All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 4 2016 // Police union officials want Florida lawmakers to extend workers’ compensation to first responders with Zika.Florida Fraternal Order of Police President Bobby Jenkins said Tuesday that emergency responders should be...
Nov 1 2016 // A massive sinkhole at a fertilizer plant should be plugged by spring, months after contaminated water and waste began flowing into Florida’s main drinking water aquifer, the company said Friday.In an email to The...
Oct 28 2016 // Fortegra, a specialty insurer based in Jacksonville, Fla., and a subsidiary of Tiptree Financial Inc., has appointed Mark Rattner as executive vice president, chief underwriter, and head of product management. In this...
Oct 27 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders to file claims from Hurricane Hermine.“After productive discussions between Insurance...
Oct 27 2016 // Florida officials have reached a deal with the company responsible for a large sinkhole that resulted in millions of gallons of contaminated water pouring into a drinking water aquifer. The Florida Department of...
Oct 26 2016 // Authorities say a 67-year-old Tennessee tourist died after riding Star Tours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.The September death of the Memphis, Tennessee, man was recorded in a list of serious ride-related injuries...
Oct 26 2016 // Donald Trump says he received a $17 million insurance payment in 2005 for hurricane damage to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach. But The Associated Press has found little evidence of such large-scale damage.Two...
Oct 24 2016 // A Florida man arrested last year after police mistook doughnut glaze in his car for meth is suing the city of Orlando and a drug-testing kit company.The Orlando Sentinel reports Daniel Rushing filed a lawsuit last week,...
Oct 24 2016 // The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) elected Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Deputy Commissioner Gary West as secretary-treasurer during its annual membership meeting in July....
Oct 24 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has issued a final order granting approval to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) for an overall combined statewide average rate increase of 14.5 percent....
Oct 20 2016 // Florida’s streak of dodging hurricanes is over, but the state-created fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a storm remains in strong financial shape. Anne Bert, the chief operating officer of the...
Oct 19 2016 // CBIZ has added three professionals to lead the new CBIZ Insurance Services, Inc. practice in Sarasota, Fla.Keith Mercier joins CBIZ as president of CBIZ Insurance Services, Florida, West Coast. In his new role with CBIZ,...
Oct 17 2016 // CNA has appointed John Kaas to senior vice president and Mid-Atlantic zone officer.In this role, Kaas will be responsible for advancing the strategic direction of the territory, which includes CNA’s branches in...
Oct 17 2016 // Health officials announced Thursday a new Zika zone in Miami – a setback less than a month after declaring the nearby Wynwood neighborhood cleared of the virus following aggressive mosquito spraying.Five people have been...
Oct 14 2016 // It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is just...
Oct 12 2016 // Maureen Miller was among the 2 million people ordered to evacuate coastal areas in the Southeast ahead of Hurricane Matthew. Her family and their dog spent two nights in a hotel and struggled through police roadblocks to...
Oct 11 2016 // Hurricane Matthew is gone, but the disaster it unleashed will slowly unfold this week as rivers across eastern North Carolina rise to levels unseen since a similar deluge flooded thousands of homes and businesses during...
Oct 11 2016 // Global law firm Dentons has named John J. Sarchio as a partner in its insurance regulatory practice.In this role, he will advise clients on insurance industry mergers, acquisitions and financings, reinsurance transactions,...
Oct 11 2016 // DUAL North America has announced that Jim Giordano will join the company as a non-executive director.The company said in this role Giordano will contribute to the DUAL Board in areas relating to corporate strategy,...
Oct 11 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has issued a final order granting approval to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) for an overall combined statewide average rate increase of 14.5 percent....