All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Nov 20 2017 // The aftermath of this year’s hurricanes includes massive reconstruction across the impacted areas, which in turn creates an increased possibility for construction defect claims that would affect the liability...
Nov 20 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president.Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years...
Nov 17 2017 // A major chicken processing plant that has been cited for polluting the Suwannee River settled a lawsuit on Wednesday that was brought by environmental groups in Florida.Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. settled the suit with...
Nov 17 2017 // Even the workplace has to adapt to the warming world. As climate change creates more intense storms, companies have started preparing for work disruptions due to extreme weather.In a sign of the times, Fog Creek, a...
Nov 16 2017 // Two months after Hurricane Irma’s storm surge slammed through tiny Everglades City, the mountains of debris that lined the streets have been reduced to scattered piles and the occasional abandoned stove or...
Nov 14 2017 // Velocity Risk Underwriters has expanded its Florida products to include HO-6 (condominium) for primary, secondary, seasonal, long-term rental, and short term rentals (minimum two days). Velocity offers an A.M. Best...
Nov 14 2017 // Authorities say a man was killed in an explosion at a Florida work site.The Palm Beach Post reports that blast occurred Friday afternoon in a Boynton Beach retirement community. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office...
Nov 13 2017 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has issued a final order granting approval to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) for a statewide overall rate level decrease of 9.5 percent and premium level...
Nov 9 2017 // Property Insurance Holdings Inc. (PIH), a specialty property and casualty insurance holding company, announced it is now licensed in Florida through its wholly owned subsidiary, Maison Insurance Company.This comes after...
Nov 9 2017 // More than 63,000 recreational boats were damaged or destroyed as a result of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, with a combined dollar damage estimate of $655 million, according to the Boat Owners Association of the...
Nov 9 2017 // RMC Group, a Naples, Fla.-based international provider of insurance, risk management, retirement and actuarial consulting services, has promoted Jessica Homan to captive administration manager. Homan joined RMC Group in...
Nov 8 2017 // Global insurance company Premier Assurance Group (PA Group), headquartered in Coral Gables, Fla., has named Karen Cordero-Fleites its director of marketing and communications. Cordero-Fleites has more than 10 years of...
Nov 7 2017 // The Florida Chamber of Commerce brought together regulators, lawmakers, insurance industry executives and other stakeholders last week for the chamber’s annual insurance summit. Through several panel discussions on...
Nov 7 2017 // As the Sunshine State continues to attract millions of visitors each year who share clogged highways with commuters traveling throughout its ever-evolving metropolitan hub, it is no surprise that Florida has embraced...
Nov 7 2017 // Jimmy Patronis is asking voters to keep him in his current job as chief financial officer.Patronis officially filed paperwork on Nov. 1 to run for the Cabinet post in 2018. The 45-year-old Patronis was appointed in June by...
Nov 6 2017 // The owner of a Florida construction company has been arrested for allegedly obtaining a fraudulent workers’ compensation policy by underreporting the number of staff he employed, the company’s annual payroll...
Nov 3 2017 // A jury has awarded the parents of a medical school student killed in a 2015 Florida crash $45 million in damages. Twenty-nine year old Raymond Astaphan was killed along Interstate 75 as he crossed paths with a flatbed...
Nov 2 2017 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has ordered a statewide overall workers’ compensation rate decrease of 9.8 percent, a slightly higher decrease than the 9.6 percent decrease filed by the National Council...
Nov 2 2017 // Boca Raton, Fla.-based Universal Insurance Services LLC, a subsidiary of Vanbridge LLC, has added Jamie Lorentz to the firm as an analyst for Corporate and Institutional Insurance.Lorentz joins Universal from...