Category: Florida News

As part of its ongoing review and analysis of Florida’s property and casualty insurance market, Demotech, Inc. released its Financial Stability Ratings for Florida property insurance companies as of August 25, 2009. Insurers reporting financial stability enhanced by net catastrophe …

BY SHANNON COLAVECCHIO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved a $1.5 million settlement with the federal government, the state’s negotiated penalty for illegally selling drivers’ personal information to companies and individuals. In January, …

Above:  Jennifer J.H. Pierce of Colodny Fass (center, left) joins School Board Member Robin Bartleman (center, right), Cathie Starkey from American Business Women’s Association and South Broward Hospital District (left) at the graduation of the 2009 Visions of Images PreCision class. Visions of …

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group espousing free enterprise and limited government, issued the following editorial on August 25, 2009:   CEI Suggests Questions for Florida Insurance Commissioner “A lot of serious unanswered questions”  Tallahassee, Florida, …

CABINET APPROVES FLORIDA FOREVER LIST, CALLS FOR MORE OVERSIGHT By MICHAEL PELTIER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 25, 2009… Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet approved the state’s environmental land buying priority list on Tuesday but …

State Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff was featured on the cover of the August 25, 2009 edition of EAST Magazine, a publication devoted to Fort Lauderdale and its lifestyle. To view the cover and entire article, go to:  http://www.east-mag.com/aug25_09.html The article about …

The Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association (“FWCIGA”) Board of Directors will meet on Wednesday, August 26, at 8:30 a.m. in the Breakers Hotel, One South County Road, Palm Beach.

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   News Service of Florida:  Plakon No Longer on Insurance Panel Rep. Scott Plakon just last week urged House Insurance, Business, & Financial Affairs Chairman Pat Patterson to bring …

An August 25, 2009 Hearing scheduled by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation regarding proposed Rule 69O-156.020, entitled “Prohibition Against Use of Genetic Information and Requests for Genetic Testing” was not held because it was not requested by any member …

 BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com Last year, Pembroke Pines turned on its first red-light camera. Across South Florida, other cities followed. But now critics — and lawsuits — are questioning whether the cameras pass legal muster. Several Florida cities, including Aventura …