All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc, the global risk advisory, re/insurance broking, and human capital and benefits firm, has opened its Operational Center of Excellence in Tampa, Fla. Establishing the Center is part of...
Dec 17 2015 // Kevin McCarty Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty was presented with the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies (LAAIA) “Insurance Man of the Year” Award on Dec. 4. According to the...
Dec 16 2015 // When Florida’s Office of Compassionate Care named five nurseries to grow and distribute medical marijuana in the state, many expected there would be a few challenges filed – but not the more than a dozen that had...
Dec 16 2015 // BB&T- Oswald Trippe and Company has expanded with new associates hires to its Florida offices. .Lisa Feanny has been named a personal lines sales associate for Miami. Feanny has 25 years of experience in the insurance...
Dec 11 2015 // State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of...
Dec 11 2015 // The Main Street America Group has appointed Nancy Giordano-Ramos as its vice president/head of bonds. Giordano-Ramos had been the super-regional property/casualty insurance company’s interim head of bonds since...
Dec 11 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 72,534 personal residential policies and 2,581 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. The following...
Dec 11 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 10 2015 // Normandy Insurance has hired Frank Primato has been hired as senior field underwriter. In his new position, Primato will develop and service the agency distribution network in Central Florida.Primato has more than 14 years...
Dec 9 2015 // In Citizens Property Ins. Corp. v. Perdido Sun Condominium Ass’n, Inc., 164 So.3d 663 (Fla. 2015), the Florida Supreme Court held that Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a state-created entity that provided...
Dec 9 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors on Wednesday approved a slate of policy changes to bolster oversight of water loss claims while continuing to protect policyholders who need immediate...
Dec 7 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved an overall decrease of 4.7 percent in workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida. Following the disapproval of its original rate filing request, the...
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 6 2015 // Florida’s job agency has ruled that drivers for Uber and other app companies connecting passengers with rides are not entitled employed benefits due to laid off workers. The Orlando Sentinel reports the Florida...
Dec 4 2015 // Normandy Insurance has promoted Robert Sublet to vice president of Business Development. Formerly a senior field underwriter with Normandy, Sublet’s new role will focus on accelerating Normandy’s growth.During...
Dec 2 2015 // All Risks, Ltd., a nationwide independent wholesaler, has acquired Specialty Risk Underwriters (SRU), a national program administrator based in St. Petersburg, Fla. Specialty Risk Underwriters has developed a variety of...
Dec 1 2015 // John Pollock, BB&T Insurance Services Florida regional insurance president, has been promoted to a multi-state regional leadership position. According to the company, BB&T Insurance Services is experiencing...
Dec 1 2015 // The state of Florida is marking a big milestone with the official end of the 2015 hurricane season – 10 years without a major hurricane making landfall in the state. The Miami Herald reports that the hurricane-free...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 1 2015 // The mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida, wants to waive about half of the fines Uber currently owes the county.The Miami Herald reports Mayor Carlos Gimenez is pressing commissioners to take up his proposal to legalize the...