All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 12 2015 // Lawsuits filed around the U.S. seeking damages for allegedly defective auto air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp. have been consolidated before a Miami federal judge.A federal panel on multidistrict litigation...
Feb 12 2015 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced nine arrests were made last month for personal injury protection (PIP) fraud in Miami. Charged in eight separate cases involving seven staged accidents, the...
Feb 11 2015 // President of Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Scott Wallace, plans to retire at the end of May 2015 after 37 years in the insurance industry, according to a statement from Homeowner’s...
Feb 11 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved the removal of up to 78,897 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by the following four...
Feb 9 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s Board of Governors has approved a contract to consolidate the company’s information technology and other functions at the EverBank Center in downtown Jacksonville, Fla.The...
Feb 5 2015 // Florida’s insurance commissioner appears to have survived in his appointed post for now as a move by the state’s newly re-elected governor to oust him has failed to win support of the other state officials...
Jan 28 2015 // Palm Beach County officials have fined the ride-hailing service Uber and six of its drivers more than $44,000. The Palm Beach Post reports the county conducted stings last week in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, issuing...
Jan 27 2015 // Florida Governor Rick Scott is looking for a replacement for the state’s top insurance regulator and has already contacted a potential candidate from Louisiana.Scott’s office has confirmed that the governor...
Jan 26 2015 // Seventeen years after it started, a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute between the state of Florida and a Nebraska company continues to meander through the courts.The Nebraska Supreme Court has already ruled on aspects...
Jan 26 2015 // Florida’s insurance regulators have determined that a ridesharing company’s automobile commercial liability policy meets state regulations, but legislative action is likely necessary to clarify whether that...
Jan 26 2015 // The now infamous computer hacks infuriated consumers who had personal information compromised and Hollywood honchos who had embarrassing emails made public.But headline-grabbing computer intrusions are only a fraction of...
Jan 26 2015 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Swift was named to the additional post of chairman in a transition that occurred earlier than the insurer had initially planned. Swift, 53,...
Jan 26 2015 // Florida’s insurers are breathing easier after the state’s high court ruled that the state’s workers’ compensation law bars injured workers from seeking additional benefits in civil court.The Florida...
Jan 26 2015 // Florida’s attempt to lower the cost of personal injury protection (PIP) automobile coverage is progressing as insurers’ rates have declined due in part to lower losses and fewer fraudulent claims.The Florida...
Jan 23 2015 // A national consumer group is urging Florida to keep its current insurance regulator, a man the group says is one of the best regulators in the country but who is rumored to be under pressure to resign by the Scott...
Jan 21 2015 // Testifying this week before the Florida House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, Office of Insurance Regulation Deputy Chief of Staff Monte Stevens echoed much of what has been reported in recent months about...
Jan 20 2015 // Florida’s insurance regulator’s tenure could be coming to an end after more than a decade as the newly re-elected governor looks to shake up his administration by replacing the heads of state agencies.Rumors...
Jan 20 2015 // Hylant, one of the largest privately-owned insurance brokers in the nation, said that The Gardner Group, an independent employee benefits agency based in Neptune Beach, Fla., will be merging into its Jacksonville...
Jan 16 2015 // Florida-based American Professional Liability Underwriters, Inc. (AmPro) has added Gary Smid as a senior broker to its new office opening in Tampa. Smid has more than 18 years of insurance underwriting experience,...
Jan 16 2015 // Florida’s insurers are breathing easier after the state’s high court ruled that the workers’ compensation law bars injured workers from seeking additional benefits in civil court.The Florida Supreme Court...