All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 14 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved the removal of up to 93,000 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. as part of the state’s...
Jan 13 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has reached settlement agreements with more than 1,650 Florida homeowners to end litigation on sinkhole repair cases that was delaying critical repairs to their properties.As of Dec. 15,...
Jan 13 2015 // Proponents of medical marijuana have begun an encore campaign for legalization in the state of Florida, filing a rewritten ballot measure just two months after one narrowly failed to pass. Backers of the constitutional...
Jan 12 2015 // Faced with a rising number of consumer complaints, Florida’s state-backed property insurer has announced a series of changes to its takeout program. The news comes as the insurer said it is highly unlikely to need...
Jan 12 2015 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger states, according to a report from the state’s insurance...
Jan 12 2015 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2015 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Jan 9 2015 // Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co., a regional property carrier providing homeowners, renters, condominium and fire coverage in five states, has appointed industry veteran Douglas W. Reynolds as president and...
Jan 9 2015 // Florida’s attempt to lower the cost of personal injury protection (PIP) automobile coverage is making progress as insurers’ rates have declined due in part to lower losses and fewer fraudulent claims.The...
Jan 7 2015 // The federal agency that provides grants to states following a major catastrophe is under fire for providing Florida residents an estimated $177 million in funds that should have been covered by private insurers.A recent...
Jan 6 2015 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer is lowering the amount of coverage it provides for high-value properties from $1 million to $900,000, per a 2013 law change.Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is implementing...
Jan 5 2015 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited said it has acquired the assets of Smith Watson Parker Insurance, a Hollywood, Florida-based independent insurance brokerage.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed....
Dec 31 2014 // A law banning physicians from dispensing certain strong opioids discouraged the doctors from prescribing those drugs at all, according to a new study, which also found that the doctors dispensed weaker nonsteroidal...
Dec 31 2014 // A Florida equestrian center where 22 horses were poisoned by tainted feed has reached a settlement with the company that produced and sold the feed.Two horses had to be euthanized last Friday, bringing the death toll at...
Dec 31 2014 // In 2014, Southeast readers of InsuranceJournal.com made news about Florida insurers, courts and politics along with North Carolina storms and homeowners insurance among the most popular stories of the year. With an...
Dec 24 2014 // Pasquale Vaglio, a retired New York City policeman and Korean War veteran, was on the cruise of a lifetime with 18 family members in the summer of 2001 aboard Royal Caribbean’s “Explorer of the Seas.”...