Category: Archive – Seminars

  Insurance Issues Loom Large on Legislature’s Agenda Will this finally be the year the Florida Legislature breaks the stalemate between Insurers and Trial Lawyers over so-called Abusive Water Claims?  The Sun-Sentinel’s Ron Hurtibise reports. ·         Bill Seeks to Promote …

  Insurance Companies Have Plenty to Worry About as Florida’s Legislative Session Opens The Insurance Industry already has a good idea how one of its top priorities for the 2017 Legislative Session seems likely to go.  It found out when …

  Florida Senate:  Higher Workers’ Comp Rates Here to Stay Republican Rob Bradley of Fleming Island says his goal is rate stabilization.  Jim Ash reports for WUSF.   Attorneys’ fees protected in rival insurance claims reform bill Freshman Senator Gary …

  2017 Florida Insurance Legislation to Watch The Florida Insurance Market has been a hotbed of controversy over the last year, and many are looking at the Florida State Legislature to alleviate some of the concerns coming from Consumers, Businesses …

  Employee Stole $1M From Fort Lauderdale Insurer, Investigators Say A Coral Springs Woman who worked as a Customer Service Representative for a Fort Lauderdale-Based Insurance Company funneled more than $1 Million of the Company’s money to her own Bank …

  First Florida Bill Addressing AOB Introduced for 2017 Session Senate Bill 1038, Filed February 17 by State Senator Dorothy Hukill and Co-Sponsored by Senator Kathleen Passidomo seeks to clarify the intent of the Assignment of Benefits Provision for Policyholders …

  Border Adjustment Would Sock Florida with Hugely Higher Insurance Rates In recent years, Congress repeatedly has considered Legislation that would have adversely and profoundly impacted Disaster-Prone States like Florida.  Luckily, we were spared passage, over and over again.  Right …

  Insurance Losses Demand Action From State Lawmakers Hurricane Season is still more than three months away, but a different kind of tempest is threatening Florida Property Insurers, their Policyholders and the State’s Economy.  The Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board weighs …

  Crisis?  Maybe, But Top Florida Insurer Says Severity of AOB Claims Falling Florida’s largest Property Insurer says its Average Cost is going down, not up, for Claims associated with what many in the Industry call a Crisis requiring Immediate …

  U.S. Senator Bill Nelson Says Demotech Downgrades Risk Mass Florida Homeowner Disaster U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson urged Federal Officials Tuesday to take any Actions necessary to prevent a “Disaster ” if mass numbers of Florida Homeowners go into default …