All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 17 2011 // The Florida Senate has approved a bill that would change the apportionment of damages in product liability cases so that a judge or jury must consider the fault of all parties. The bill is designed to shield or limit the...
Mar 14 2011 // Two Florida insurers are facing regulatory action as the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) ordered commercial insurer AequiCap Insurance Co. into liquidation and suspended the license of insurer Seminole...
Mar 11 2011 // Paul Vredenburg has joined Assured Agencies in Lake Mary, Fla. as senior vice president of business development. In this position, Vredenburg will be responsible for identifying acquisition opportunities for Assured...
Mar 10 2011 // The man in charge of paying BP claims for the Gulf oil spill will soon face a Florida legislative committee to answer questions about how the compensation scheme is going.Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who is overseeing the...
Mar 9 2011 // Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon this week proposed creating a second Florida Supreme Court so that one set of justices could specialize on criminal appeals and the other on civil cases.The Winter Park Republican said a...
Mar 8 2011 // The Obama administration Tuesday appealed a U.S. judge’s ruling in Florida that struck down its landmark healthcare overhaul law as unconstitutional because it required Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a...
Mar 8 2011 // Florida lawmakers are looking to cut the state’s largest property insurer down in size.The plan is to reduce the number of properties insured by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by allowing it to raise its rates by...
Mar 7 2011 // Brokers Hoping Improving Economy, Changes in Tallahassee, Rate Deregulation Will Bring Some ReliefThe numbers alone tell the story. According to the Florida Surplus Lines Office, the total surplus lines premiums written in...
Mar 7 2011 // PIP FraudInsurance companies are taking to the Internet to combat auto insurance fraud in Florida. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American has launched www.InsuranceFraudUncovered.com, a Web site designed to...
Mar 7 2011 // Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record $604 billion and post positive growth in 2011 after a three-year period of negative real sales growth. The 2011 forecast from the National Restaurant Association...
Mar 7 2011 // Jennifer McPhillips has been promoted to senior director of federal government affairs for the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) and will serve as one of the...
Mar 7 2011 // It’s not very often that private insurers, state regulators, lawmakers and consumer groups are all on the same page on an insurance issue in Florida—or any state, for that matter. But this miracle is taking place...
Mar 3 2011 // Florida’s “Operation Deep Horizon” has netted 17 arrests — including a clinic owner, doctors, clinic employees and staged recruiters — in the state’s largest-ever auto personal injury protection...
Mar 3 2011 // Florida is allowing the Allied World Assurance Co. to meet a lower collateral requirement, making the Bermuda-based foreign reinsurer the ninth such reinsurer the state has approved. “We are encouraged by the number...
Mar 2 2011 // The sixth largest insurance company writing property coverage in Florida is looking to increase its market share by acquiring the 14 highest property insurer in the state. Tower Hill Insurance Group, LLC., has announced...
Mar 2 2011 // PMA Cos. has hired Krystal Erickson as an account executive for Florida. Erickson will be responsible for growing PMA’s workers’ comp, commercial auto and general liability third part claims administration...
Mar 2 2011 // Aging survivors of the Nazi Holocaust plan to protest outside a political fundraiser in Miami Beach featuring President Barack Obama this week to publicize their struggle to collect what they say is $20 billion in Jewish...
Mar 1 2011 // Florida insurers, government agencies and consumer advocate groups have established a statewide alliance to push for legislative reforms aimed at cracking-down on staged-accidents that the industry says are costing Florida...
Feb 28 2011 // Florida has approved lower collateral payments for another Bermuda reinsurer, the eighth foreign reinsurer to be granted this approval by the state.Tokio Millennium Re Ltd., a subsidiary of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire...
Feb 25 2011 // Some South Florida officials say it’s becoming too costly to use automatic cameras to ticket drivers who run red lights.They had hoped their cities would collect millions of dollars in fines, thanks to the images...