HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Before Hurricane Idalia smashed into a small fishing village in northwestern Florida, Charles Long, 68, was fixing up a two-bedroom house for him and his wife. After the August storm, he found remnants of it …
Two recent reports reflect trends in Florida’s property insurance market, including the continued growth of surplus lines’ business and an uptick last year in litigation costs for carriers. The Florida Surplus Lines Service Office reported this week that the admitted …
FEMA issued a new rule that will increase the nation’s resilience to future flood disasters. The rule is amongst the first adopted by a federal agency that will require federally funded projects to be sited and designed with future climate …
Florida Peninsula Holdings and Windward Holdings, which together own and manage Florida Peninsula Insurance Co., Edison Insurance and Ovation Home Insurance Exchange, has named is co-founder vice chairman of the board. Gary Cantor, who, along with Paul Adkins, CEO of …
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has reaapointed Neera Bahl to another term on the state Board of Workers’ Compensation. The three-member board, which includes Director Benjamin Vinson and Chairman Frank McKay, acts as the appeals panel, hearing appeals from administrative law …
South Carolina lawmakers next year may be asked to revamp a workers’ compensation employment test that judges have relied on for more than 50 years, if the state Supreme Court has its way. The court last week said that a …
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine to serve three-and-a-half years in prison after Oxendine pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, plus three years supervised release after his sentence …
A plan by a politically conservative group to dismantle the National Flood Insurance Program, if Donald Trump is elected president, has been met with approval from a private flood insurer but sharp skepticism from economists and insurance agents who say …
Florida Tax Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog in operation for 45 years, is urging state lawmakers to expand wind-mitigation tax breaks for homeowners struggling with higher insurance premiums. The group this week posted an analysis of the Florida property insurance …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge approved a $1 million settlement Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that accused West Virginia state police troopers of using excessive force on a Maryland man who was walking along a highway last year. …
