Category: Archive – Seminars

Rampant Medicare fraud suspected in Miami

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. …

Creator of catastrophe risk model broadens focus

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 …

Insurance-Related Meetings for the Month of October

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. …

State-backed insurer backs off plan for new office

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 …

Florida-based Main Street America Acquires Great Lakes Casualty

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 …

Under state scrutiny, Citrus Health Care stops marketing

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 …

Insurers may face class-action lawsuit

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 …

COLODNY FASS JOINS NAPSLO

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 …

2008 Fall Surplus Lines Law Group Meeting

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, …