All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2014 // Florida’s largest private insurer has raised $19 million through a privately negotiated stock deal with an investment firm that specializes in natural catastrophe reinsurance and weather risk.Universal Holdings Inc...
Dec 15 2014 // Fort Worth, Texas-based InsureZone, a national brokerage and agency network, has launched operations in Florida. The new operation, Florida InsureZone Direct (IZD), is targeting small-to-midsized insurance agencies,...
Dec 15 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Hilary Segura and Logan McFaddin to its state government relations team.Segura and McFaddin assume regional staff duties overseeing states in the...
Dec 15 2014 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved an overall decrease of 5.2 percent in workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida, the first decrease in four years. As expected, The National Council on...
Dec 15 2014 // The Florida Supreme Court is considering whether to declare the state’s workers’ compensation attorney fee schedule unconstitutional.The court recently heard arguments in a case (Castellanos v. Next Door...
Dec 15 2014 // Data and analytics provider CoreLogic has named Lindene Patton global head of hazard product development for its insurance and spatial solutions business.Patton will lead development and research analytics for natural...
Dec 11 2014 // 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...
Dec 9 2014 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 132,441 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. as part of the...
Dec 9 2014 // After a woman’s vehicle struck and killed a black bear on a road in the Florida Everglades, three others from another vehicle who tried to help the woman were then killed by a third vehicle.Several others were...
Dec 5 2014 // Fort Worth, Texas-based InsureZone, a national brokerage and agency network, has launched operations in Florida.The new operation, Florida InsureZone Direct (IZD), is targeting small-to-midsized insurance agencies,...
Dec 4 2014 // S&S Insurance Solutions of Florida, a division of East Providence, Rhode Island-based Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, has acquired Imperial Insurance of Naples, Florida. Terms of the transaction were...
Dec 2 2014 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has opened an office in St. Petersburg, Florida after agreeing to purchase the accounts of Teaberry Health and Welfare Benefits Practice.Financial terms of the agreement...
Dec 1 2014 // The Florida Supreme Court is considering whether to declare the state’s workers’ compensation attorney fee schedule unconstitutional.The court recently heard oral arguments in a case (Castellanos v. Next Door...
Dec 1 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Hilary Segura and Logan McFaddin as the latest additions to its state government relations team.Hilary Segura and Logan McFaddin will take over regional...
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Dec 1 2014 // A House Financial Services subcommittee recently held hearing to focus attention on legislation sponsored by two Florida representatives who want to encourage more flood insurance sales by private insurers as an...
Nov 26 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of five individuals on grand theft and insurance fraud charges for their involvement in an alleged staged accident.Officials said the alleged scam resulted...
Nov 26 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Owning a home is one of the largest investments most Americans will ever make and yet few homeowners understand that comprehensive sinkhole coverage is not part of a...
Nov 21 2014 // One of the largest title insurance underwriters in America has decided to make Florida its new company home. Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, already writes more title...
Nov 20 2014 // A Jacksonville-based company has reached a $40 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over claims the company sent unsolicited fax advertisements to consumers.A federal judge will still need to approve the settlement...