Category: Archive – Seminars

COLUMN: Crisis looms for Florida’s hurricane catastrophe fund

Oct 22, 2008

Sarasota Herald–October 22, 2008 By SAM MILLER GUEST COLUMNIST The Advisory Council to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund acknowledged last week that the fund’s real claims-paying capacity is only about half what it promised to Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and …

County expands family health insurance

Oct 22, 2008

Palm Beach Post–October 21, 2008 By JENNIFER SORENTRUEPalm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — Is 30 the new 25? It soon will be for Palm Beach County employees, who will be able to keep their unmarried adult children …

Environmentalists, auto dealers clash over emission standards

Oct 22, 2008

Tallahassee Democrat–October 22, 2008 By Jim Ash FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU CHIEF Environmentalists turned up the heat Tuesday on Florida regulators ahead of next week’s crucial vote to adopt California-style auto emission standards. “We think that this is an extraordinarily important …

Citizens Meetings

Oct 22, 2008

> Citizens Meetings Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will hold the following meetings on Wednesday, October 22 at the Tampa Airport Marriott, Tampa, Florida and via teleconference. Audit Committee — 9:00 a.m. the call-in number for this meeting is: 877.260.2826 Financial …

FEMA Aid Comes Late for Some Homeowners

Oct 21, 2008

First Coast News–October 21, 2008 Posted By: Ashley Coleman MIDDLEBURG, FL — Two months after Tropical Storm Fay, most of the First Coast has bounced back. But people living in two counties are just now getting help. "It’s about time," …

Brown & Brown: Revenues Up Even as Insurance Prices Falling

Oct 21, 2008

Insurance Journal–October 21, 2008 Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. reported that its total commissions and fees revenues for the third quarter of 2008 increased 8.1 percent over the third quarter of 2007. While revenues were up, net income …

Make sure you register for FEMA assistance before Nov. 10

Oct 21, 2008

Treasure Coast Palm–October 21, 2008 By Staff report TALLAHASSEE — Nov. 10 is the final day for Floridians to register for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance. Florida residents in 27 designated counties who had property damage or other losses as …

Miami doctor, nurse guilty of Medicare fraud

Oct 21, 2008

The brothers who owned the clinic involved in an $11 million Medicare scam fled to Cuba. A doctor and nurse who worked in the clinic were convicted of fraud. BY JAY WEAVER Miami Herald–October 21, 2008 A Miami doctor and …