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Florida Class Action Targets Litigation Funding Firm Over Data Breach
Apr 25 2025 // Third-party litigation financing have become big business across the country, much to the chagrin of businesses and insurance companies that have faced multi-million lawsuit verdicts. But now one Florida-based litigation...
Everglades Restoration Aims to Protect Florida Keys, Water, State Economy
Apr 23 2025 // ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) — The Everglades is more than just swamps, fan boats and alligators — and restoration efforts impact more than the land between Florida’s east and west coasts. Florida Bay, a body of water...
South Florida Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty to Fraud in $133M ACA Enrollment Scheme
Apr 22 2025 // A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. Dafud Iza, 54,...
Florida Bill Advances, Would End Board of Engineers, Other Professional Agencies
Apr 21 2025 // Elon Musk’s age of government efficiency has spread to Florida, with legislation advanced last week that would abolish at least 22 state boards that oversee licensing and disciplinary reviews for engineers,...
Dueling Regulators: Florida OIR Slams DFS in Effort to Combine Agency Insurance Oversight. DFS Pushed Back.
Apr 21 2025 // In a March memo to lawmakers, Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation sharply criticized the state’s rather unique two-agency insurance regulatory structure, arguing that the Department of Financial Services...
Major Florida Grower to Build New Home Development After Ending Citrus Operations
Apr 18 2025 // FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — One of Florida’s biggest citrus growers plans to build a 3,000-acre (1,200 hectare) community in southwest Florida, just months after announcing it was abandoning its citrus-growing...
Florida’s Anchor Insurance is Reborn as Patriot Select With $29M in Capital
Apr 17 2025 // It was once known as Anchor Property & Casualty Insurance Co., based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and launched in 2014. Then it was known as another Florida carrier that had slipped into financial troubles and was...
King Risk Acquires Watts Dawson Agency in Florida
Apr 16 2025 // King Risk Partners, based in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Watts, Dawson & Associates, an independent agency with offices in Temple Terrace and Valrico, Florida. The move expands King Risk’s presence in...
Growing Fast, Going Public: Florida’s American Integrity Insurance Files for IPO
Apr 15 2025 // American Integrity Insurance, one of the largest property insurance carriers in Florida with more than 350,000 policies in force, is going to Wall Street with an initial public offering. The Tampa-based parent company,...
People: Florida-Based Security First Elevates Two to Key Roles
Apr 15 2025 // Security First Insurance, one of the larger carriers in Florida, with 136,500 policies in force, has elevated two people to key positions. Scot Moore was named chief financial officer, the insurer said in an announcement...
Walmart Employee Kills Co-Worker in Georgia, Driver in Florida Injures Store Worker
Apr 14 2025 // COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — A Walmart employee shot and killed a co-worker inside a Georgia store and critically wounded another worker outside early Friday while the business was closed to the public, authorities said. After...
Florida Art Dealer Charged in Fake Warhol Artwork Scheme
Apr 14 2025 // MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida art dealer and another man face charges involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol artworks, authorities said. Leslie Roberts, 62, of Miami, and Carlos Miguel Rodriguez Melendez, 37, of Sunny...
Rebates on HO Premiums? It’s a Thing, Orion180 Says in Launching Florida Coverage
Apr 10 2025 // Orion180, a property insurance and surplus lines carrier founded in Melbourne, Florida, in 2016, has now started writing policies in the state where it is headquartered. And it is doing so with what appears to be an...
The 12th New Property Insurer, Apex Star Reciprocal, Enters Florida Market
Apr 8 2025 // Florida’s insurance commissioner on Monday announced another entry into the warming waters of the Florida property-casualty market – the 12th new insurer in the last two years. Nichols (Linkedin) Apex Star...
Florida OIR Faults DFS in Move to Combine Regulatory Functions. DFS Pushes Back
Apr 7 2025 // In a March memo to lawmakers, Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation sharply criticized the state’s rather unique two-agency insurance regulatory structure, arguing that the Department of Financial Services...
Insureds Have Post-Loss Duties Too, Florida Appeals Court Says in HCI Win
Apr 7 2025 // Florida insurers, often on the receiving end of insureds’ complaints in the courts and in the news media, may take heart from a recent ruling by a Florida appeals court, which draws a bold line under insureds’...
Consultant Sheds Some Light on MGA Fee Report at Florida Legislative Hearing
Apr 4 2025 // A Florida House of Representatives panel went straight to the source of a consultant’s report that has caused widespread concern among lawmakers about insurance company profit-shifting. But the hour-long web...
Florida’s Universal P&C Overstated Claims to Cat Fund, Must Pay $4M Fine, AG Says
Apr 2 2025 // The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund will not have to pay some $30 million to Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co., after the carrier settled a civil suit that alleged the insurer had backdated claims to boost...
Florida Senate Panel Wants More Rate Comparison, Cost, Profit Info on OIR Website
Mar 26 2025 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation provides a rate comparison tool on its website for homeowners’ and auto insurance, allowing consumers to view estimated premiums for limited types of properties and...
McCarty Critical of Consultant’s Report on MGAs, as Average Premiums Drop in Florida
Mar 25 2025 // Amid an uproar over reports that Florida property insurance companies had shifted profits to affiliated firms while rates rose and carriers slid into insolvency a half-decade ago, former Florida Insurance Commissioner...
