All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2023 // More than 18 months after he pleaded guilty to absconding with almost $5 million in premiums, a Florida insurance agent has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.John M. Thomas, 52, the former owner of Thomas Insurance...
Mar 22 2023 // South Floridians may remember the case of a patient at Westchester General Hospital in Miami, who said she was sexually assaulted by a hospital worker on New Year’s Eve in 2019 while she was sedated. The...
Mar 21 2023 // Two men were found dead after a boating incident on a central Florida lake near the Legoland theme park.Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference that the two men had jumped into Lake Eloise Saturday to save...
Mar 20 2023 // Just days after some 90,000 policies from troubled United Property & Casualty Insurance Co. were transferred to Slide Insurance as part of a wind-down of the carrier, it was announced that UPC is officially broke and...
Mar 17 2023 // A Florida bill that would clamp further limits on attorney fees and litigation passed another Senate committee Thursday, moving it closer to a Senate floor vote.Senate Bill 236, sponsored by Sen. Travis Hutson, R-Palm...
Mar 16 2023 // A beach town in North Carolina is cracking down on golf carts on city streets, after the number of carts, unlicensed drivers and accidents has grown in recent years.The Port City Daily newspaper reported that the town...
Mar 16 2023 // Former Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has been hired as a lobbyist and consultant by one of the largest and most influential lobbying firms in the state, The Southern Group, the company announced.The...
Mar 15 2023 // A sponsor of a far-reaching Florida tort-reform bill warned last week that the measure, unlike previously adopted insurance legislation, is subject to change as it moves through the House and the Senate.On Tuesday, that...
Mar 15 2023 // Auto insurance and tort-reform groups are keeping their fingers crossed after a second Florida House subcommittee approved a bill that would ban assignment-of-benefits agreements for windshield repairs, a measure that...
Mar 14 2023 // Residents are complaining about burning eyes and breathing problems. Dead fish have washed up. A beachside festival has been canceled, even though it wasn’t scheduled for another month. To add to the misery, a giant...
Mar 14 2023 // The AM Best financial rating firm’s tepid outlook for Allstate’s Florida subsidiaries, Castle Key Insurance Co. and Castle Key Indemnity Co., has raised new questions about the subsidiaries’ and their...
Mar 13 2023 // A 16-year-old girl in the Florida Panhandle was killed when a tree fell on the vehicle she was in during a fierce storm that saw wind speeds reach 80 mph (129 km), authorities said. The girl was killed and the...
Mar 13 2023 // Allegations that some insurance carriers have altered field adjusters’ damage estimates has gained more national attention after The Washington Post reported on and documented examples of the practices.Leadership...
Mar 9 2023 // A pilot and and a 19-year-old student pilot were among four people killed when two small planes collided in midair over a central Florida lake, sheriff’s officials said.A Piper J-3 Cub seaplane and a Piper Cherokee...
Mar 9 2023 // David Altmaier has moved from overseeing regulation of insurance companies to overseeing operations for one – the Bermuda-based reinsurer Aspen Insurance Holdings.Aspen announced Wednesday that Altmaier, who was Florida...
Mar 8 2023 // A Florida bill that aims to further limit injury and insurance litigation and attorney fees passed a state Senate committee Tuesday after heavy debate – but with few amendments at the opening day of the state’s...
Mar 8 2023 // Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. (HRTG) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $12.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. For the year 2022, though, the company reported that its...
Mar 7 2023 // A Florida man left paralyzed when a police officer shot him after mistaking his handgun for his stun gun filed a lawsuit last week against the city, the officer and others, saying, “my life got...
Mar 6 2023 // Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known as letters of protection.But critics say the instruments, in which doctors agree to take...
Mar 3 2023 // Federal and local officials in Florida were investigating after a train car carrying 30,000 gallons (113,562 liters) of propane tipped over in a derailment along the Gulf Coast.The freight train operated by Seminole Gulf...