Category: Archive – Seminars
Jun 5, 2008
Insurance Journal–June 4, 2008 By Brian Kern When Florida lawmakers passed asbestos legislation in 2005, they muddied the waters for plaintiffs afflicted with asbestosis who were in the throes of litigation. The state’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has now …
Jun 5, 2008
Palm Beach Post–June 05, 2008 Palm Beach Post Editorial It’s never easy to get a straight answer from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even at its highest levels. A few months after Director David Paulison promised to stop using trailers …
Jun 5, 2008
The Gainesville Sun–June 4, 2008 By Anthony ClarkSun business editor Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink personally delivered a check for $159,403.19 to Gainesville homebuilder G.W. Robinson on Tuesday to raise awareness about unclaimed property. The state is holding $1.5 …
Jun 4, 2008
News-Journal–June 03, 2008 By MARK HARPERStaff writer DELAND — Out-of-towners take note: There’s another reason to avoid being at fault in an accident requiring police or fire response in the city limits. You or your insurance company will be billed …
Jun 4, 2008
The sale of bonds — and levies on insurance policies — could help pay off outstanding claims. Aaron DeslatteTallahassee BureauOrlando Sentinel–June 4, 2008 TALLAHASSEE–Whether you realize it or not, you’re still paying off the 2005 hurricane season every time you …
Jun 4, 2008
National Underwriter–June 3, 2008 BY SUSANNE SCLAFANE NU Online News Service NEW YORK —The size of the next catastrophe to impact property-casualty reinsurers won’t determine whether it’s a market-turning event, said global reinsurance executives, instead suggesting that the element of …
Jun 4, 2008
National Underwriter–June 3, 2008 NU Online News Service Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. said it has acquired Stockton, Calif.-based insurance agency Debock & Muth Insurance Agency Inc. Terms of the deal were not released. Debock & …
Jun 4, 2008
Houston Chronicle–June 3, 2008 MarketWire News Releases FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — (MARKET WIRE) — 06/03/08 — Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. (“UIH”) (UVE), a vertically integrated insurance holding company, announced the completion by Universal Property and Casualty Insurance Company (“UPCIC”), the …
Jun 4, 2008
The state Department of Children & Families has reached an $850,000 settlement with a man who said he was sexually abused as a child at a now-defunct foster home in Lauderdale Lakes.
Jun 3, 2008
State regulators denied Hartford’s rate request, but the company can still ask a state appeals court for one last review. BY BEATRICE E. GARCIA Miami Herald–June 3, 2008 State regulators denied a nearly 40 percent insurance rate increase sought by …