for its admitted program in Florida.The coverage follows Cabrillo Coastal’s launch of a flood...