All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 12 2018 // SUNZ Holdings, headquartered in Bradenton, Fla., has acquired Ascential Care Partners, LLC, a national URAC accredited case management and utilization review company.The purchase and associated capital contribution...
Jun 8 2018 // Officials say the number of boating accidents in Florida is rising.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission last month released its annual boating accident report that showed that there was a nearly 14 percent...
Jun 8 2018 // Floridians allowed to use medical marijuana are one step closer to being able to smoke it.Leon County circuit court Judge Karen Gievers on Tuesday lifted a stay on her May 25 ruling that the Florida Legislature’s...
Jun 7 2018 // Assured Risk Cover, provider of StormPeace residential parametric insurance, has announced that former Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has joined its board of advisors. McCarty served as Florida’s first...
Jun 7 2018 // Like thousands of other Floridians, I recently received my homeowner’s insurance renewal statement only to learn that my premium was increasing by a double-digit percentage – nearly $600 annually. But like most...
Jun 6 2018 // Whether a claim arises out of medical negligence and is subject to the presuit screening requirements of Chapter 766 of the Florida Statutes is a question legal practitioners and courts alike have struggled with for...
Jun 5 2018 // A Florida man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in an arson insurance fraud scheme that spanned multiple Florida counties and was ordered to pay $1.9 million towards restitution to the more than 14...
Jun 4 2018 // Florida’s governor and Legislature promised a dizzying array of fixes following the devastation of last year’s hurricanes. But heading into a new storm season, the state has enacted only a few changes – the...
Jun 4 2018 // American Traditions Insurance Co. (ATIC) has merged with its affiliate Modern USA Insurance Co. The two companies were launched under similar ownership shortly after the 2005 hurricane season to provide additional...
Jun 4 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurers are managing their premiums dollars better than they have in years, but those premium dollars are stagnating even as employment and wages are rising.In 2017, for the fourth consecutive...
Jun 1 2018 // Allen Owen, the mayor of Missouri City, Texas, wants to do more to protect his town from the next disaster. But the city hasn’t gotten any of the roughly $1 million in federal disaster funds he said it’s owed...
Jun 1 2018 // Authorities say at least two people were injured when a crane collapsed on two homes in a Florida neighborhood.Lauderhill Fire Rescue Capt. Jerry Gonzalez says the crane was being used to put up Florida Power & Light...
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
May 31 2018 // Texas and Louisiana are among the top three states for potential storm surge losses at the start of the 2018 hurricane season, which begins on June 1.That’s according to Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, a provider...
May 31 2018 // A large fire at a Florida condominium complex has destroyed at least 10 units.The Martin County sheriff’s office says a section of the Cedar Pointe Villages complex in Stuart was engulfed by flames on Monday night....
May 30 2018 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFSAT) have been deployed across the state to protect Floridians from post-storm fraud that could occur in the aftermath of Tropical...
May 29 2018 // Storm Alberto weakened to a subtropical depression, moving across central Alabama after making landfall in the Florida Panhandle and bringing heavy rains that threaten the U.S. South with economic losses of $1...
May 29 2018 // Florida’s ban that prevents medical marijuana patients from smoking their cannabis has gone up in smoke.Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers on Friday ruled that a state’s ban on smokable cannabis is...
May 28 2018 // Subtropical Storm Alberto lost strength as it came ashore near Laguna Beach in Florida Monday, bringing heavy rains that threaten the U.S. South with economic losses of $1 billion.Alberto was 15 miles (24 kilometers) from...
May 25 2018 // Meet Alberto, the first named storm of 2018.The sub-tropical storm off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is expected to bring heavy rain to western Cuba and much of Florida early next week, the National Hurricane Center in...