Category: Archive – Seminars

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   Insurers face more than $500M in losses Insured losses from the roaring wildfires in California are expected to exceed $500 million ranking among the five most damaging wildfires since 1970, …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   OIR mandates greater decrease in workers’ comp rate The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has rejected the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) latest rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   No fault takes a break, lawsuits may proliferate Florida motorists may want to use their best defensive driving skills between now and New Year’s.   Canceled Coastal Insurance Policies Argue …

Q&A with Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty By Kathy Bushouse, Sun-Sentinel.com October 21, 2007   Recently Sun-Sentinel staff writer Kathy Bushouse sat down with state insurance commisioner Kevin McCarty, who has put pressure on property insurers over rates. Here is the …

Photo: Michael Democker / Times-Picayune Above:  Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal greets a crowd of supporters while surrounded by family at a victory party in Baton Rouge Saturday night. From CNN/The Associated Press    Louisiana elects first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   State House puts off property tax deal with Senate The property-tax plan that limped out of the state Senate has been panned as mediocre — as doing both too much …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   No real progress on tax plan The Senate passes a proposal, but nobody’s really happy about it. TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate passed a property tax cut package Wednesday that …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:    White House Now Backs TRIA Extension WASHINGTON—The Bush administration late yesterday effectively threw in the towel to its opposition to an extension of legislation providing federal support for insurers after …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   Allstate under state investigation TALLAHASSEE – Florida regulators have included Allstate in the state investigation of whether property insurers conspired to keep home premiums so high.   Allstate Reaps Financial …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   You can drop PIP — for now Some drivers breathed a sigh of relief that Florida’s no-fault auto insurance law will return in January.   Op-Ed:  Damage Control As Floridians, …