All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 11 2020 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” from “a-” of Tower Hill Prime Insurance...
Dec 10 2020 // For first party property claims, lengthy and costly litigation is not always the only mechanism for resolving a dispute. Most homeowner’s policies include detailed terms and conditions for parties to undergo...
Dec 9 2020 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)’s filing for a statewide overall decrease of 6.6% for Florida workers’...
Dec 8 2020 // Residents in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities will be the first to get a coronavirus vaccine when Florida begins receiving it later this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.DeSantis’ priorities, announced in in...
Dec 7 2020 // A firefighter and two residents were injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak at a home in Bradenton, Fla., fire officials said.The residents were taken to a hospital on Wednesday afternoon for treatment of their...
Nov 30 2020 // State fire marshals are investigating a suspicious fire that engulfed a shopping center early Thanksgiving morning. The fire at the Village Plaza shopping center in Daytona Beach broke out at about 4 a.m. Thursday and...
Nov 30 2020 // Property & Casualty insurance executive Tracy Brown has been named manager of the Private Client Division at Century Risk Advisors, Inc. (CRA), an independent insurance agency offering insurance and risk management...
Nov 23 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Mike Cuevas to the firm’s Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., office. Mike Cuevas Cuevas has more than 30 years of experience with previous stops at Coastal Premier and Van...
Nov 19 2020 // T.H.E. Insurance Company (T.H.E.), an AXA XL insurance company and a McGowan Allied Specialty Insurance partner, has been upgraded to A+ (Superior)/XV by AM Best.This recent AM Best upgrade to A+ XV affirms the financial...
Nov 18 2020 // After a tumultuous year that included double-digit rate increases, an intervention by the state regulator and a merger, Florida-based insurer Southern Fidelity Insurance Co. (SFIC) and its affiliated entities have ceded a...
Nov 17 2020 // Chicago, IL, November 13, 2020 – Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (“PPCI”) successfully resolved a trucking case that went to jury trial in Florida resulting in a jury verdict of just under...
Nov 17 2020 // Several changes came to Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Board of Governors this month with two new appointments and the approval of one board member to serve as a representative for the Florida Insurance...
Nov 16 2020 // After hanging over Florida for several days, the former Tropical Storm Eta became a post-tropical cyclone early Friday, racing off the Southeast Atlantic coast and bringing heavy rains and gusty winds to the Carolinas...