All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mar 18 2016 // Burns & Wilcox has opened a new office in Orlando, Fla., extending the company’s footprint to three locations in Florida, which also include Daytona Beach and Tampa.Burns & Wilcox has operated in Florida for...
Mar 17 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board of governors has approved a slate of recommendations aimed at reducing the impact of what it calls skyrocketing water-loss claims that could reverse progress made in...
Mar 16 2016 // Socius Insurance Services, Inc., a management liability and property/casualty insurance wholesaler, has hired Dan Mittelmark to join its management and professional liability practice as assistant vice president. Dan will...
Mar 15 2016 // Central Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, North Florida’s Apalachicola Bay and a trio of coastal estuaries in South Florida are in the throes of ecosystem collapses that threaten sea grass, fisheries, recreation...
Mar 11 2016 // An Orlando-based hotel chain is reporting that some of its guests’ credit card information may have been breached.Rosen Hotels & Resorts Inc. said on its website that malware was installed on its payment card...
Mar 10 2016 // After a six-month reprieve, the Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission – the agency that regulates taxicabs and limousines in Florida’s fourth-largest county, which includes the City of Tampa –...
Mar 10 2016 // As a pediatrician, Dr. Judith Schaechter can ask parents of her patients all sorts of questions regarding their safety and well-being: what the child eats, whether there’s a backyard pool and whether the child gets...
Mar 9 2016 // Florida-based Rosier Insurance has collaborated with Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (DVIC) to provide on the job training for its most recent class of disabled veterans.The recent DVIC class trained at the Rosier...
Mar 9 2016 // Florida’s contentious medical marijuana legislation is headed to Gov. Rick Scott.After 21/2 hours of debate on Monday, the Senate approved a House version of a bill (HB 307) that would expand the so-called...
Mar 8 2016 // It’s looking like Florida lawmakers will not provide resolution for two controversial issues currently facing the Florida insurance industry, this year at least.With just three days left in the 2016 Florida Session,...
Mar 8 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that an artist can sue UPS in state court over two paintings removed from their shipping tube while in transit and sold by the company UPS contracts to handle its...
Mar 7 2016 // Florida’s Citizens Launches Campaign to Combat Abuse ClaimsCitizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a multi-faceted education campaign in an attempt to combat what it has called a disturbing increase of fraud...
Mar 7 2016 // Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard.The order approving the request...
Mar 7 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has expanded its nationwide Private Risk Management (PRM) practice with the hiring of Carol Wiek as vice president, private...