Category: Florida News

  Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum Responds to Rick Scott’s Criticism About Hurricane Recovery Power Outages in the City have led to Open Complaints from Governor Rick Scott about the speed of repairs and restoration following the storm.  WXTL-TV reports. Five …

  Governor Scott Requests a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Florida Following Hurricane Hermine Governor Rick Scott requested that President Obama make a Major Disaster Declaration for Florida due to severe storms and flooding that impacted communities and businesses throughout …

  Mosaic to Have 3rd Party Test Private Wells Near Mulberry Plant Where Sinkhole Opened, Dumping Contaminated Water Mosaic Co. has retained a third-party company to test private wells near the plant where a sinkhole recently opened up, dumping about …

  Florida Regulators Approve Rate Increase for Citizens Policyholders The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved a 6.4 percent overall Rate Increase for 2017 for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Homeowners’ Multiperil Policyholders across the State.  According to Citizens, the increase is …

  Negron Upends Senate Appropriations Committee Staff in Effort to Cushion Any “Loyalty Gaps” Fresh off a bitter two-year fight to become Senate President, Senator Joe Negron, R-Stuart, is shaking up the Senate’s Professional Staff in a way the Legislature hasn’t seen since …

  Heritage Proposes 15 Percent Rate Increase in Most of South Florida Heritage, the third-largest Insurer in the Tri-County Region with 96,139 Personal Residential Policies at the end of March, this month filed for approval to increase rates an average …

  The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation advised today, September 14, 2016, that it has released an actuarial study written by Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc. (“Pinnacle”) that estimates the effect of cost savings realized by insurance companies writing Personal Injury …

  Post-Hurricane Recovery Florida Best Practices Task Force Created Citizens for Responsible Spending Chairman Barney Bishop III today Tuesday the creation of the Post-Hurricane Recovery Best Practices Task Force, SunshineStateNews.com Publisher Nancy Smith reports.   Florida’s Olympus Insurance Promotes Burton …

  Florida’s First Hurricane in 11 Years “Could Have Been a Lot Worse” for Insurers While Preliminary Damage Estimates and Claims are still trickling in from Hurricane Hermine, Florida’s first named Hurricane since 2005, the consensus from the Insurance Industry …

  Florida Reports Success in Invasive Snail Eradication Effort The snails eat over 500 kinds of plants as well as plaster and stucco.  They also can carry parasites that can cause meningitis in humans.  The Associated Press reports via the …