All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2018 // Authorities in Florida say Hurricane Michael has killed at least 29 people in the state, bringing the overall death toll to 39.Florida Emergency Management Division spokesman Alberto Moscoso says the state toll stood at 29...
Oct 24 2018 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Fla., based insurance distribution holding company, has completed the formation of its partnership with the Medicare Division of Trilogy Financial Group, a financial agency based in...
Oct 23 2018 // Jurors have awarded $25 million to the parents of a University of Florida student who was run over and killed by a garbage truck near campus. The Gainesville Sun reports that an Alachua County jury awarded $12.5 million...
Oct 22 2018 // It’s the greatest need after a hurricane and sometimes the hardest one to fulfill: Electricity.Almost two weeks after Hurricane Michael smashed into the Florida Panhandle on a path of destruction that led all the way...
Oct 22 2018 // Trees brought down by Hurricane Michael’s ferocious winds took a heavy toll on life, property and the timber industry in the heavily forested Florida Panhandle, where $1.3 billion in timber was lost, authorities said...
Oct 22 2018 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has hired industry veteran Phillip Lane to its team as it adds locations in Brevard County, Fla. Lane joins the team as a risk management consultant. Prior to joining IOA, Lane was a...
Oct 19 2018 // More than a week after Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle, authorities are reporting three more deaths from the Category 4 storm as residents returning to their homes try to piece together their lives...
Oct 19 2018 // Flood specialist JBA Risk Management has rolled out its high-resolution flood maps and associated pricing data for the continental United States starting with the State of Florida. These new maps are designed to enable...
Oct 18 2018 // In an effort to keep the Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis from further worsening in the state, Florida’s insurance industry, regulators and consumer advocates are on high alert for AOB activity in the wake...
Oct 17 2018 // You know that Hurricane Michael came through the Florida panhandle as a powerful Category 4 storm. In fact, when it made landfall, it was just 2 mph from being considered a Category 5 storm. It is the most powerful...
Oct 17 2018 // Hurricane Michael’s devastation could spur policymakers to better prepare vulnerable communities for the effects of climate change.The images of entire towns in Florida’s panhandle all but erased by storm...
Oct 17 2018 // Hurricane Michael failed to break up a patchy and toxic algae bloom that has lingered in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida’s shoreline for the last year, experts said Monday, meaning the red tide outbreak could continue...
Oct 17 2018 // Unlike in South Florida, homes in the state’s Panhandle did not have tighter building codes until just 11 years ago; it was once argued that acres of forests would provide the region with a natural barrier against...
Oct 16 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty, Inc. has acquired Allstar Assurance, headquartered in Weston, Fla.Allstar Assurance has been serving south Florida for over 14 years offering multi-line property and casualty insurance...
Oct 16 2018 // Florida’s insurance regulator has issued an emergency order that ensures “additional protections” to Florida policyholders – including freezing any rate hikes for 90 days – to support recovery efforts...
Oct 15 2018 // Dozens of people remained missing on Sunday in Florida Panhandle communities reduced to ruins by Hurricane Michael as rescuers said they expected the death toll to rise and survivors grappled with power outages and...
Oct 15 2018 // Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) estimates insured losses from Hurricane Michael will be close to $8 billion, according to the KCC high resolution U.S. Hurricane Reference Model.This estimate includes...
Oct 15 2018 // Losses to the insurance industry from Hurricane Michael, a Category 4 storm that hit the Florida Panhandle before continuing a path of destruction through several other Southeast states, will be substantial but not enough...
Oct 15 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has tapped Josh Close as client services coordinator in the firm’s Birmingham, Ala.-based national energy construction practice, reporting to EPIC Principal Brian Tanner.Close...
Oct 15 2018 // Two recent decisions from the Florida Supreme Court that reversed rulings by the same District Court of Appeal will have a serious impact on the insurance industry.The consequential rulings came on Sept. 20, 2018 in the...