All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // The trade group the Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) of Florida has about 350 agencies as members. The association has been around for 70 years advocating for agents in Tallahassee and educating them on how to better...
Mar 19 2012 // It’s time to put some of the sunshine back in the Sunshine State’s insurance outlook.Sure, the property market, Citizens and the hurricane fund remain precarious. But no-fault’s PIP may be on the mend...
Mar 19 2012 // There is plenty of negativity about the Florida property/casualty insurance market in the press, living rooms, boardrooms and barrooms across the state-and even among many people outside the state with an interest.The talk...
Mar 19 2012 // There is less consensus when it comes to rating the performance of key players in the state’s insurance marketplace, however. Some public officials get better grades than property/casualty insurance executives as a...
Mar 19 2012 // Recent data from Florida indicate that the economics for a multistate surplus lines tax allocation clearinghouse are unworkable. There simply is not enough multistate surplus lines tax to support the cost of a...
Mar 19 2012 // Florida largest property insurer named a state regulator and former state lawmaker as its interim president.Citizens Property Insurance Corp. announced yesterday that it has hired Tom Grady to take over as president and...
Mar 19 2012 // Florida consumers are being warned of an emerging unclaimed property scam. Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater said scammers have been offering to reunite consumers with unclaimed property for an upfront fee of...
Mar 16 2012 // Florida lawmakers have put taxpayers at risk by not reforming the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund or Citizen’s Property Insurance Corp. in advance of the 2012 hurricane season, an insurance executive has...
Mar 15 2012 // While their debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers were quietly dealing with several other insurance issues including...
Mar 12 2012 // The man who is leaving his post as chief executive officer of Florida’s state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is joining one of the state’s private homeowners insurers.Homeowners Choice Inc. announced...
Mar 12 2012 // Florida lawmakers have approved a bill that reduces the assessment rate of the state-run property insurer to give policyholders more time to retire deficits. The bill would also reduce the financial pressure on the...
Mar 12 2012 // Gov. Rick Scott got the legislation he wanted to reform Florida’s mandatory motor vehicle no-fault law and crack down on the abuses in personal injury protection cases that have led to skyrocketing increases for...
Mar 12 2012 // A claims bill that would pay $2.4 million to the parents of murdered Tallahassee police informant Rachel Hoffman went to Gov. Rick Scott after a final vote Friday in the Florida Senate.The measure (HB 7131) will allow the...
Mar 12 2012 // Attorney General Pam Bondi has hired four law firms to help with Florida’s claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago.Bondi said the firms will work on a contingency basis, earning 2.5 percent of...
Mar 9 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has blasted a Senate bill to reform the state’s personal injury protection (PIP) auto insurance system claiming the bill does not provide adequate reform and could make the system even more...
Mar 9 2012 // Aaron Edwards squirmed in delight on his mother’s lap in the Florida Senate gallery Wednesday as the chamber passed a bill to compensate him for negligence during his birth at a public hospital 14 years ago that left...
Mar 8 2012 // The Florida Senate has rewritten the House’s bill aimed at reforming the state’s no-fault auto law, adding numerous provisions that are opposed by House lawmakers.As a result, there is a chance that the issue...
Mar 8 2012 // Arkansas-based surplus lines broker Argenia has created a new Florida program designed to cover the reduction of coverage under Citizens Property Insurance Corp. homeowners policies.The program provides high enough...
Mar 7 2012 // Florida largest property insurer has named a state regulator and former state lawmaker as its interim president, effective March 12.Citizens Property Insurance Corp. announced yesterday that it has hired Tom Grady to take...
Mar 7 2012 // So much that is said and written about Florida’s insurance climate is negative. Is there anything good to say about Florida’s insurance market?That’s one of the questions in a brief Florida-only survey of...