All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2011 // Amish Appeal“We think there are important Kentucky constitutional issues that need to be resolved by this case.” William Sharp, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing Amish men in Kentucky who...
Nov 7 2011 // The Doctors Co., FPIC InsuranceMedical liability insurer The Doctors Co. has completed its previously-announced acquisition of FPIC Insurance Group Inc., a major provider of health care liability insurance in Florida,...
Nov 4 2011 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has elected its 2012 officers.Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty will serve as president, and Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James J. Donelon will...
Nov 3 2011 // In an effort to lower workers’ compensation costs, Florida lawmakers are proposing to limit the amount physicians can charge for providing patients with prescription drugs.State Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and Rep....
Nov 3 2011 // Check cashing companies in Florida may be saddled with new regulations for their role in facilitating workers’ compensation fraud in the construction industry.Among other things, check cashing companies may have to...
Nov 3 2011 // Gov. Rick Scott wants the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to recommend ways to shore up the troubled insurer.Scott, who would prefer the insurer be sold to a private company, wants answers from the...
Nov 2 2011 // Florida’s automobile no-fault law is in severe need of reform, but the cost of doing so may be more than the benefit, according to the state’s insurance consumer advocate.Speaking before Florida’s...
Nov 2 2011 // Florida and Georgia have renewed their partnership to provide services in the event a catastrophe compromises their ability to respond to a disaster. First drafted in 2009, the updated plan is designed to ensure a...
Nov 1 2011 // The widow of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailings has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the U.S. government.Maureen Stevens of Lake Worth, Florida, and the government have reached a...
Oct 28 2011 // Florida should allow more time for looking into suspicious claims, place a cap on attorneys’ fees and more closely regulate medical clinics to help reduce rampant fraud in the state’s personal injury protection...
Oct 27 2011 // As Insurance Journal has reported, Florida lawmakers are considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort...
Oct 26 2011 // As Insurance Journal has reported, Florida lawmakers are considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort...
Oct 25 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation coverage next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike.Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Oct 25 2011 // A federal jury has awarded a Florida man $1 million in punitive damages against his former Charleston lawyer. The Post and Courier reported that a jury in Columbia ruled against attorney Robert Lowe Jr. in the legal...
Oct 25 2011 // The number of Floridians who have had their driver’s licenses revoked because they are deemed physically or mentally unfit has more than doubled in the last decade. State figures show the main reasons many lose...
Oct 21 2011 // Florida insurance broker Kuykendall Gardner has tapped Nicholas Carbone to serve as a vice president of transactional risk. In this role, he will assess, mitigate and transfer risk through insurance and other business...
Oct 20 2011 // Florida’s top highway safety official wants to put more troopers who specialize in investigating highway fatalities out on the road. Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Director Julie Jones told members of the Florida...
Oct 20 2011 // Florida’s hurricane fund is confronting a potential $3.2 billion shortfall, financial experts said in a new estimate of the money available to the pool intended to help insurers make disaster payments.The fund was...
Oct 18 2011 // Florida regulators have given the go-ahead for an insurer that wants to provide foreign nationals with access to the U.S. health insurance market.Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced that Best Doctors Limited has...
Oct 18 2011 // Two Florida insurance agencies have merged as part of a plan to increase their business in southeast Florida. Ranew Insurance President Barry Ranew and Ranzino Insurance President Marion Ranzino announced they are merging...