All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 27 2020 // A sinkhole that opened earlier this month in a north Florida neighborhood expanded on Thursday, leading officials to urge residents from six nearby homes to evacuate.Johnnie Candiano, 22, his brother Beau Candiano, 20, and...
Oct 19 2020 // SageSure, a homeowners insurtech, has launched a new line of commercial insurance products in traditionally underserved coastal markets.Launching in South Carolina followed by Florida, SageSure’s commercial product...
Oct 16 2020 // Gemini Financial Holdings Corporation (GFHC), the parent company of Olympus Insurance Co., has hired John W. Rollins to the role of chief financial officer, effective Oct. 19, 2020.Rollins has 30 years of experience as a...
Oct 16 2020 // The aftereffects of 2017’s Hurricane Irma appear to have killed more than 400 senior residents of Florida nursing homes, a new university study shows.Researchers at the University of South Florida and Brown...
Oct 14 2020 // Clearwater, Fla.-based technology and product distribution company, Ensurem, recently hired Jamie Needham as chief marketing officer (CMO).As CMO, Needham is responsible for the vision, strategic direction and performance...
Oct 12 2020 // Lockton Global Marine has added Kyle Lochridge and Jake Byrne as vice presidents and account executives. They are based in South Florida.Lochridge has over 13 years of experience in marine insurance with a focus on blue...
Oct 9 2020 // Parents who sued a school district after their children died in a mass shooting at a Florida high school are being asked to turn over their psychiatric records to prove they have suffered mental anguish.The Broward County...
Oct 9 2020 // The board of directors of AssuredPartners has appointed Thomas E. Riley as chief executive officer.Jim Henderson, the current CEO, will assume the role of executive chairman. The transition will be effective January 1,...
Oct 9 2020 // A construction company owner was arrested last month for workers’ compensation premium fraud after allegedly concealing payroll information to avoid paying more than $95,000 in workers’ compensation...
Oct 8 2020 // After launching in Florida as a flood insurer in 2016 and expanding into the homeowners market in 2018, TypTap Insurance Co. has officially started the process of becoming a nationwide company.The technology-driven insurer...
Oct 8 2020 // AMS Professional Liability, a wholesale broker in the state of Florida, and Allsouth Professional Liability, a brokerage specializing in professional liability insurance in the southeastern United States, have been...
Oct 6 2020 // California is on fire. Already this year, thousands of people have lost their homes, and communities are struggling to figure out how to rebuild. Nikki Pechet wants to be the person they turn to.Pechet co-founded Homebound...
Oct 6 2020 // Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance Co. has promoted Jay Rine to president and new hire, Trevor Hillier will assume the role chief financial officer and treasurer.Rine joined Cypress in 2017, most recently serving as...
Oct 5 2020 // A federal judge in Florida late last month denied an insurer’s petition to dismiss a COVID-19 business-interruption lawsuit, while a federal magistrate judge in California threw out a similar claim.Both lawsuits were...
Oct 5 2020 // Tropical Storm Beta made landfall on the central Texas coast on Sept. 21 as the 23rd named storm of the hyperactive 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and the third to hit the Gulf Coast this year.Slow moving Beta dumped heavy...
Sep 30 2020 // CaseGlide, LLC, a provider of claims litigation management software for claims organizations, has added Russ Smith as chief technology officer (CTO).A software industry veteran of more than two decades, Smith comes to St....
Sep 30 2020 // One of the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is that I found myself able to watch a live courtroom proceeding from the comfort of my desk at home (work). The idea of this was totally fascinating to me...
Sep 30 2020 // Embattled Florida attorney Scot Strems, who, with his firm, has filed thousands of assignment of benefit and first party lawsuits against Florida property insurers over the last several years, has been found by a...
Sep 29 2020 // Evan Glassman saw a gap in the property insurance market—literally.Glassman, working as a retail producer in south Florida for most of his career, realized that the insurance industry’s products were not fully...
Sep 29 2020 // The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school district can’t be forced to pay more than $300,000 total to the victims or their families in the Parkland high school massacre that left 17 people dead and...