Category: Insurance Regulatory News
Apr 25, 2018
When Hurricane Irma reached Florida’s Big Pine Key in September, it caused the floor of Terry and Sharon Baron’s cream-colored mobile home to collapse. On Marathon Key, twenty miles north, the winds lifted Diane Gaffield’s mobile home off its concrete …
Apr 25, 2018
Over 24 surplus lines insurers and the first admitted insurer are now offering insurance for various risks faced by the cannabis businesses in California. http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2018/release042-18.cfm
Apr 25, 2018
Months after an insurance broker won a contract for a company to sell policies to Mississippi prison system employees, he was called to see Christopher Epps, who was the state corrections commissioner at the time. Emily Wagster Pettus of the …
Apr 25, 2018
Governor Andrew Cuomo on April 19 directed the Department of Financial Services to urge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle …
Apr 25, 2018
As the vacation rental sector heats up — with Airbnb making even more moves to expand its portfolio of services to include multiple tiers of rentals — there’s going to be more and more of a need for people who manage a …
Apr 25, 2018
By getting hold of a widely used hotel key card, an attacker could create a master key to unlock any room in the building without leaving a trace, Finnish security researchers said in a study published on Wednesday, solving a …
Apr 23, 2018
Drones are also capable of using thermal imaging in order to detect water beneath roofs, Casey Logan reports for the Ft. Myers News-Press. When a hurricane can be good for business https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2018/04/22/hurricanes-and-beyond-drones-take-insurance-industry-storm/511017002/
Apr 23, 2018
The most recent estimates show than more than $27 million remains unpaid more than a year and half later. Tony Jarmusz reports for the Daytona Beach News Journal. http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20180421/cities-to-florida-show-us-money-for-hurricane-costs
Apr 23, 2018
TIKD’s defense has been the Uber argument: Just as the ride-booking company says it isn’t a transportation concern but a technology company, TIKD has said it’s “a technology platform,” not a law firm, on which customers pay a “fixed, pre-determined …
Apr 23, 2018
Despite the dire warnings of environmental advocates, the Legislature last month passed a bill to allow the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to take over issue federal wetlands destruction permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Governor Rick Scott signed …