Category: Archive – Seminars
Oct 29, 2008
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation–October 29, 2008 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty Tuesday issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates that will become …
Oct 29, 2008
Disbarred lawyer will spend a year in prison for stealing insurance funds CFO Sink–October 29, 2008 PEMBROKE PINES – Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced today that a South Florida attorney has been disbarred and has been ordered to …
Oct 29, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel–October 29, 2008 Bob LaMendola Florida’s Medicaid program underpaid nursing homes by $214 million in 2006 and will fall short by a like amount this year as a result of an ongoing, national funding gap, according to a …
Oct 29, 2008
Insurance Journal–October 28, 2008 Tennessee-based Appalachian Underwriters Inc. established a commercial brokerage division and will open a new office in Sarasota, Fla. to house the new operation. AUI will focus on property and casualty risks that are unique, unusual or …
Oct 29, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel–October 28, 2008 By Aaron Deslatte Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE With the presidential election still a week out, nearly one-fifth of Florida’s electorate has already cast ballots. And Florida Democrats are claiming they’ve got an edge over …
Oct 29, 2008
By M.P. MCQUEEN Many owners of variable annuities have endured a double whammy lately: Their investment-account balances have taken a hit, as have the financial-strength ratings on the insurers that issued their annuities. Agents and brokers say they’ve received …
Oct 28, 2008
St. Petersburg Times–October 28, 2008 By Jennifer Liberto, Times Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE — State Farm Florida began to plead its case Monday, explaining to a judge why it needs to raise property insurance rates by 47.1 percent, an increase regulators …
Oct 28, 2008
Sarasota Herald-Tribune–October 27, 2008 The Associated Press MIAMI – President Bush on Monday declared a major disaster area existed in six Florida counties affected by Hurricane Gustav in late August and early September. With the declaration, federal funding was made …
Oct 28, 2008
CFO’s Press Release–October 28, 2008 TALLAHASSEE— Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink’s investigators recently helped Kikuko West, a Vero Beach senior, recover more than $217,000 in potential losses after she allegedly was tricked into prematurely replacing an existing annuity …
Oct 28, 2008
Insurance Journal–October 28, 2008 Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty appointed John McBride as legislative affairs director. McBride will report to Chief of Staff Audrey Brown. McBride comes to the Office of Insurance Regulation from his most recent position as chief …