All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 12 2010 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty sent a letter to the state’s media outlets on April 9 regarding the current property insurance system and what should be done to improve it. In it, he says the exodus of...
Apr 12 2010 // Another young Florida property insurance company is in trouble with state regulators and could lose its license if it does not cut back on business, boost its reinsurance and explain some if its accounting.Olympus...
Apr 9 2010 // The eyewitnesses are everywhere, watching everything.Break-ins. Bank heists. Convenience store robberies, purse snatchings and shopping sprees charged on stolen credit cards. All these incidents and more caught in the...
Apr 9 2010 // Florida insurance regulators have ordered two firms to stop selling unauthorized surety insurance.The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) issued an order to Infinity Surety Co., Infinity Surety Agency and its president...
Apr 8 2010 // Five more states are 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 Wednesday.The joint lawsuit...
Apr 8 2010 // Florida insurance officials have moved to shut down Northern Capital Insurance Co. after concluding that the firm is insolvent.The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) made an official request to the state’s...
Apr 8 2010 // Gov. Charlie Crist says he will veto any legislation that raises homeowners insurance rates.“If a bill gets to my desk that favors the insurers, I will veto it,” Crist told a group of Realtors convening at the...
Apr 7 2010 // A jury has awarded $10 million to a Volusia County who sued an ambulance transport service over injuries her son received during his premature birth in 2003. The jury decided last week that EVAC Ambulance was negligent for...
Apr 6 2010 // The Board of Directors of Brown & Brown Inc. has elected C. Roy Bridges regional president responsible for most of the company’s retail operations in the western United States. He will continue to have regional...
Apr 6 2010 // The Supreme Court indicated this week it could prohibit foreign investors from using U.S. securities law and American courts to sue a foreign bank for fraud.The court heard argument in a challenge from Australian investors...
Apr 5 2010 // Property/casualty insurers are expected to continue to handle costs for defective Chinese drywall claims in the normal course of business, according to a rating analyst with Moody’s Investors Service.Losses from...
Apr 5 2010 // Florida officials are targeting unregistered and uninsured moving companies following complaints from consumers and others in the industry.Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson said he...
Apr 5 2010 // Florida’s 21st Century Holding Co. announced that its subsidiary Federated National Insurance Co. (FNIC) has received a capital infusion of $10 million. The transaction follows the previously announced notice from...
Apr 5 2010 // 21st Century, HomeWise21st Century Holding Co. has agreed to acquire HomeWise Insurance Co. and HomeWise Management Co. from HomeWise Holdings Inc. The agreement also includes renewal rights to certain policies from...
Apr 5 2010 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants the state insurance regulator to have authority to prevent excessive payments by home-based insurance companies to affiliate managing general agencies and other entities.“I’d...
Apr 5 2010 // Florida asked for federal assistance for thousands of homeowners with property damage caused by defective Chinese drywall but the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which typically deals with hurricanes and other natural...