All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2015 // Kristine Azar The Jacksonville, Florida-based Brightway Insurance hired Kristine Azar as vice president of customer experience. Azar is responsible for Brightway’s customer experience strategies and execution through...
Aug 20 2015 // Allied American Underwriters, a subsidiary of USG Insurance Services Inc., announced that it acquired the renewal rights on several books of business from Jacksonville, Florida-based US Assure.The terms of the acquisition...
Aug 20 2015 // In his ongoing efforts to foster a competitive private flood insurance market in Florida, state Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, recently requested help from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation to obtain...
Aug 19 2015 // A 50-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, man has been sentenced to six years in prison for staging car crashes. The Florida Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Guillermo de la Vega pleaded guilty earlier this month...
Aug 19 2015 // Two Florida laws, enacted to fight prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed the first year the laws were in place, a new study...
Aug 18 2015 // The Jacksonville, Florida-based Brightway Insurance said it received $20 million in bank financing through SunTrust Bank to help fund its national expansion. Brightway is a national property/casualty insurance agency...
Aug 18 2015 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said on Aug. 14 that the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) rates for Florida may be “unfairly discriminatory” and that his office will ask for the...
Aug 17 2015 // Bauknight Insurance, an independent insurance agency in Spring Hill, Florida, promoted Steven V. Green, Jr., to vice president of operations from office manager. Green joined Bauknight Insurance in 2010. He has been in the...
Aug 17 2015 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has appointed Sha’Ron James as the state’s Insurance Consumer Advocate effective August 3. The role of Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate is to...
Aug 14 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that it will conduct a public hearing later this month to discuss Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s proposed 2016 rate changes for its business in the...
Aug 14 2015 // Therese A. Stevens SUNZ Insurance Company, a workers’ compensation insurer based in Sarasota, Florida, hired Therese A. Stevens as president. An insurance executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in the...
Aug 14 2015 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc., a property/casualty insurance holding company in Clearwater, Florida, announced that its subsidiary Heritage Property & Casualty Company (Heritage P&C) was approved to write...
Aug 13 2015 // Managing general agency Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (J&J) has acquired John Handel & Associates, Inc. (JHA), located in St. Petersburg, Fla. Under its new ownership, JHA will continue to offer the same products and...
Aug 12 2015 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesale distributor, hired Jennifer Entinger and Kim Monahan as producers in Florida. Both Entinger and Monahan came from All Risks, Ltd. and have a...
Aug 12 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced today that it has approved the removal of up to 279,357 personal residential policies and 1,500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance...
Aug 11 2015 // Shannon Decker The Villages Insurance promoted Shannon Decker to managing advisor from personal lines advisor at its Colony Plaza office in The Villages, Florida. Decker, a former employee of the local AAA office, has been...
Aug 11 2015 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Tequesta Insurance Advisors, a personal, commercial, and employee benefits insurance provider in Florida. Terms of the...
Aug 10 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrest of four South Florida arrests of individuals on charges related to their involvement in three separate personal...
Aug 7 2015 // Renewed hunts for oil in sensitive Florida ecosystems have environmental groups raising questions about the state’s regulation of the oil and gas industry.A Miami company, Kanter Real Estate LLC, has submitted a...
Aug 6 2015 // New rules changing the way disputed sinkhole claims are handled in Florida as part of the state’s Sinkhole Neutral Evaluation Program have been approved and took effect July 27.The main changes to the consumer...