All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 30 2010 // A massive oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River Thursday as it threatens the environmentally delicate coastline of Louisiana and...
Apr 29 2010 // Businesses such as theme parks and go-cart tracks that offer potentially dangerous fun will regain liability protection for injuries to children that they lost due to a court ruling.Gov. Charlie Crist has signed into law a...
Apr 29 2010 // The Florida companies of Allstate Insurance Co. have been writing new homeowners and renters business for several months and have now indicated they may also assume some policies from the state-backed insurer, Citizens...
Apr 28 2010 // Florida’s 21st Century Holding Co. has dropped its bid to acquire domestic property insurer HomeWise Holdings at the same time it reported that its own Florida property insurance unit it has received approval to...
Apr 27 2010 // Atlantic Specialty Lines of Florida, the Western Florida office of the independently owned Wholesale Brokerage firm with offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic, announces that Greg Gold, an experienced marketing and field...
Apr 26 2010 // The Florida Senate has got its property insurance reform bill back on the track for the final week of the legislatuve session.After his bill became hung up in debate by amendments last Thursday, Sen. Garrett Richter ironed...
Apr 22 2010 // Residents of a neighborhood on the edge of a polluted Florida Superfund site have sued the property owners, seeking at least $500 million to decontaminate their homes and monitor their health.The so-called Cabot/Koppers...
Apr 21 2010 // SUNZ Insurance Co., a St. Petersburg, Florida-based insurer, has added five states to its coverage area for writing workers’ compensation policies.Known primarily for its presence in Florida, SUNZ said it is now also...
Apr 21 2010 // The Florida Legislature has passed a bill reinstating parental waivers of liability against theme parks, go-cart tracks and similar businesses.The House voted 114-0 Tuesday to pass the measure (SB 2440) that the Senate...
Apr 21 2010 // The Florida-Based Property Insurers CEO Group, representing 21 carriers, held a media conference today to discuss legislation to address the problems in the state’s property insurance market. The group downplayed the...
Apr 19 2010 // Florida regulatory officials are preparing for the implementation of the new healthcare reform law.Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said his Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will use a May 4 joint public...
Apr 19 2010 // Northern CapitalFlorida insurance officials have moved to shut down Northern Capital Insurance Co. after concluding that the firm is insolvent. Agents and the company’s 70,000 policyholders are being advised to...
Apr 19 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Wayne Marchant as senior vice president and Southeast region healthcare practice leader. He will be based in Savannah.Prior to joining Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Marchant was...
Apr 19 2010 // $30.8 MillionThe amount from its surplus that Kentucky’s major workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, has decided to return to policyholders. Earlier this month,...
Apr 16 2010 // Tampa-based American Integrity Insurance Co. said that it would provide insurance coverage for up to 20,000 of the 62,000 customers of Northern Capital Insurance Co., which is being liquidated.American Integrity said it is...
Apr 16 2010 // Florida insurance consumers have recovered more than than $4.4 million since January from insurance companies with the help of the state. Citing an example, CFO Alex Sink said that a Naples homeowner contacted the...
Apr 15 2010 // The payment per claim for prescription drugs used to treat injured workers in Florida was nearly 40 percent higher than in most study states, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Apr 14 2010 // Georgia is joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, Florida’s attorney general said Tuesday.Bill McCollum, who is seeking...
Apr 13 2010 // Can posting your opinion on eBay cost you in real life?So far Michael Steadman of Florida has spent $7,000 for his, and he isn’t yet done defending himself in a $15,000 defamation lawsuit brought by the man who sold...
Apr 13 2010 // Judge James O. Shelfer of the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Florida has ordered Miami-based Northern Capital Insurance Co. (NCIC) into receivership for the purpose of rehabilitation.At the same time, the court ordered...