All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2025 // After Paola Freites was allowed into the U.S. in 2024, she and her husband settled in Florida, drawn by warm temperatures, a large Latino community and the ease of finding employment and housing.They were among hundreds of...
Oct 6 2025 // A toxic cloud of chemicals was released from an industrial site near Cocoa Beach last week, but authorities said no one was seriously injured, and the leak has been repaired.Florida Today and other news outlets reported...
Oct 6 2025 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is deferring the required proof of flood insurance while the federal government shutdown continues and the National Flood Insurance Program is in limbo.“Citizens will...
Oct 3 2025 // If Florida’s insurance market needed more indication that 2022 legislative reforms have made a big difference in the cost of doing business in the state, one of the biggest names in reinsurance has provided...
Oct 1 2025 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Florida commercial painting contractor $877,000 – one of the largest OSHA fines in recent years – six months after a worker fell from a bridge near...
Oct 1 2025 // A commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people on a Florida highway last month waived his first appearance hearing Monday and entered a not guilty plea, court records show.Harjinder...
Sep 30 2025 // Smith Marsh, the global insurance broker and risk advisor, has named Fred Smith the Florida corporate and risk management segment leader, overseeing service for large and middle-market clients in the state. Smith will...
Sep 30 2025 // Attendees at the Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ June convention in Orlando may have noticed the live giraffe exhibit at the Marriott World Center.The giraffe won’t make it for the 2026 convention. Nor...
Sep 23 2025 // A South Florida judge cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a UPS driver who had been taken hostage during a 2019 robbery.Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Jose Mateo, who had been...
Sep 23 2025 // Florida regulators have approved two new homeowner insurance companies, one led by a San Francisco tech entrepreneur and former head of Metromile auto insurance company.“I focus on companies that can successfully use...
Sep 23 2025 // A former staff adjuster for a large Florida insurance carrier has been found guilty of defrauding the insurer out of more than $580,000.A federal jury in Orlando last week said James Octavias Tobias Owens, 34, from the...
Sep 18 2025 // ServiceNow Inc. is expanding to West Palm Beach, Florida, opening a location for several hundred employees in a planned office tower being developed by billionaire Stephen Ross, the famed New York real estate magnate who...
Sep 17 2025 // Two boys were turned in by their mothers Monday to face charges for allegedly causing $50,000 worth of vandalism damage to a central Florida elementary school’s media center, investigators said.The 12- and...
Sep 12 2025 // Federal investigators have zeroed in on flaws in the pool deck as the preliminary cause of the 2021 collapse of a 12-story Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people.The National Institute of Standards and...
Sep 10 2025 // In a three-way deal involving carriers, underwriters, holding companies and more, catastrophe-focused managing general underwriter SageSure announced it will acquire the managing general agent for Florida-based Olympus...
Sep 10 2025 // In a wide-ranging scheme that prosecutors are calling “insurance farming,” a former manager for one of the larger agricultural operations in Florida is now awaiting a sentencing hearing in December.Christopher...
Sep 9 2025 // Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other diseases, like polio...
Sep 8 2025 // Starting in January, workers’ compensation insurance rates for Florida businesses could drop by an average of 7%.The National Council on Compensation Insurance last week recommended an average rate decrease of 6.9%...
Sep 8 2025 // Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said there’s no need to do projections of the potential effects of ending vaccine mandates for children, as Governor Ron DeSantis pushes to make his state the first one to scrap...
Sep 3 2025 // Florida Insurance Comissioner Michael Yaworsky this year has levied more than $2 million in fines against eight property insurance companies over claims-handling practices flagged by recent market conduct...