All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 14 2021 // After extending the moratorium on cancellations and nonrenewals put into place at the start of the pandemic, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has announced it will resume processing these as of Feb. 1, 2021.The Florida...
Jan 13 2021 // A delivery driver was killed Sunday night when a load of construction materials fell on him at a Home Depot store in Florida, police said.News outlets report that a load of drywall struck 47-year-old Cyrenus Leroy Amon...
Jan 13 2021 // Florida homeowners’ insurance specialists are reporting continued performance deterioration and a decline in capitalization levels, despite the most severe losses from the record 2020 hurricane season occurring...
Jan 11 2021 // SUNZ Holdings, LLC has announced that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities have acquired a significant stake in the company to help fuel SUNZ’s continued expansion. Terms of the transaction were not...
Jan 11 2021 // Florida’s fluctuating and volatile private market may be instigating long-term policy growth for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and creating serious obstacles to its position as the state’s residual insurer,...
Jan 8 2021 // Lockton Companies has hired Michele Centeno as a senior vice president in its Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office.In her role, Centeno will further expand Lockton’s client service options in the professional and financial...
Jan 7 2021 // The board of directors of LUBA Workers’ Comp, a regional casualty insurance company insuring businesses across the Gulf South, has approved the acquisition of Florida based FHM Insurance Services. FHM Insurance Co.,...
Jan 6 2021 // The way liability claims are litigated in Florida will dramatically change, possibly shifting the balance of power in pre-trial negotiations closer to favoring defendants and their insurance companies after the Florida...
Jan 5 2021 // An appellate court in Florida has upheld the right of policyholders to assign their right to collect benefits from an insurance claim to contractors, reversing trial court rulings in favor of insurers.The Florida 3rd...
Jan 4 2021 // Former Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections Julie Jones has been appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer within the Office of Chief Financial Officer, according to a statement from the Florida Department of...
Dec 30 2020 // Constellation Affiliated Partners has acquired Florida-based MGU Coastal Insurance Underwriters and Cybercom. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Coastal Insurance Underwriters, founded by President and...
Dec 29 2020 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will have officers for 2021. The newly-elected officers will assume their duties on Jan. 1, 2021.Members of the association of regulators elected these leaders for...
Dec 23 2020 // Insurance advisory organization AAIS (American Association of Insurance Services) has received approval from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation for its new predictive model. The AAIS Fire Loss and Mitigation...
Dec 22 2020 // Florida’s fluctuating and volatile private market may be instigating long-term policy growth for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and creating serious obstacles to its position as the state’s residual insurer,...
Dec 22 2020 // Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company,...
Dec 21 2020 // Red tide is back in the waters off of Florida’s southwest coast, making birds sick and killing fish, according to a state environmental agency update on Wednesday.While satellite imagery isn’t picking up the...
Dec 18 2020 // A fire early Thursday killed as many as 240,000 chickens at a Florida farm operated by one of the nation’s largest egg producers.The Pasco County fire department reports that three barns each containing up to 80,000...
Dec 18 2020 // A tornado damaged vehicles and buildings on Wednesday while leaving thousands without power in Florida’s Tampa Bay area, authorities said.Most of the damage was in Pinellas County, north of St. Petersburg, the Tampa...
Dec 18 2020 // Roger L. Desjadon, CEO of Florida Peninsula Insurance family of companies, will retire next year. Desjadon is a co-founder of Florida Peninsula Insurance Company and has served as CEO since its inception in 2005.In the...
Dec 15 2020 // A Florida school district abruptly dropped its request Thursday that the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre be required to turn over their social media posts from that period as it tries to...