Category: Florida News

  Kevin McCarty, Former Florida Insurance Commissioner Joins the Advisory Board of MBF Healthcare Partners MBF Healthcare Partners announced that Kevin McCarty, Former Florida Insurance Commissioner and Former President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has joined its Advisory …

  Remember the Flood Insurance Scare of 2013? It’s Creeping Back into Tampa Bay and Florida The Tampa Bay Times’ Jeff Harrington recollects that three years ago, Tampa Bay was roiling over massive Flood Insurance Rate Hikes.   Important for …

  Florida Signs Four More Life Claim Settlement Agreements The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Florida Department of Financial Services, and the Florida Office of the Attorney General announced late yesterday that National Life Claim Settlement Agreements have been signed with four Life …

  Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. Subsidiary American Platinum Property and Casualty Insurance Company to Launch Commercial Residential Program Receives Authorization to Add Fire, Commercial Multi-Peril, and Other Liability Lines of Business in Florida.    Wife of Accused Insurance Fraudster Who …

  Public Hearing Set for Proposed Citizens Insurance Rate Hike Rate hike proposals averaging nearly 10 percent next year for South Florida customers of Citizens Property Insurance will be scrutinized in Public Hearings in Tallahassee on August 18.   Ron …

  September and October Approved Take-Outs From Citizens Property Insurance Corporation The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved participants in the September and October Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Take-Out Periods, Capital Soup reports.   Feds Move to Seize Home …

  Florida’s Most Stolen Vehicle? Guess What Leads the New List If you said the Altima, you’re right that it is the 2015 Model most commonly stolen in Florida and the country as a whole, the Palm Beach Post’s Charles …

  In his Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services (“Division”) newsletter published today, July 29, 2016, Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Jeff Atwater reminded about the recent transition involving law enforcement units housed within the Florida Department …

  Battling Back Against the Use of AOBs in Water-Related Claims Assignments of Benefits are the fastest-moving vehicles for fraudulent activity in Homeowners’ Insurance Claims, Colodny Fass’ Maria Elena Abate writes via Claims Management Magazine.    Sea Level Rise Threatens …

  Florida’s Largest PACE Program, YgreneWorks, Expands to Offer Over 5M Property Owners Access to Affordable Energy Efficiency and Climate Resiliency Improvements Applications for financing double as Obama Administration endorses PACE and home and business owners prepare for hurricane and …