Category: Florida News

  Florida Theme Parks Review Safety Policies After Fatal Alligator Attack After a gator killed a 2-year-old Nebraska boy at a Walt Disney World Resort, attention soon turned to tourists. In a state with an estimated 1 million alligators, how …

  Public Hearing Requested over Heritage’s 14.9-Percent Insurance Rate Increase Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate has called for a Public Hearing over Heritage Property & Casualty’s requested statewide average 14.9-percent rate increase for former policyholders of State-Run Citizens Insurance, the Sun-Sentinel’s Ron …

  Deadline Looms for Citizens’ Appointment Agreements Addressing Data Security Appointed agents and agencies of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance have just two weeks left to sign new appointment agreements or have their contract with the state-run insurer terminated, Insurance Journal’s …

  Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s (“Citizens”) Claims Committee meets via teleconference tomorrow, June 16, 2016, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. (ET) to review and approve a proposed contract for post-catastrophe imagery as part of its overall agenda.  The …

  Troubled Waters Panel Wades into Divisive Insurance Fight The CEO of one of Florida’s 10 biggest property insurers told a forum in Boca Raton Tuesday that inflated water-damage claims are “morally wrong” and hurt all consumers by raising rates, …

  Insurance Controversy Targeted In Florida Forum It’s the topic off the season in the insurance world.  It pits insurance companies against contractors, attorneys and other third parties they blame for inflating non-storm claims such as plumbing leaks.  Caught in …

  THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA published the following interview with outgoing Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty today, June 10, 2016: NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA HAS: FIVE QUESTIONS FOR KEVIN MCCARTYBy JIM TURNERTHE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, …

  Florida Supreme Court Rejects Another Part of Workers’ Compensation System For the second time in less than two months, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that part of the state’s workers’ compensation insurance system is unconstitutional.  THE NEWS …

  Quashing the First District Court of Appeal ruling in the case of Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg Risk Management, the Florida Supreme Court has determined that certain portions of Florida’s workers’ compensation statute are unconstitutional. To view the decision …

  Florida Flags Insurer’s Proposed Assignment of Benefits Restrictions One of South Florida’s largest property insurance companies has been rebuffed by state insurance regulators for seeking Assignment of Benefits restrictions that were disapproved two years ago.  The Sun Sentinel’s Ron …