All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2018 // Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., a Florida-based property and casualty insurance holding company, has added Arash Soleimani to its management team as an executive vice president and director of Investor...
Sep 7 2018 // NSI Insurance Group has expanded its South Florida operations through a merger with Weinstein Insurance Services, an independent agency in Coral Gables, Fla. Weinstein Insurance Services President Jay Weinstein and his...
Sep 6 2018 // Officials say a crane collapsed onto a house in a Florida neighborhood, tearing a large gash in its roof. The Orlando Fire Department says the crane fell over Tuesday in the upscale Baldwin Park neighborhood. No injuries...
Sep 5 2018 // Florida’s top insurance regulator has issued a warning to residents facing damage from Tropical Storm Gordon, the first major storm to impact the state in the 2018 Hurricane Season.Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Sep 4 2018 // Tropical Storm Gordon weakened after making landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border and lashing the U.S. Gulf Coast with high winds and heavy rain early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)...
Sep 3 2018 // Reinsurers expressed different views of loss developments related to Hurricane Irma, when executives reviewed the impact of the Florida event on second-quarter earnings reports last month.Everest Re was among those...
Sep 3 2018 // Christopher Gardner, chairman of the Board of Governors of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s insurer of last resort, has resigned.Gary Aubuchon, formerly vice chair, has been appointed interim chair by...
Aug 31 2018 // Holman Insurance Services, a full-service brokerage offering personal and commercial insurance products headquartered in New Jersey, has expanded its personal insurance coverage into the Florida market.Offering a...
Aug 30 2018 // A champion gamer’s decision to open fire Sunday afternoon during a video competition in Jacksonville, Fla. – killing two people and wounding nine others before killing himself – has prompted calls from gamers for...
Aug 29 2018 // Mid-year results for U.S. property/casualty insurers and reinsurers show they are on the mend following a trying 2017, according to Fitch Ratings.Operating performance moderately improved for P/C (re)insurers during the...
Aug 29 2018 // Florida businesses could see another significant rate decrease in workers’ compensation rates next year if Florida regulators approve the latest filing from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI).But...
Aug 28 2018 // A serial Florida arsonist has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of 2nd degree arson in Palm Beach County for setting fires to $300,000 worth of RVs, according to a statement from Florida CFO and State Fire Marshal...
Aug 27 2018 // The Villages Insurance Partners (TVIP) has promoted Rose Connell to Personal Lines executive manager. Connell’s new leadership role will have her working directly with the Personal Lines division to ensure client...
Aug 24 2018 // Christopher Gardner, chairman of the Board of Governors of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s insurer of last resort, has resigned.Gary Aubuchon, formerly vice chair, has been appointed as interim chair by...
Aug 23 2018 // Patricia and Jeff Rodgers figured they did everything right to get rich beyond their wildest dreams selling Herbalife health and personal care products. They attended all of the “Circle of Success” events,...
Aug 23 2018 // Former Jacksonville Jaguars NFL player and assistant coach Marlon Tarron McCree has been arrested for insurance fraud totaling nearly $78,000, according to a statement from Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy...
Aug 22 2018 // International insurance and reinsurance company DARAG and U.S.-based acquisition specialist SOBC have formed a joint venture with SOBC DARAG in Delaware to support DARAG’s expansion into the U.S. and...
Aug 21 2018 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), the Tampa, Fla.-based insurance distribution and consulting holding company, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Valentine as chief partnership officer.Valentine joins BRP with more...
Aug 21 2018 // Everest Re was among those negatively impacted, with a preannounced net reserve charge of $250 million after taxes pushing net income down to $69.9 million, a figure more than 70 percent lower than last year’s...
Aug 20 2018 // Cabrillo Coastal General Insurance Agency, headquartered in Gainesville, Fla., is now offering a flood endorsement for new or existing homeowners policies for their admitted programs in Florida.Cabrillo’s flood...