All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 12 2017 // Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year.A federal assessment released at the end of June showed rains eliminated a dry spell that began in April 2016, the last time...
Jul 11 2017 // The Southeast has seen its fair share of natural disasters and flooding in the last several years, including two hurricanes in Florida last year – the first hurricanes to hit the state in more than a decade. But none of...
Jul 10 2017 // Tennis star Venus Williams legally entered an intersection but was cut off by another car, setting off a chain of events that seconds later resulted in a fatal crash with a third car, police say video released Friday...
Jul 10 2017 // A federal appeals court ruled that Evanston Insurance Co. doesn’t owe a $500,000 settlement that a Florida spa owner agreed to pay to a woman who suffered a stroke during a massage.The decision, issued last month in...
Jul 10 2017 // Gov. Rick Scott tapped Jimmy Patronis, a member of the Florida Public Service Commission and a former Florida State Representative, as Florida’s next chief financial officer, according to a statement from the...
Jul 10 2017 // The Main Street America Group has promoted Dan Gaynor to senior vice president and chief underwriting officer.Gaynor, who has been the super-regional property/casualty insurance company’s vice president of commercial...
Jul 10 2017 // Homeowners in South Florida, as well as in many other parts of the state, can expect another rate increase next year from the state-run insurer of last resort.Citizens Board of Governors approved recommended rates and...
Jul 7 2017 // The following letter to the editor was written by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. President, CEO and Executive Director Barry Gilway in response to an opinion piece from the Florida Association of Public Insurance...
Jul 7 2017 // Florida’s new chief financial officer is officially on the job. Flanked by family and friends, Jimmy Patronis was sworn in June 30 during a brief ceremony held in the office of Gov. Rick Scott.The Republican governor...
Jul 6 2017 // Florida is famous for its catastrophic hurricanes, however, we also have our fair share of daily claims such as fire, vandalism and water losses. Florida is now becoming known for what is referred to as the...
Jul 6 2017 // Jurors have found a Florida police chief not guilty of culpable negligence in the death of a woman who was accidentally shot during a citizens academy “shoot/don’t shoot” exercise.News outlets report that...
Jul 5 2017 // Tennis star Venus Williams is being sued by the estate of a Florida man who died after a car crash police say she caused.An attorney representing the family of Jerome Barson, 78, filed the lawsuit Friday in Palm Beach...
Jul 5 2017 // The Villages Insurance Partners (TVIP) has added Lisa Sardisco to their Commercial Risk Management Division in The Villages, Fla.The Villages Insurance Commercial Risk Management Team specializes in protecting business...
Jun 30 2017 // SUNZ Insurance Company, a large deductible workers’ compensation carrier, has promoted Karen Bolinder from director of Financial Operations to chief operating officer.In her new position, Bolinder will be responsible...
Jun 29 2017 // Authorities say an 84-year-old Florida doctor is accused of illegally distributing $10 million worth of pain pill prescriptions.Dr. Williem Ouw was arrested June 15 and held in a Fort Lauderdale jail until his release...
Jun 29 2017 // American Integrity Insurance Group (AI), a Florida-based insurance provider, has unveiled a private flood insurance option for homeowners.AI is one of nine Florida-based insurers to offer its own flood program that...
Jun 28 2017 // In its recent ruling that the cap on noneconomic damages for personal injury awards or settlements in medical negligence cases was unconstitutional, the Florida Supreme Court ignored why these caps were put into place—to...
Jun 27 2017 // Gov. Rick Scott has tapped Jimmy Patronis, a member of the Florida Public Service Commission and a former Florida State Representative, as Florida’s next chief financial officer, according to a statement from the...
Jun 26 2017 // As Congress tries to figure out how to change the federal flood insurance program to encourage more private insurer involvement, one insurer isn’t waiting to wade deeper into the private flood insurance business....
Jun 26 2017 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Friday to implement the medical marijuana amendment voters approved last year.Amendment 2, approved by 71 percent of the voters in November, took effect on Jan. 3 and required...