All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2023 // National law firms are investing $10 million to $12 million annually each to direct Google searches to websites that they control in an effort to find new clients to file lawsuits against insurance companies, according to...
Jul 5 2023 // A Florida Supreme Court decision has put to rest some questions about whether a statute of limitations on lawsuits can be extended just because the insurance carrier is a party being sued.It cannot, the court held last...
Jul 3 2023 // A south Florida injury attorney, suspended from practice this year over alleged financial irregularities, has been charged with murdering his father, Boca Raton lawyer Paul Labiner.News outlets and the Palm Beach County...
Jul 3 2023 // When Florida prosecutors charged former Deputy Scot Peterson for his alleged inaction during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, they faced a major hurdle: no law precisely fit.So it was not a surprise to legal observers...
Jul 3 2023 // Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re appointed Linda Johnson vice chairperson for its North American team.Johnson will be responsible for producing new business for large casualty and structured reinsurance solutions...
Jul 3 2023 // Despite the Florida Legislature taking major steps to rein in the cost of roof claims and litigation, at least two insurers have come out with broad roof endorsements that seek to bar claims for wear and tear, poor...
Jul 3 2023 // Just as some California insurance agents are expressing grave concerns about the future of that state’s insurance market, a number of Florida agents feel like they’ve turned something of a corner.“Things...
Jul 3 2023 // It’s no secret that the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry does not always enjoy a sterling reputation among consumers. As one insurance professor recently put it, the industry’s rank in public opinion...
Jun 30 2023 // Three Florida men were arrested Thursday and charged with illegally making more than $22 million by insider trading ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was going to take a media company owned by...
Jun 30 2023 // A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among at least 10 recent victims of dangerous rip currents along Gulf of Mexico beaches stretching across Florida’s...
Jun 30 2023 // Starting Saturday, insurers and mortgage lenders for Florida homeowners will face some new restrictions on lender-placed insurance policies, thanks to a bill approved by state lawmakers this year.House Bill 793 takes...
Jun 29 2023 // If it’s not malaria-carrying mosquitoes, it’s stucco-eating giant snails.Neighborhoods in Broward County are still under quarantine in an effort to limit the spread of the giant African land snails, which were...
Jun 29 2023 // Reinsurers will continue to command adequate rates for property-catastrophe in 2024, even if the market comes through hurricane season unscathed, reinsurance company executives said.Kevin O’Donnell, president and...
Jun 29 2023 // Five teenagers were killed when their car ran off a curving street and landed in a southwest Florida retention pond where it went underwater, authorities said. It happened either late Sunday or early Monday, killing...
Jun 29 2023 // Insurance carriers do not have to pay for an engineering report if it’s not used in the repair of a property and is not covered by the policy, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday in a rebuke of one of the...
Jun 29 2023 // Florida law enforcement pushed back this week against a nationwide surge in auto thefts, announcing that 23 people were arrested for their alleged participation in a crime ring that forged vehicle identification numbers...
Jun 28 2023 // A trio of property/casualty carrier executives voluntarily offered their views on a growing insurance availability crisis in a state like California at an industry conference last week, pointing to regulatory disconnects...
Jun 28 2023 // Travelers must pay a $2 million claim by the owner of a 92-foot-long yacht that was sunk by Hurricane Irma because Florida law does not allow insurers to deny claims based on inconsequential technicalities.A panel of the...
Jun 27 2023 // It seems that few are safe from soaring property insurance rates in Florida, not even those with strong connections to a higher authority.The Crux, a Catholic news outlet, reported that the Catholic Church’s...
Jun 27 2023 // The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, which handles the claims of insolvent insurers, plans to borrow $600 million by selling municipal bonds, according to preliminary offering documents. It is the first time in...