All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 16 2013 // Security First Insurance, one of Florida’s largest private property insurance companies, has told state regulators that it is going to lower rates by an average of 9.3 percent statewide. The lower rates will take...
Sep 16 2013 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has filled a pair of key positions.Jennifer Montero will become Citizens chief financial officer. Montero, a certified public accountant who has served as interim CFO since June, has been...
Sep 13 2013 // Florida was strongly criticized by the federal government on Thursday for barring outreach workers, known as “navigators,” from county health departments when they start enrolling people next month for...
Sep 11 2013 // Florida homeowners who secure coverage through the state-backed property insurer will see their rates increase by a statewide average 6.3 percent based on a ruling by state regulators.Homeowners with multiperil policies...
Sep 10 2013 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. reported that Scot Moore has been named as the firm’s new executive vice president. Moore’s accounting career began in 1986 with KPMG Peat Marwick and he has worked in the...
Sep 9 2013 // Reynolds American Inc.’s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco unit lost its bid to overturn jury verdicts over smoking-related deaths after arguing that federal courts shouldn’t apply a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court...
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
Sep 9 2013 // Florida’s employers can look forward to little, if any, change in their 2014 workers’ compensation rates as the state’s industry-backed rating agency has filed for a statewide average one percent rate...
Sep 9 2013 // A recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group, calls for further reforms to flood and wind insurance programs to discourage risky development and help reduce risk and taxpayer costs.The report,...
Sep 6 2013 // Florida regulators have approved a first round of rate changes for the state-backed property insurer that include an 8.3 percent increase in condominium association multiperil policies.Citizens Property Insurance Corp. was...
Sep 3 2013 // Hundreds of thousands of Floridians who rely on Citizens Property Insurance could soon find themselves with a new insurance company.State regulators last week quietly signed off on a plan to let 10 different insurance...
Aug 30 2013 // As health care costs rise in Florida, insurers and hospitals vested in the success of the Affordable Care Act, are coming up with new ways to cut costs from buying services in bulk and piloting programs to lowering...
Aug 28 2013 // Willis North America has named Walter Gardner as senior vice president and practice leader, Human Capital, for Willis of Florida Inc.Willis of Florida provides employee benefit and risk management services for 5,000...
Aug 26 2013 // In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed school resource officer who will be...
Aug 23 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer has tapped a Connecticut-based firm to operate a new clearinghouse where new and renewal policyholders will be shopped to the private market before they are eligible for...
Aug 21 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer is seeking a statewide average 6.6 percent increase in homeowners’ rates and a 24.8 percent increase in sinkhole rates while citing reduced losses and an improved...
Aug 19 2013 // Florida insurance regulators ruled Friday to allow health insurance giant Florida Blue, one of the state’s largest employers and political donors, to restructure itself under a not-for-profit mutual insurance holding...
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Aug 16 2013 // Florida’s employers can look forward to little, if any, change in their 2014 workers’ compensation rates as the state’s industry-backed rating agency has filed for a modest statewide average 1 percent...
Aug 15 2013 // An official at the Florida resort where a villa was partially swallowed into the ground says it doesn’t appear the sinkhole on the site is growing. Summer Bay Resort President Paul Caldwell told reporters during a...