All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2009 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) and the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority (FSA) have agreed to work together on issues that affect insurance consumers in the U.K. and the U.S.Florida Insurance...
Jul 21 2009 // A court has upheld Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty’s denial of a 47.1 percent home insurance rate hike requested last July by State Farm Florida.According to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation...
Jul 20 2009 // Focus Holdings, Capacity InsuranceFocus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009. Focus, better known...
Jul 20 2009 // Patterson Launch“Floridians deserve to have a choice in this election. With me, they’ll get someone who has spent a lifetime educating and advocating for consumers, and someone who understands that we...
Jul 20 2009 // After three years of no increases, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is about to hike premiums up to 10 percent for many of its policyholders, although not for as many as some insurance insiders and...
Jul 16 2009 // The state has helped Floridians recover more than $11.5 million in the first six months of this year in claim payments and premium refunds, including one case that resulted in a $1.2 million payment on a consumer’s...
Jul 15 2009 // After months of trying, Florida state officials and State Farm Florida have been unable to agree on the details of the insurer’s plan for withdrawing from the state, so steps have been taken to have an administrative...
Jul 15 2009 // Today is an important deadline in the process of settling the terms of State Farm’s withdrawal from the Florida insurance market.Representatives of Florida insurance regulators and State Farm Florida had hoped to...
Jul 14 2009 // In May, when Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a bill (SB 714) to fix a glitch in the state’s condominium insurance laws because he did not like a minor fire sprinkler provision in it, a frustrated Jeff Grady, president of...
Jul 9 2009 // After three years of no increases, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is about to hike premiums up to 10 percent for many of its policyholders, although not for as many as some insurance insiders and...
Jul 8 2009 // Highway deaths are at an 8-year low in Florida.Also for the first time since 2000, fewer than 3,000 people lost their lives on the state’s roadways, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles...
Jul 8 2009 // Focus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, reports that it closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009.Focus, better known by the name of its...
Jul 7 2009 // A federal agency has opened an investigation into the death of an operator of Walt Disney World’s monorail train in Florida.The investigation launched Monday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration could...
Jul 6 2009 // Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. and Allstate Floridian Indemnity Co., property insurance subsidiaries of Allstate Insurance Co., have changed their names to Castle Key Insurance Co. and Castle Key Indemnity Co.,...
Jul 6 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said the 54 property insurers backed by nearly $5 billion in capital that have been admitted to the state since 2006 can’t be expected to absorb all of the policies left...
Jul 6 2009 // 2.4%The average hike in auto insurance rates in Georgia this year. That compares to an average 5 to 11 percent hike for homeowners insurance. Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that in other states rates...
Jul 6 2009 // After Florida limited the fees insurers had to pay to attorneys in workers’ compensation cases in 2003, attorney involvement in cases fell only slightly, according to new research.In fact, a significant proportion of...
Jul 6 2009 // Jeffrey A. Vanderpool has been promoted to senior vice president and chief claims officer at Sunshine State Insurance Co. in St. Augustine, Fla. Vanderpool has served as vice president of caims since he joined the insurer...
Jul 6 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Grady & AssociatesWells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Grady & Associates, a retail broker in Las Vegas. The acquisition closed June 1,...
Jul 2 2009 // Florida returned over $173 million in unclaimed property for the most recent fiscal year– the largest amount in state history, according to CFO Alex Sink and her Bureau of Unclaimed Property. The Bureau of Unclaimed...