Category: Florida News
Aug 3, 2009
Changes continue on the Utek Corp. board of directors, but the latest business executive to join has a strong local connection. Mark S. Berset, the chief executive officer of Comegys Insurance, has joined the board of the Ybor City intellectual …
Aug 3, 2009
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Insurance Commissioner faces tough decisions State Farm plans its strategy to exit Florida Heading into the most active months of the hurricane season, upcoming regulatory decisions will radically …
Aug 3, 2009
Heading into the most active months of the hurricane season, upcoming regulatory decisions will radically change Florida’s property-insurance market and determine the future for millions of consumers. Pending before Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty are negotiations and decisions about the state’s …
Aug 3, 2009
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty was the recent featured guest on Florida Face-to-Face, a statewide broadcast weekly talk show on the Florida Channel in which government officials are interviewed. This week’s discussion with Commissioner McCarty included an update on successful 2009 insurance-related legislation, …
Aug 3, 2009
But ‘surplus lines carriers’ aren’t regulated, backed by Texas By PURVA PATELHOUSTON CHRONICLE Aug. 1, 2009, 4:05PM The state’s largest home insurance companies have hiked rates or announced increases this summer, hitting coastal areas such as Harris County the hardest. …
Aug 3, 2009
An alternative to unlimited liability for taxpayers by Eli Lehrer 08/10/2009, Volume 014, Issue 44 After hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11, taxpayers ended up spending a lot of money to aid the injured, rebuild public infrastructure, improve …
Aug 3, 2009
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Litigation Release No. 21068A / June 4, 2009 Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 3023 / June 4, 2009 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Angelo Mozilo, David Sambol, and Eric Sieracki, (C.D. Cal.), Civil Action …
Jul 31, 2009
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Feds: Jackson Memorial patients’ records were sold in scheme A Miami man was charged Thursday with buying confidential patient records from a Jackson Memorial Hospital employee over the …
Jul 31, 2009
The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology (“Commission”) is scheduled to meet from 9:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. on the following days: Tuesday, August 11 Wednesday, August 12 Thursday, August 13 Location: Hermitage Centre Conference Room, Hermitage Centre, 1801 …
Jul 31, 2009
The Department of Transportation said Thursday that it will not allow private contractors to receive automatic pay hikes this budget year — a savings of at least $10 million — after a state senator called attention to the practice in …