All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2021 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters.Officials in Florida...
Apr 5 2021 // The computer system of one of the nation’s largest school districts was hacked by a criminal gang that encrypted district data and demanded $40 million in ransom or it would erase the files and post students’...
Apr 1 2021 // As companies continue to adapt to COVID-19, it is evident that one of the long-lasting effects of the novel coronavirus will be the increased number of permanent work from home accommodations.According to a recent Gallup...
Mar 31 2021 // Florida businesses, governments and healthcare providers will be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a bill signed by Republican Gov....
Mar 30 2021 // Centauri insurance companies (Centauri Specialty Insurance Co. and Centauri National Insurance Co.) have sustained their financial stability rating of “A” (Exceptional) from Demotech, after being strengthened...
Mar 30 2021 // The family of a 19-year-old student with autism will receive a $2 million settlement from a Florida school district a year and a half after he choked on a chicken nugget and died.The settlement approved by the Palm Beach...
Mar 29 2021 // Officials are trying to determine what caused a fire early Friday that destroyed a historic Black church in northeast Florida.Clay County Fire Rescue tweeted that no one was injured in the fire that started around 11 p.m....
Mar 29 2021 // Florida businesses, governments and healthcare providers will be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a bill the House sent to...
Mar 26 2021 // Two bills designed to deal with Florida’s crumbling property insurance market have embarked on divergent paths in the state legislature as lawmakers approach the final weeks of the 2021 session.Senate Bill 76 and...
Mar 25 2021 // Alera Group, an employee benefits, financial services and risk management company, has acquired E3 Outsource, an employee benefits management and technology firm. The acquisition became effective March 1, 2021. The E3...
Mar 24 2021 // A Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy was heading east on Interstate 4 in his red Dodge Charger on a brilliantly sunny afternoon in Florida when he saw him: A young driver behind the wheel of a Jeep texting on his...
Mar 24 2021 // Independent insurance and risk management agency Century Risk Advisors (CRA) has named Ramon Lo as director of Marketing.In this role, Lo will spearhead CRA’s branding and marketing initiatives. Prior to joining CRA,...
Mar 22 2021 // A Florida man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for lying about damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Steven Rembert, 49, of Orange County, was sentenced Monday in Orlando federal court, according to court...
Mar 22 2021 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will conduct a virtual rate hearing this week on a proposed 24.9% rate increase filed by National Specialty Insurance Co. for its homeowners multi-peril lines of business.Velocity...
Mar 22 2021 // While carriers face growing financial losses in Florida’s distressed property insurance market, insurance agents are on the front lines trying to help their clients who are being hit with double-digit rate increases,...
Mar 19 2021 // Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., has become the insurer of first resort as thousands of new policies flood into it each week and the private homeowners insurance market continues...
Mar 18 2021 // Florida Casualty Insurance Co. (FCIC), formerly Ashmere Insurance Co., has been acquired by Applied Underwriters and will become part of Applied’s national and international development plan. The newly re-branded,...
Mar 17 2021 // Florida lawmakers plunged deeper Monday into the politically fraught task of attempting to regulate social media and other Big Tech companies, which some Republicans accuse of bias against conservatives.The House...
Mar 17 2021 // Ratings agency Demotech has affirmed the ‘A’ ratings of the Florida homeowners carriers it rates, which account for approximately 66% of the state’s market, after review of 2020 year-end and projected Q1...
Mar 16 2021 // A federal lawsuit contends that a Florida sheriff is violating people’s rights through an intelligence-based policing program that improperly targets and harasses them. The sheriff rejects those claims.The lawsuit...