Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Friday, March 28
Mar 28, 2008
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Citizens Insurance surplus could be tapped
Money earmarked to pay future Citizens Property Insurance claims could end up funding a program to provide additional capital for young insurers and start-ups.
OPINION: Citizens, consider adding auto insurance
The conundrum the Florida state legislators find themselves in, as reported in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, is what extent should they modify the property tax insurance law passed last year.
Bill extends state-funded loans, helping companies boost capital reserves
After two consecutive quiet hurricane seasons, competition is gradually returning to Florida’s property insurance market.
Insurance rates again take up Legislature’s time
A year after making sweeping property insurance changes, Florida legislators are divided between maintaining a consumer-friendly face or allowing homeowner premiums to start inching up.
EDITORIAL: Our position: Crist needs to get involved in legislative effort on property insurance
Almost midway through the session in Tallahassee, legislative leaders are making more sense than not as they try to get the state and its homeowners to weather the property-insurance crisis.
EDITORIAL: Insurance risks still looming
With the state capital consumed by the budget crisis, the property insurance crisis is no longer center stage.
Insurance commissioners group to meet in Orlando this weekend
Insurance regulators, researchers, consumer advocates and insurance company representatives from throughout the country are converging on Orlando this weekend.
Fla. Supreme Court sends back two hurricane-damage lawsuits
The march back to trial courts continues for the hundreds of homeowners still trying to settle insurance claims from the hurricanes of 2004.
Staffing cuts weighed for nursing homes
In a move that one Miami nursing-home operator called a return to the ”dark ages,” Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives want to suspend a state law that mandates how much care nursing-home patients must receive each day.
Tax break lays an egg, but lingers
Ostriches, they’re, uh, sort of like chickens. Meaner birds, leaner meat.
Dade mayor, House speaker clash on money
In a prologue to a possible showdown in this summer’s race for county mayor, House Speaker Marco Rubio and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez continued attacking each other Thursday over county spending and property-tax reform.
Undaunted Nelson Urges Major Political Reforms
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says he fully intended to equate the taking away of Florida’s Democratic presidential delegates to historical wrongs such as slavery or denying women and minorities the right to vote.
Bankrupt TOUSA seek to tap insurance to pay legal costs
Hollywood builder TOUSA Inc. wants to tap $15 million of insurance coverage to pay legal costs that its officers and directors have racked up defending themselves against a shareholder class-action lawsuit.
Florida-based FCCI Insurance Group Deploys Guidewire ClaimCenter
Commercial property and casualty insurer, FCCI Insurance Group of Sarasota, Fla., and Guidewire Software- announced that FCCI has successfully deployed Guidewire ClaimCenter- as its all-in-one claims system.
Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing FEMA Trailer; Faces 10 Years
A 51-year-old Lake Wales man who stole a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer issued to a victim of Hurricane Jeanne pleaded guilty today to theft of government property, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
AIG Sues Former CEO Greenberg and 6 Ex-Directors
American International Group Inc., the world’s largest insurer, has filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court against former Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and six other former directors and officers, accusing them of breaching their fiduciary duty.
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