Category: Florida News

Tampa P & C insurance leader named to Utek board

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 …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Monday, August 3

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 …

Insurance Commissioner faces tough decisions

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 …

Florida Insurance Commissioner Reviews State’s Insurance Market On Talk Show

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, …

Some homeowners turn to alternative insurers

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. …

Insurance Against Terrorism

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 …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Friday, July 31

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 …

Road contractors lose automatic pay raises

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 …