Category: Florida Insurance and Political Headlines

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   News Release:  CFO Alex Sink Proposes Contracting Changes to Citizens Property Insurance for More Accountability Florida CFO Alex Sink today sent a letter to Scott Wallace, President and Executive …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Judges hear Citizens Property Insurance immunity case An appeals court says a decision on whether state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is immune from lawsuits alleging bad-faith practices is a …

  Weekly insurance related media recaps from the Insurance Information Institute (“III”) are outlined below for the month of September 2010 (click on the hyperlinks to access the referenced information): Week of September 26-October 1 South Florida Sun Sentinel columnist …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Letters:  Not all manufactured homes are storm risks After reading the article “Citizens gets 10.3 percent rate hike,” I couldn’t help but wonder why mobile home insurance rates …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida Insurance Commissioner meets Bermuda reinsurers Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty was reportedly in Bermuda last week to meet leading reinsurance industry figures.   Florida’s Homeowners Market Still Roiled …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Blog:  Are Florida home insurers spending too much on overhead? The state’s insurance regulators and consumer advocates grilled Sunshine State Insurance Thursday about its request to raise rates …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Blog:  Sunshine State Insurance proposes 25 percent rate hike Regulators will question Sunshine State Insurance Co. today about its request to raise rates by an average 25 percent …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   News Release:  Florida Insurance Commissioner Addresses Reinsurance Professionals in Bermuda Yesterday the Florida Insurance Commissioner was in Bermuda to address the Board of Directors for two prominent reinsurance …

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Hannover Re sees gains from Florida collateral cut Florida regulators slashed collateral requirements for a Hannover Re unit as they dismantle barriers to offshore reinsurance in the hurricane-prone state, …

  From today’s Jacksonville Times-Union:  Fifty years ago this week, Vice President Richard Nixon appointed then-American Heritage Life Insurance President Claude Kirk Jr. (above) to cull support for the Republican presidential ticket from among Democrats and Independents.  Mr. Kirk was …