All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2021 // Check out Insurance Journal’s recent special edition on Florida including a special report on new legislation to help Floridians who are battling the state’s property insurance crisis. This legislation aims to...
Jun 10 2021 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he will sign recently-passed legislation addressing property insurance costs and roofing contractor practices while adding that he believes that the state needs to do more to curb excess...
Jun 10 2021 // RMS remains first and only risk modeling company to offer hurricane models certified by the FCHPLM on both on-premises software and a cloud platform simultaneouslyNewark, Calif. – June 10, 2021 – Today, RMS, the...
Jun 9 2021 // A Pensacola, Florida insurance agent has bee charged with selling fraudulent insurance policies to his clients in exchange for approximately $4 million in insurance premium payments.Jason R. Coody, acting U.S. Attorney for...
Jun 8 2021 // Investment firm PEAK6 announced that its insurance operations subsidiary, PEAK6 InsurTech, will acquire Team Focus Insurance Group, a Sunrise, Fla.-based property/casualty insurance firm that includes MacNeill Group, a...
Jun 8 2021 // Attorneys who are hired by insurance carriers to defend policyholders from lawsuits have a duty to represent the insured, but the insurer is paying their fees.Obviously, the insurer has a financial interest in the outcome...
Jun 7 2021 // The estate of a Florida plastic surgeon who died in 2019 when his small plane crashed in a central Indiana farm field shortly after takeoff has settled its lawsuit with the city of Kokomo, Indiana.The estate of Daniel...
Jun 7 2021 // Florida has 90,000 private flood insurance policies in force now– a 300% increase since passing legislation to encourage private insurers to offer the coverage in 2014, according to Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Jun 4 2021 // Security First Insurance, one of the largest private homeowners insurers, has launched its Homeowner’s Premier HO5 policy.Floridians must have no claims or one claim caused by a weather event and with...
Jun 4 2021 // Florida has again taken the top spot for strongest building code with Virginia right behind in second place.That’s according to the 2021 edition of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) report...
Jun 4 2021 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —For years, Florida has been reminding motorists not to use flashing hazard lights while driving.Well starting soon, feel free to flash away _ but only on the highway. And only in heavy rain or...
Jun 1 2021 // A bill passed by the Florida Legislature to address the state’s property insurance crisis has created optimism among some stakeholders, while others say it will not reduce rates over the next 18 to 24 months or stop...
May 28 2021 // Two tech trade groups filed a lawsuit against Florida on Thursday over a new law that would fine social media companies that ban political candidates, which they said violated free speech rights.The lawsuit, which said the...
May 27 2021 // A firefighting helicopter with four people on board crashed near an airport in central Florida, killing at least one person, officials said.The helicopter crashed into a marsh near Leesburg International Airport during a...
May 27 2021 // AM Best’s composite of Florida property insurance companies hit five-year performance and surplus lows in 2020, and given persisting and significant market hurdles, companies will find sustaining current surplus...
May 25 2021 // The Florida Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion last month further amending the federal summary judgment standard it officially adopted last year.The move came as part of the court’s Dec. 31, 2020 opinion In...
May 21 2021 // The owner of a Florida construction business has been arrested for allegedly concealing payroll information to avoid paying more than $718,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, according to a statement from the...
May 18 2021 // The right to protest in America is a fundamental right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects both the “freedom of speech” and the “right of the people...
May 17 2021 // A Florida judge ruled Thursday that two deputies who were fired for inaction during a high school mass shooting in 2018 should be reinstated with back pay.Broward Circuit Judge Keathan Frink concluded that arbitrators last...
May 14 2021 // Two men who relocate gopher tortoises are suing Florida’s wildlife commission, saying they should be awarded at least $500,000 in damages because the agency violated due process by prematurely revoking their...