Fla. Insurance Startups Have A Cat Fund Worry

Feb 10, 2009

National Underwriter–February 10, 2009 BY DANIEL HAYSNU Online News Service The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a key reinsurance provider, has a shortfall of $18.5 billion, which could pose problems for some of the state’s recent insurance startups, state officials indicated. …

Florida looks for ways to boost hurricane fund

Feb 10, 2009

Sarasota Herald-Tribune–February 10, 2009 By LLOYD DUNKELBERGER H-T CAPITAL BUREAU TALLAHASSEE – With State Farm pulling out of the Florida property insurance market, the Senate budget chairman Monday expressed concern about many of those consumers moving into new insurance companies …

Small insurance companies vie for State Farm customers

Feb 10, 2009

Treasure Coast Palm–February 9, 2009 By Julie Patel, Sun-Sentinel Many of Florida’s 1.2 million State Farm policyholders aren’t waiting to find new property insurance after the surprise announcement last month that State Farm is pulling out of Florida. And the …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Tuesday, February 10

Feb 10, 2009

  Above:  An editorial cartoon on insurance appeared in today’s Gainesville Sun   To view a complete story, click on a headline below: State insurance chief shops plan to bolster hurricane catastrophe fund Office of Insurance Regulation Commissioner Kevin McCarty …

OIR Issues Final Order On NCCI Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase

Feb 10, 2009

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) issued a Final Order today, February 10, 2009, approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (“NCCI”) amended rate filing requesting a 6.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates to be effective April …

Cabinet Meeting

Feb 10, 2009

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Security First offer to all State Farm customers back on

Feb 9, 2009

St. Petersburg Times–February 7, 2009 By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Security First Insurance’s pledge to pick up discarded State Farm customers anywhere in the state – at least the first 50,000 who contact the company – is back on …