Category: Florida News

Florida Peninsula Insurance Holds Sarasota Grand Opening

Mar 19, 2018

Florida Peninsula Insurance, one of the largest home insurance firms in Florida, has opened a new underwriting and operations center at 101 Paramount Drive, Suite 250, Sarasota, where it will consolidate a team of 16 underwriters and five customer services agents. …

Blame game escalates in pedestrian bridge collapse that killed six

Mar 19, 2018

What precisely caused the bridge to crumple remains very much an open question, independent experts say.  Mary Ellen Klas, Andres Viglucci and David Ovalle report for the Tampa Bay Times. http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/19/blame-game-escalates-in-pedestrian-bridge-collapse-that-killed-six/

Joe Negron reflects on past, looks to future

Mar 19, 2018

In a brief exit interview last week with Jim Rosica of FloridaPolitics.com, outgoing Senate President Joe Negron said lawmakers over the last two Sessions “made tremendous progress” on goals he set out in his 2015 designation speech, “a blueprint of things I tried …

Why Storm-Prone States Continue to Bypass Tough Building Codes

Mar 19, 2018

A report being released on Monday shows Florida isn’t alone in easing up on building regulations even as the effects of global warming escalate.  Bloomberg’s Christopher Flavelle reports via Insurance Journal. Storm-prone states ease up on building codes despite growing risks …