All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 23 2022 // The former mayor of Tallahassee, who came close to defeating Ron DeSantis in the Florida governor’s race in 2018, has been indicted on federal charges of fraud and making false statements while mayor and as a...
Jun 22 2022 // Florida’s chief financial officer has stepped into the middle of a firefighters’ workers’ compensation appeal on a mental stress claim, a move the fireman’s lawyer called “unprecedented”...
Jun 20 2022 // A decade ago, it was questionable sinkhole damages that proliferated in Florida property insurance claims. More recently, “free roof” solicitations, roof claims and thousands of lawsuits have rattled the...
Jun 19 2022 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents installed new board members at its annual convention last week in Orlando. The board comprises 14 members, elected on a staggered basis to three-year terms. The latest directors...
Jun 15 2022 // Attorneys who worked to secure settlements topping $1 billion in the collapse of a beachfront Florida condominium building in which 98 people died are requesting about $100 million in fees and costs, according to a new...
Jun 15 2022 // Florida’s 16 largest property insurers reported a 14% average decrease in litigated claims in May, the first drop in the numbers since February.CaseGlide, a litigation management software provider that tracks claims...
Jun 15 2022 // Some Florida insurers may feel like they didn’t score a home run with the recent property insurance reform measures signed into law in May. But they could soon see a friendly umpire on the state Supreme Court, likely...
Jun 14 2022 // When the Florida Legislature approved Senate Bill 76 last year, with its restrictions on homeowner solicitation by roofing contractors, insurers saw it as a major blow against runaway fraudulent and exaggerated roof...
Jun 13 2022 // King Insurance, a brokerage based in Gainesville, Florida, has continued its steady expansion with the acquistion of The Wurzel Agency in Oveido, Florida. Wurzel has specialized in property and casualty personal lines and...
Jun 10 2022 // The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt to...
Jun 9 2022 // A 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges, authorities in Florida said Monday.Reggie Mabry, 26, was fatally shot late last month...
Jun 8 2022 // Keystone Agency Partners, a brokerage that continues to acquire agencies around the country, said it has taken a majority stake in Keyes Coverage, an insurance agency based in Tamarac, Florida. Keyes, one of the largest...
Jun 8 2022 // A report from Florida’s auditor general appears to support what some officials said in 2020 – that the state’s COVID-19 data was inaccurate and incomplete during the first nine months of the pandemic, making...
Jun 7 2022 // A Florida insurance executive will soon join the board of governors for Citizens Property Insurance Corp.Charlie Lydecker was formerly president of the retail division of Brown & Brown Insurance, one of the largest...
Jun 7 2022 // Homeowners and public adjusters may now feel a little more emboldened to record an insurance adjuster’s inspection of a home, after a Florida appeals court ruled in favor of the practice last week – the third such...
Jun 3 2022 // Professional golfer Bart Bryant, who once beat Tiger Woods by six shots to collect the biggest paycheck of his career, was killed when a truck slammed into his SUV while he was stopped in a line of vehicles on a central...
Jun 3 2022 // RoofClaim.com, a name that has caused heartburn in the Florida insurance industry in recent years, announced that it is now offering no-money-down roof financing in the wake of insurance rate hikes, insurer insolvencies...
Jun 2 2022 // A woman from Illinois was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the...
Jun 2 2022 // Workpartners, which describes itself as a data-informed, human capital-management firm, has expanded its workers’ compensation program into Florida, the company said this week. The firm, part of the University of...
Jun 1 2022 // As many as five Florida property insurers are unlikely to be able to secure adequate reinsurance by today’s deadline, but the state’s largest carrier is not one of them.Universal Insurance Holdings announced...