All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 9 2024 // Being unlicensed as a contractor in Florida does not necessarily void a storm-remediation contract, a Florida appeals court said in a decision that could affect insurance defense strategy in hurricane claims.“This...
Oct 8 2024 // Florida law requires insurance agencies’ customer service representatives to work only at the agency office. But with another hurricane headed toward the state, and much of the western part of the state under...
Oct 7 2024 // Another day, another hurricane.That may be the thought in the minds of thousands of Floridians as Hurricane Milton makes its way toward the west coast of Florida – the fourth hurricane in 14 months to target the...
Oct 4 2024 // HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe...
Oct 4 2024 // One week after Hurricane Helene barreled ashore, Florida is bracing for another round of heavy rainfall and strong winds from a tropical system brewing in the Atlantic.The potential storm could bring as much as a foot of...
Oct 2 2024 // The number of property insurance claims in Florida from Hurricane Helene had topped 65,700 by Tuesday, far more than the 25,000 seen in Hurricane Idalia a year ago, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation reported.The...
Oct 1 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Adjuster licensing is famously terrible. Ask anyone who has ever been an adjuster. Or handled adjuster compliance. Or even regulated adjusters for their state department...
Oct 1 2024 // Just as Florida property insurers face another round of storm claims, CBS News has raised questions about alleged insurer fraud stemming from claims incurred in the last major storm – Hurricane Ian, which hit much of...
Sep 30 2024 // Hurricane Helene’s storm surge along Florida’s western edges is being called the most devastating since 1921, responsible for destroying or heavily damaging hundreds of homes and businesses in the area.One of...
Sep 30 2024 // A Florida surgeon’s license was suspended last week after he reportedly removed the wrong organ from a patient, leading to the man’s death.Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, working at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast...
Sep 27 2024 // Hurricane Helene barreled into the western coast of Florida with dangerous winds, knocking out power for more than a million customers and threatening to unleash deadly flooding across several states.Helene made landfall...
Sep 26 2024 // In the long war between auto insurers and windshield repair shops, the Florida Supreme Court this week sided with glass companies, leaving GEICO with little choice but to ask lawmakers to change the law if it feels repair...
Sep 25 2024 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s largest insurer, has suspended policy binding ahead of predicted Hurricane Helene, and a board member asked if the carrier could do more to help policyholders manage flood...
Sep 25 2024 // Michigan-based Highstreet Insurance Partners has acquired the Mitchell Agency, headquartered in Largo, Florida, near St. Petersburg. Highstreet said in a news release that the Florida agency and its eight employees will be...
Sep 24 2024 // Florida’s Big Bend region on the northern Gulf Coast is bracing for yet another hurricane, the third in the last 13 months.Wind speeds for what could soon be Hurricane Helene are forecast to reach up to 115 mph,...
Sep 23 2024 // The US Gulf Coast from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle is at risk of a hurricane strike by the end of the week as a patch of turbulent weather in the Atlantic becomes more organized.Currently a swirl of thunderstorms...
Sep 18 2024 // Miami, FL., September 17, 2024 — Apex One Inspections & Surveys, a leading provider of home inspection and property survey services in both residential and commercial properties, is pleased to announce the expansion...
Sep 16 2024 // Florida and much of the country face a real estate crash unless government officials deal with climate change, members of Congress said at a roundtable discussion Saturday in St. Petersburg.U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,...
Sep 16 2024 // He’s been called a “do-gooder,” a “troublemaker” and a whistleblower. And he may be the best friend the Florida property insurance industry has.A mechanical engineer based in Edgewater, George...
Sep 12 2024 // A Florida home inspector allegedly used the same stock photographs in more than 200 home and wind-mitigation inspections, costing Citizens Property Insurance Corp. more than $88,000, the state Department of Financial...