All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2016 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an emergency rule requiring public notification of pollution events within 24 hours, a move that comes after it took weeks to notify local residents about a fertilizer plant that leaked...
Sep 27 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has given contingent approval for an overall statewide workers’ compensation rate increase of 14.5 percent to take effect Dec. 1, 2016. The rate increase is in...
Sep 27 2016 // Brightway Insurance has expanded its network of insurance retail locations in Jacksonville, Fla., with the addition of insurance agent and new Brightway Agency Owner Anne Stanford, who opened the company’s newest...
Sep 26 2016 // A federal lawsuit was filed late Thursday by three central Florida residents who live near a fertilizer plant where more than 200 million gallons of contaminated wastewater leaked into one of the state’s main...
Sep 23 2016 // Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to investigate a sewage spill in St. Petersburg.Heavy rain during Hurricane Hermine overloaded the city’s sewer systems, sending millions...
Sep 22 2016 // Dozens of residents who live near a Florida fertilizer plant that has leaked more than 200 million gallons of contaminated water into a drinking water aquifer have asked for their water wells to be tested for...
Sep 22 2016 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has added a new property broker, Aaron Reilly, to the Sarasota, Fla., office. Reilly will be developing new business opportunities throughout the country in various property and casualty...
Sep 21 2016 // Authorities declared a victory Monday in stemming further infections of Zika in Miami’s Wynwood arts district, but continued to caution pregnant women about traveling to the city and surrounding areas out of concerns...
Sep 20 2016 // The rate impact of recent Florida Supreme Court rulings on the state’s workers’ compensation system is currently in the hands of regulators, as the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) decides on the National...
Sep 20 2016 // Brightway Insurance has named Courtney Heidelberg as its public relations and communications manager. Heidelberg brings 16 years of experience as a professional communicator to Brightway, where she leads communications...
Sep 19 2016 // Samsung Electronics Co. was sued on Friday by a Florida man who said he suffered severe burns after his Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploded in his front pants pocket.The lawsuit by Jonathan Strobel may be the first in the...
Sep 19 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved a 6.4 percent overall rate increase for 2017 for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. homeowners’ multiperil policyholders across the state. According to Citizens, the...
Sep 19 2016 // The 11-year hurricane drought in Florida is officially over. While preliminary damage estimates and claims are still trickling in from Hurricane Hermine, Florida’s first named hurricane since 2005, the consensus from...
Sep 19 2016 // Tampa, Fla.-based Franklin Street has hired Nancy Sheinberg as vice president of Insurance Services. With 30 years of commercial insurance experience, Sheinberg is responsible for managing all hands-on operational features...
Sep 19 2016 // Data from the 14 U.S. surplus lines service/stamping offices show they have processed almost $13.1 billion in insurance premium filings in the first half of 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas...
Sep 16 2016 // An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended, and said he was embarrassed by the crime, according to an arrest affidavit...
Sep 15 2016 // Business owners are anxious for federal health officials to lift a travel advisory warning pregnant women and their partners to avoid parts of Miami and South Beach that have been identified as zones of active transmission...
Sep 14 2016 // Florida homeowners’ insurer Olympus Insurance Co., a leading Florida homeowners insurer, has promoted Bradley Burton to executive vice president of Underwriting and Business Development.In his new role, Burton will...
Sep 13 2016 // A dozen states still use no-fault auto insurance to cover the medical expenses of crash victims.Michigan House members returned to work last week to decide whether they’ll give the state’s motorists a break on...
Sep 13 2016 // Brightway, Riverside has added Adam Plante to its Jacksonville, Fla., location.Plante has experience in contracts and sales and earned his law degree from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and a...