Category: Florida News
Jul 24, 2008
When balcony and patio items are destroyed, who pays? BY JOE KOLLIN South Florida Sun-Sentinel–July 24, 2008 A controversy that has divided South Florida condo boards, unit owners, insurance companies and the state since the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 …
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. …
Jul 24, 2008
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jul 23, 2008
In response to comments by the Florida Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (“JAPC”), the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) has issued a second Notice of Change for proposed Rule 69O-144.007: Credit for Reinsurance From Eligible Reinsurers. An initial Notice of Change …