All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2016 // Police say an Uber driver fatally shot a would-be robber who tried to ambush him near an upscale South Florida mall.Aventura police spokesman Chris Goranitis told local media that the driver had picked up a passenger about...
Dec 20 2016 // Florida-Based managing general underwriter Vertus Insurance Partners has launched a supplemental insurance policy targeting homeowners in hurricane prone states. Available now in Florida, CAT4Home will provide complete...
Dec 19 2016 // Florida’s workers’ compensation rate increase of 14.5 percent will remain in effect while a Florida appeals court reviews a legal challenge to the state’s recent ratemaking process.The First District...
Dec 19 2016 // Columbia, S.C.-native Mark Askins, has joined Iroquois South as a regional manager for South Carolina and western North Carolina.Askins spent more than 20 years with The Hartford, most recently as their Richmond, Va.,...
Dec 19 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...
Dec 16 2016 // Before McCarty announced his decision to leave office, he initiated dialogue with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) over the National Flood Insurance Program’s rate making. Citing the fact that the flood...
Dec 15 2016 // Kevin McCarty’s decision to resign as Florida’s insurance commissioner at the beginning of the year after 13 years in the position rocked the state’s insurance world. It also set the stage for a political...
Dec 14 2016 // Property and casualty veteran Mark LaBour has joined Alliant’s growing Florida practice. As vice president within the company’s Alliant Americas division, LaBour will deploy targeted risk management and...
Dec 14 2016 // In September, Hurricane Hermine broke Florida’s hurricane drought that had lasted since 2005. The category 1 storm hit the Florida Panhandle, bringing significant storm surge to the Tampa Bay area before slowly...
Dec 13 2016 // Assignment of benefits abuse has become such a well-known problem in the state of Florida this year that it now just goes by the nickname “AOB.”The issue with AOB comes from when a policyholder suffers a loss,...
Dec 12 2016 // It’s been a tumultuous year for the Florida insurance industry.It would seem the biggest story would be the end of Florida’s hurricane drought as the state got hit by not one, but two hurricanes this year, the...
Dec 12 2016 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of MDW Insurance Group, Inc. and its affiliates Agents Insurance Resources, Inc. and A.I.R. Insurance Marketing, Inc. (MDW). Terms of the...
Dec 9 2016 // Officials with a fund created from donations for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting say they will distribute $29.5 million on 305 claims when the process is completed.Officials with OneOrlando Fund said Dec. 2 that...
Dec 8 2016 // Florida lawmakers can expect substantial pressure to tackle the assignment of benefits (AOB) and water loss claims crisis from the state’s insurer of last resort when Florida’s legislative session begins early...
Dec 7 2016 // Authorities in a central Florida county are looking for a thief who stole more than 400 newly-planted orange trees from a grove. Orlando television station WFTV reported Monday that Polk County Sheriff’s Office...
Dec 6 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of policyholders seeking coverage on claims where there is the possibility of multiple concurrent losses but at least one of the losses is covered under their policy.Though the...
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Dec 2 2016 // Acentria Insurance has expanded its presence in South Florida through a merged partnership with iSure Insurance Brokers, located in Miami. Established in 1984, iSure Insurance Brokers specializes in commercial insurance,...
Dec 1 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation expressed satisfaction with its response efforts to the first hurricanes to hit Florida in more than a decade as the end of the 2016 hurricane season officially ended Nov....
Dec 1 2016 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has added Michelle Murray, who has a property and casualty background, to its office in Tampa, Fla. Murray is a Tampa native and will offer...