Category: Archive – Seminars
Jan 1, 2008
Sarasota Herald Tribune, 1/1/2008 ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Travelers Cos. Inc., one of the nation’s largest commercial insurers, has settled a lawsuit and separately will pay $6 million to settle several state investigations over how it paid brokers, the …
Jan 1, 2008
Pensacola News Journal, 1/1/2008 TALLAHASSEE – Only five new laws took effect today, but ignoring one big legal requirement could get Florida drivers in a lot of trouble. A section of the restored no-fault/personal injury protection insurance law requires drivers …
Jan 1, 2008
Palm Beach Post, 1/1/2008 The party’s over. And no, we’re not talking about New Year’s Eve. Mandatory no-fault auto insurance is back today, and the million-plus Florida drivers who’ve been pocketing hundreds of dollars in premium savings since October because …
Jan 1, 2008
Orlando Sentinel, 1/1/2008 Florida is the largest workers’ compensation insurance market in the nation dominated by private market insurers, according to a state report released this morning. The annual report to the Florida Legislature on the state of the market …
Jan 1, 2008
By Bill Cotterell FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU POLITICAL EDITOR Gov. Charlie Crist has seen the end of an eight-year decline in state employment, but the average salaries of workers in Florida’s government agencies and their rate of pay raises lag behind …
Jan 1, 2008
By Mike Vogel – 1/1/2008 Chasing opportunity, several companies last year took 225,000 policies off the hands of Florida’s state-subsidized insurer, Citizens Property Insurance. Meanwhile, Hollywood-based property management company Continental Group launched a self-insurance fund offering property coverage to the …
Jan 1, 2008
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Property taxes didn’t "drop like a rock" during Gov. Charlie Crist’s first year in office, but neither did his approval rating. The Republican weathered a difficult year well, despite making only modest gains on two of the …
Dec 26, 2007
BY ARTHUR D. POSTALNU Online News Service, Dec. 26, 1:13 p.m. EST Groups representing captive insurers made a concerted appeal to the Internal Revenue Service asking it to withdraw a proposal that would change the way captives deduct losses, saying …
Dec 26, 2007
BY ARTHUR D. POSTALNU Online News Service, Dec. 26, 4:01 p.m. EST WASHINGTON —President Bush today signed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act extending the federal backstop on terrorism risk insurance until the end of 2014. The bill (H.R. 2761 – …
Dec 26, 2007
By Josh Hafenbrack South Florida Sun-Sentinel December 26, 2007 Jack Kanjian loves dinosaurs. He’s writing a book about his favorites on colored construction paper, illustrated with crayons. When he grows up, Jack wants to run a prehistoric zoo — with …