All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 5 2017 // A lightning strike set a Florida apartment building on fire, forcing 38 people to evacuate. Fire officials said the fire started Friday in Tampa and left 24 apartment units without electricity. Hillsborough County Fire and...
Sep 5 2017 // SUNZ Insurance Company, a large deductible workers’ compensation carrier based in Florida, has appointed Gene R. Levine to the position of senior vice president – underwriting. Levine will report directly to...
Sep 4 2017 // Hurricane Irma, barreling toward the Caribbean and the southern United States, was upgraded to a powerful Category 4 storm on Monday as islands in its path braced for a possible onslaught.Hurricane advisories were issued...
Sep 4 2017 // Just after being downgraded by ratings agency Demotech, Florida-based insurer Sawgrass Mutual Insurance Company revealed it was placed under administrative supervision by the Florida Office of Insurance...
Sep 4 2017 // Aug. 24, 1992 was anything but a typical Monday for Robert Reynolds as he drove through debris-filled roads and devastation on the way to his family-run agency then located just north of Homestead, Fla.Hurricane Andrew had...
Aug 31 2017 // Just under a year since Florida workers’ compensation rates shot up by 14.5 percent, Florida businesses may get some relief in their workers’ comp premiums.The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)...
Aug 31 2017 // Florida is confronting an uproar over whether the state’s highway patrol is requiring troopers to meet ticket quotas for drivers, including millions of tourists each year who crowd its interstate highways.Top state...
Aug 29 2017 // A tornado damaged buildings and cars and toppled trees in Florida but no one was hurt. The Bradenton Herald reports that the tornado struck Saturday night in Manatee County with winds of 70 mph (112 kph). The newspaper...
Aug 28 2017 // Though Florida hasn’t suffered a category 5 storm since Hurricane Andrew hit the north Miami area on Aug. 24 1992, the risk of such a storm has not gone away or even declined. In fact, the state’s risk of...
Aug 25 2017 // Authorities in Florida say an auto theft suspect who wanted to watch the moon blot out the sun instead has a blot on his record.The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page that Jocsan Rosado was...
Aug 24 2017 // Aug. 24, 1992 was anything but a typical Monday for Robert Reynolds as he drove through debris-filled roads and devastation on the way to his family-run agency then located just north of Homestead, Fla.Hurricane Andrew had...
Aug 23 2017 // Just a day after being downgraded by ratings agency Demotech, Florida-based insurer Sawgrass Mutual Insurance Company has revealed it is under administrative supervision by the Florida Office of Insurance...
Aug 22 2017 // An investigation led by the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) Bureau of Insurance Fraud has led to the arrest of a Miami insurance agent for attempting to evade a higher insurance premium for his assisted...
Aug 21 2017 // Almost 25 years have passed since a Category 5 hurricane struck south of Miami, and the city’s vulnerability to catastrophic storm damage has grown exponentially, according to a new insurance underwriters’...
Aug 18 2017 // The head of the Florida agency that oversees state’s highway patrol insists troopers don’t have ticket quotas.Terry Rhodes on Tuesday told Gov. Rick Scott and members of the state Cabinet that her agency is...
Aug 17 2017 // Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this year, a report released Tuesday by police said.Police in Jupiter,...
Aug 15 2017 // A major Florida city is planning to get rid of its red-light cameras after data show the devices haven’t reduced car accidents.The Florida Times-Union reports that Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams announced the...
Aug 15 2017 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) announced it will conduct a rate hearing on Aug. 31, 2017 to receive public comment on Citizens’ proposed rate changes for its business in the Coastal Account (CA),...
Aug 14 2017 // Geologists are studying a massive Florida sinkhole that destroyed two homes and rendered five others uninhabitable.Experts might ever know exactly what caused Pasco County’s largest sinkhole in decades, but a team of...
Aug 10 2017 // A new State of the Climate report released today by the American Meteorological Society has confirmed that 2016 surpassed 2015 as the warmest year in 137 years of recordkeeping.The report was compiled by the National...