Category: Florida Insurance and Political Headlines

In a three-hour meeting, the commission’s Style and Drafting Committee approved its plan to group 24 constitutional proposals into a dozen amendments and send them to the full 37-member commission, which has the power to put measures directly before voters …

The district, known as LID 19, was designed to protect the Riverstone community from inundation from the Brazos River, but roughly a third of the 1,760 homes in the district flooded during Harvey’s assault on the region last August.  Rebecca …

Wright served as chief executive for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and led the reinsurance and risk transfer program that helped financially support the NFIP in the context of 2017’s record breaking storms. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/04/05/485549.htm

Helping consumers protect themselves is the main goal of PCI’s latest survey examining the most “hostile” cities for people whose vehicles are towed, PCI’s Bob Passmore said.  Houston Public Media reports via the PCI SmartBrief. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2018/04/05/277301/survey-houston-is-the-worst-city-for-dealing-with-tow-trucks/

Industry executives in Florida sing the merits, but the Consumer Federation of America says a proposed merger of two of the top four U.S. title insurance giants represents bad news for home buyers from West Palm Beach to Walla Walla, Washington.  …

Florida Specialty Insurance Company has been assigned a Financial Stability Rating (FSR) of A, Exceptional, following the implementation of a new action plan that includes a loss portfolio transfer and reinsurance program with Sirius America Insurance Company.  Matt Sheehan reports …

Dog Bite Claims Nationwide Increased 2.2 Percent, the Insurance Information Institute reports. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dog-bite-claims-nationwide-increased-22-percent-california-florida-and-pennsylvania-lead-nation-in-number-of-claims-300625090.html

Home insurance and comic books are rarely used in the same sentence, the Boca News writes. https://bocanewspaper.com/5-questions-with-stacey-giulianti-25624

Insurance Journal’s Patrick Wright analyzes Florida’s legislative outcomes for the insurance industry. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2018/04/05/485389.htm

Visiting a canal still choked by debris from the storm, the Senator said: “Get the money that we’ve already voted for down here so they can hire people to clean this up.”  The Miami Herald reports via “The Buzz” blog. …