All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 27 2024 // A board appointed by Ron DeSantis to oversee the municipal authority that governs Walt Disney Co. in Florida has voted to settle a state lawsuit against the company. The board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight...
Mar 26 2024 // Call it the mystery of the broken hips.In 2017, 36-year-old Michael Barber attempted to take his own life by swallowing four types of medications. He then had a change of heart and called 9-1-1. He was conscious when...
Mar 26 2024 // Atlas Insurance has named Jared Hawkins and Michael Howard partners in the Sarasota-based agency.Howard is a third-generation insurance agent at the firm and Hawkins is a second-generation agent who specializes in...
Mar 25 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two crew members on a Holland America cruise ship died during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line said.The unidentified crew members died Friday...
Mar 22 2024 // Florida’s beleaguered property insurance market is starting to look normal again, with the top insurers in the state showing a collective profit for the first time in seven years, S&P Global Market Intelligence...
Mar 20 2024 // The CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has denied that corporation representatives have been unresponsive to Congressional requests for financial information, in the wake of unsettling comments from Gov. Ron DeSantis...
Mar 20 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police believe was set by a mentally ill homeless man who previously confronted the rabbi and others.Rabbi...
Mar 20 2024 // Insurers in Florida can can contemplate potentially lower loss costs on liquor liability policies after a recent state Supreme Court ruling that clarified when bars and restaurants can be held partially versus completely...
Mar 19 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Insurance licenses can be hard to get and keep, even for those with the most pristine backgrounds. So, what’s an insurance producer to do if they find themselves...
Mar 18 2024 // Six months after a federal appeals court upheld a $12 million verdict against a waste-hauling company in a crash that killed four Spanish women in the Florida keys, a jury has found that the firm’s insurer did not...
Mar 18 2024 // Full-time Florida residents and snowbirds aren’t the only ones having trouble obtaining insurance on their condominiums. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York Mayor and longtime attorney for Donald Trump, has told a...
Mar 18 2024 // Renting or buying a boat and keeping it in a storage facility in states like Florida is pricey, adding up to a few thousand dollars in monthly rent, sometimes equaling the cost of a high-end boat itself. For those boat...
Mar 18 2024 // “Boeing must commit to real and profound improvements. … Making foundational change will require a sustained effort from Boeing’s leadership, and we are going to hold them accountable every step of the way,...
Mar 18 2024 // King Insurance Partners, Mehta Insurance AgencyFlorida-based King Insurance Partners acquired Mehta Insurance Agency, located in Absecon, New Jersey. Mehta Insurance Agency’s offerings include business, flood and...
Mar 18 2024 // When Allstate’s Florida unit, Castle Key Indemnity Co., entered the surging condominium insurance market in 2020, it looked like it had made a smart bet: Within two years, the carrier had added no fewer than 123,000...
Mar 18 2024 // Condominium sales and prices in Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa and other parts of Florida have dropped over the past year, largely due to the soaring cost of property insurance and association fees, according to Redfin, a...
Mar 15 2024 // Do motorist-assistance systems like GM’s OnStar feed data to auto insurers, resulting in higher premiums for some drivers?A south Florida man says indeed, they do, and has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...
Mar 14 2024 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out $364 million on flood claims from Hurricane Idalia, the storm that swamped part of Florida in August. That’s a fraction of the $3.2 billion NFIP paid after Hurricane...
Mar 13 2024 // A Broward County jury has decided that the Cleveland Clinic Florida should pay almost $32 million to the estate of a man who was not put in intensive care after suffering septic shock and who later died.The jury found the...
Mar 13 2024 // TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. (HRTG) on Monday reported earnings of $30.9 million in its fourth quarter, more than double what it saw in Q4 2022. The Tampa, Florida-based company said it had profit...