All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2025 // Chicago-based Hub International, an insurance broker and financial services firm with offices across North America, has acquired another agency in the Southeast.Hub announced that it has acquired the assets of C&L...
Mar 10 2025 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is planning to move its Jacksonville office, due in part to security concerns at its current downtown location where more than 800 employees have worked for the last 10...
Mar 10 2025 // As consumer complaints have apparently mounted over unpaid hurricane losses, Florida’s top insurance regulator and some lawmakers have signaled new scrutiny on insurance carriers’ claims-handling...
Mar 6 2025 // Florida legislative leaders, facing increasing pressure from the public and the press, this week pledged to investigate property insurers’ financial structures. And bills filed before the 2025 Legislature began this...
Mar 5 2025 // March 24 will mark two years since Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed tort reform measures into law. HB 837 took direct aim at an epidemic of litigation, the factor most responsible for steep increases in...
Mar 5 2025 // The steady growth in excess and surplus lines’ business in Florida appears to be leveling off, another sign that the insurance market in the state is settling down after years of turbulence.“January’s...
Mar 4 2025 // Florida insurance regulators have asked companies to hand over extensive amounts of data on people’s pharmacy claims, including personal information and prescription drug usage, an unusual move for a state regulator...
Mar 3 2025 // Florida’s chief financial officer, now a candidate for Congress, is backing a bill that would set up a trust fund that would help fund home hardening grants for years to come.Senate Bill 1466, sponsored by state Sen....
Feb 28 2025 // The man who has been as much of a litigation nemesis to Florida property and casualty insurers as anyone is launching a new political party and may even run for governor next year.Orlando-based trial lawyer John Morgan,...
Feb 28 2025 // Two major, publicly traded Florida insurance companies reported fourth-quarter earnings, with the Baldwin Insurance Group, Inc. (BWIN) noting a loss of $20.2 million in its fourth quarter.On a per-share basis, the...
Feb 28 2025 // A Florida appeals court has re-affirmed a major state Supreme Court decision, helping to answer lingering questions about whether the 2022 bad-faith litigation reform law can be applied retroactively.The answer is...
Feb 25 2025 // A Florida framing contractor has been sentenced to 48 months in prison and millions of dollars in fines and restitution after he failed to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and ignored safety practices, leading...
Feb 24 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s new attorney general filed a federal court lawsuit against Target on Thursday, claiming the discount store chain “misled investors” by promoting diversity, equity and...
Feb 24 2025 // As consumer complaints have apparently mounted over unpaid hurricane losses, Florida’s top insurance regulator and some lawmakers are signaling new scrutiny on insurance carriers’ claims-handling and other...
Feb 20 2025 // One person in Texas and four people in Florida, including a previously licensed insurance broker, face insurance fraud charges in separate schemes, local and federal authorities said Wednesday.In Hialeah, Florida, three...
Feb 20 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Days after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed off on immigration legislation he says is the toughest in the nation, Florida’s Republican leaders have named the director of the new state board of...
Feb 14 2025 // Gainesville, Florida-based The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers, calling itself one of the fastest-growing privately held brokerages in the country, is set to grow a little more this year, thanks to a $100 million line of...
Feb 12 2025 // Municipal bonds sold by the state of Florida are poised to become much scarcer.That’s because Governor Ron DeSantis plans to pay down $1.7 billion of tax-supported debt as part of his budget proposal for the fiscal...
Feb 11 2025 // Florida’s chief financial officer has named a Pensacola lawyer and businessman to the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Board of Governors.Frank White, general counsel for one of northwest Florida’s largest car...
Feb 10 2025 // Just as many Florida property insurers had hoped to see a boost to the private market with a maximum rate increase for Citizens Property Insurance Corp., state regulators have slashed the rate hike by more than half.After...