Category: Florida News

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Thursday, July 24

Jul 24, 2008

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Insurance Rate Increase Divides Florida Lawmakers After 24 years with State Farm, Brenda Harding is being dropped by the company she’s come to trust like an old friend. …

Florida Zero-Collateral Rule Moves Ahead

Jul 23, 2008

National Underwriter–July 22, 2008 BY DANIEL HAYS Foreign reinsurers with triple-A ratings from two rating firms would not have to post collateral under a new Florida Office of Insurance Regulation published Friday. Florida and New York, in advance of action …

Storm-watch tool goes public

Jul 23, 2008

Watch hurricane center’s Web site as tropical waves grow stronger BY JIM WAYMERFlorida Today–July 23, 2008 Before 2004, few would have paid much attention to tropical waves peeling off Africa’s west coast. Thirty hurricanes later, such disturbances elicit a bit …

Senate Panel To Commence Insurance Regulation Hearings

Jul 23, 2008

National Underwriter–July 23, 2008 BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL WASHINGTON —The Senate Banking Committee will hold a long-awaited hearing on insurance regulatory issues next Tuesday, and so far full details of the proceedings remain under wraps. Industry lobbyists said the scope …

Families yield in Port St. Lucie shutter squabble

Jul 23, 2008

Palm Beach Post–July 22, 2008 By TERESA LANEPalm Beach Post Staff Writer PORT ST. LUCIE — Art and Doris Haendel will interrupt their North Carolina vacation next week to drive home and open the accordion shutters on their Kings Isle …

Auditors: FL overbilled Medicare $374 million in 3 years

Jul 23, 2008

Florida Health News–July 23, 2008 By Bill Hirschman Florida hospitals and doctors overbilled Medicare by more than a third of a billion dollars since 2005, according to results from a pilot program to become permanent this fall. The three-year project …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Wednesday, July 23

Jul 23, 2008

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida Zero-Collateral Rule Moves Ahead Foreign reinsurers with triple-A ratings from two rating firms would not have to post collateral under a new Florida Office of Insurance Regulation …