All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has issued a Consent Order (see below) approving, with additional requirements, Anthem, Inc.’s (Anthem) application to acquire 100 percent of the issued and...
Apr 4 2016 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced 10 arrests following a multi-agency undercover workers’ compensation sting in Manatee County.According to a statement...
Apr 4 2016 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott made it known that his choice for the next Florida insurance commissioner would not be State Representative Bill Hager.“I won’t second it,” was Scott’s quick response to...
Apr 4 2016 // Following the 2016 Florida Legislative Session’s failure to pass essential assignment of benefit (AOB) reforms, the insurance industry and Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are working in tandem with the Florida...
Apr 4 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board of governors approved recommendations last month aimed at reducing the impact of what it calls skyrocketing water-loss claims that could reverse progress made in returning...
Apr 4 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr issued a cease and desist order against Tampa, Fla.-based Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC, dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), alleging the company is using fraudulent and...
Apr 1 2016 // Some residents of the Florida Panhandle who sustained damage during two tornadoes that touched down in February will not receive individual assistance through FEMA.The News Journal reports that the Federal Emergency...
Apr 1 2016 // About 20 residents in six homes at a mobile home park along Florida’s Gulf Coast were evacuated Wednesday after a 60-foot-wide, 35-foot-deep hole opened in the ground.The residents at the Tarpon Shores Mobile Home...
Mar 29 2016 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott made it known Tuesday that his choice for the next Florida insurance commissioner would not be State Representative Bill Hager.“I won’t second it,” was Scott’s quick response...
Mar 28 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has issued a cease and desist order against Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings LLC., dba Health Insurance Innovations (HII), a Tampa, Florida-based company, alleging the company has used...
Mar 25 2016 // For the first time in 13 years, Florida is preparing to appoint a new insurance commissioner. The pool of 55 candidates has been whittled down to just two.Per recommendation of the Florida Cabinet, Jeffrey Bragg and...
Mar 24 2016 // Businesses in Panama City Beach, Fla., say new laws aimed at cutting down excessive spring break drinking are also hurting sales and forcing layoffs.Bars, restaurants, scooter shops and other businesses say they’re...
Mar 23 2016 // A Florida-based homeowners insurer has beefed up its flood insurance offering with the launch of a new flood-coverage only company called TypTap.The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Homeowners Choice Property...
Mar 21 2016 // A jury in Florida awarded wrestling star Hulk Hogan an eye-popping $115 million on Friday in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media – and the award isn’t Hogan’s final round in the suit.Next up, the jury...
Mar 21 2016 // Following the 2016 Florida Legislative Session’s failure to pass essential assignment of benefit (AOB) reforms, the insurance industry and Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are working in tandem with the Florida...
Mar 21 2016 // Looking for new sales and opportunities in 2016? Here are a few of the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry this year.Sky’s...
Mar 21 2016 // Risk Strategies, Lester BrokerageRisk Strategies Co., a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, has acquired Lester Brokerage, an independent agency in Englewood Cliffs, N.J....
Mar 21 2016 // Florida lawmakers will not provide resolution for two controversial issues currently facing the Florida insurance industry, this year at least.At the close of the 2016 Florida legislative session on March 11, attempts to...
Mar 21 2016 // John Q. Doyle, who was ousted from the executive ranks of American International Group in a management shakeup in December, is joining global insurance broker Marsh as president, effective April 15.In this newly-created...
Mar 18 2016 // An electrical malfunction started a barn fire that killed 12 horses and injured 11 at an equestrian complex in suburban Palm Beach, Florida, investigators said Wednesday.Palm Beach County fire investigators concluded the...