Category: Archive – Seminars
Oct 6, 2008
USA Today–October 5, 2008 By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY Home health care costs charged to Medicare in the Miami area have risen 20 times the national average in the past five years, prompting a federal investigation of suspected fraudulent billing. …
Oct 6, 2008
Karen Clark created the first computer model to help insurers better gauge the losses they might face after a major catastrophe. Now she is working with insurers to use the models more wisely. BY BEATRICE E. GARCIAMiami Herald–October 6, 2008 …
Oct 6, 2008
Insurance-Related Meetings: Month of October, 2008 Week of October 6-10 Monday, October 6 NAIC The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) held a regulator-to-regulator meeting of the International Solvency and Accounting Working Group on Monday, October 6 at 11:00 a.m. …
Oct 2, 2008
Gainesville Sun–October 1, 2008 The Associated Press In the wake of criticism by key lawmakers, the state-backed property and casualty insurer, Citizens, is backing off plans to seek a new, larger office complex that once included a gymnasium, cafeteria and …
Oct 2, 2008
Insurance Journal–October 2, 2008 The Main Street America Group, based in Jacksonville, Fla., completed its acquisition of Great Lakes Casualty Insurance Co., a Michigan-domiciled private passenger auto insurance carrier, from Newco Financial Holdings Inc. All Great Lakes personnel have become …
Oct 2, 2008
Naples Daily News–October 2, 2008 By Staff reports NAPLES — The U.S. Senate passed legislation Monday correcting a federal mapping error that has prevented Naples Cay residents from participating in the Federal Flood Insurance Program. The House passed similar legislation …
Oct 2, 2008
Florida Health News–October 1, 2008 By Christine Giordano Even as MD Medicare Choice was collapsing this week, another Tampa-based Medicare plan that has been under state scrutiny over its finances stopped writing new business. Citrus Health Care, which has 41,000 …
Oct 2, 2008
Bradenton Herald–October 2, 2008 Gov. Crist is pushing for a class-action lawsuit against the property-insurance industry, saying it is cheating Florida homeowners. Railing against the failure of the insurance industry to pass on savings to Floridians after the state took …
Oct 2, 2008
For Immediate Release COLODNY FASS JOINS NAPSLO Firm joins nationally recognized voice of surplus lines Fort Lauderdale, Florida (October 2, 2008) — Colodny Fass, P.A. has become a member of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO), a national …
Oct 2, 2008
> 2008 Fall Surplus Lines Law Group Meeting The Florida Surplus Lines Law Group will hold its 2008 Fall Meeting, sponsored by the American Association of Managing General Agents, Colodny Fass, and the Florida Surplus Lines Service Office from Thursday, …