All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2021 // A federal judge in Miami sentenced four men to at least two years in prison each for a scheme that sold worthless construction bonds for major building projects in 2015.Working under the name of Hampton Investment Fund,...
Dec 2 2021 // An appellate court’s job is to determine whether evidence supports the workers’ compensation judge’s decision, not to weigh information about arguments that have already been rejected, Florida’s 1st...
Nov 29 2021 // A Florida Senate committee has drafted a bill that would extend health care providers’ COVID-19 liability protection for another 14 months. Committee Chair Sen. Danny Burgess The Legislature in 2021 created the...
Nov 29 2021 // Florida’s top financial and insurance regulator may have landed in the middle of a political mess, but he and other state officials were within their rights in hiring an agency head who was later forced out over...
Nov 29 2021 // In a sign that Florida’s property insurance problems continue to be a hot-button issue, a Florida state representative will hold town hall meetings next week to hear from stakeholders.State Rep. Kamia Brown,...
Nov 29 2021 // One of the largest utility companies in Florida may, after all, be shielded from tort claims by the grand bargain of workers’ compensation law, even though it had contracted maintenance work to another firm, a...
Nov 23 2021 // A federal judge has struck down a plan to give the Seminole Tribe of Florida a monopoly on sports betting and to expand two of the tribe’s hotels into Las Vegas-style casinos.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dabney...
Nov 19 2021 // After two months of significant declines, litigated claims for Florida’s largest property and casualty insurers rose 5% in October, a litigation tracking service reported.CaseGlide, a litigation management software...
Nov 19 2021 // The Florida Supreme Court has suspended a workers’ compensation defense lawyer for 91 days after he was caught coaching a deposition witness through text messages, then being less than candid about it to a...
Nov 18 2021 // An insurance company is suing the mother of two boys killed by her estranged husband over a $4 million life insurance payout, claiming she may not have been legally entitled to receive the funds. Meanwhile, she is trying...
Nov 17 2021 // Florida lawmakers moved ahead with bills that directly conflict with federal regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccine for most workers.In a special vaccine session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, the Florida House...
Nov 16 2021 // Brown & Brown, a national insurance brokerage firm, has acquired Heacock Insurance, a fifth-generation agency based in Central Florida. Heacock was founded in 1922 and has offices in Lakeland and Sebring. The Heacock...
Nov 15 2021 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has approved a 4.9% average decrease in workers’ compensation rates for 2022, as recommended by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.The decrease is the sixth...
Nov 15 2021 // What happens when a worker’s injury needs follow-up surgery many years later, requiring the employee to miss months of paychecks?In Florida, he’s probably out luck if he’s hoping for workers’...
Nov 10 2021 // Who would have thought, given what many have called a crisis in the Florida property insurance market, that an insurance company would decide it could improve its bottom line by focusing solely on the storm-plagued...
Nov 5 2021 // Hub International, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired Rider Insurance Group, an agency based in Fort Myers, Florida. Rider provides personal lines and commercial insurance, including...
Nov 5 2021 // Florida juries in the last month have returned two hefty verdicts in favor of plaintiffs, one for a slip and fall at a Walmart and one for the death of a stroke patient at a hospital.In Apopka, near Orlando, a jury awarded...
Nov 5 2021 // A week after a federal court found that waiting two years to file a property claim is too long, a state court reached a different conclusion: Failing to timely file supporting documents on a claim does not necessarily harm...
Nov 3 2021 // Few things enrage insurers more than what appear to be exorbitant attorney fees, and Florida may be ground-zero on that issue, thanks in part to the state’s fee-multiplier statute. So, industry advocates were...
Nov 1 2021 // Cameras are everywhere these days, a Florida man learned after authorities say he faked the theft of a pricey motorcycle in order to gain an insurance payout.Jeffrey Stephens, 27, was arrested Friday on fraud charges, the...