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Now Available: Insurance Journal’s Focus on Florida Special Edition
Jun 11 2021 // Check out Insurance Journal’s recent special edition on Florida including a special report on new legislation to help Floridians who are battling the state’s property insurance crisis. This legislation aims to...
Florida Governor to Sign Property Insurance Measure But Says State Needs to Do More
Jun 10 2021 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he will sign recently-passed legislation addressing property insurance costs and roofing contractor practices while adding that he believes that the state needs to do more to curb excess...
Version 21.0 of RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models Certified by Florida Hurricane Commission on Loss Projection Methodology
Jun 10 2021 // RMS remains first and only risk modeling company to offer hurricane models certified by the FCHPLM on both on-premises software and a cloud platform simultaneously Newark, Calif. – June 10, 2021 – Today, RMS, the...
Florida Insurance Agent Charged with Diverting $4M in Premiums
Jun 9 2021 // A Pensacola, Florida insurance agent has bee charged with selling fraudulent insurance policies to his clients in exchange for approximately $4 million in insurance premium payments. Jason R. Coody, acting U.S. Attorney...
PEAK6 Acquires Florida’s Team Focus, Parent to MacNeil Group, Capacity Insurance
Jun 8 2021 // Investment firm PEAK6 announced that its insurance operations subsidiary, PEAK6 InsurTech, will acquire Team Focus Insurance Group, a Sunrise, Fla.-based property/casualty insurance firm that includes MacNeill Group, a...
Florida Top Court Says Insurer Can Pursue Malpractice Claim Against Defense Law Firm
Jun 8 2021 // Attorneys who are hired by insurance carriers to defend policyholders from lawsuits have a duty to represent the insured, but the insurer is paying their fees. Obviously, the insurer has a financial interest in the outcome...
Florida Surgeon’s Estate Settles with Indiana City over Plane Crash Death
Jun 7 2021 // The estate of a Florida plastic surgeon who died in 2019 when his small plane crashed in a central Indiana farm field shortly after takeoff has settled its lawsuit with the city of Kokomo, Indiana. The estate of Daniel...
Florida’s Altmaier Sees His State’s Private Flood Insurance Market Helping Others
Jun 7 2021 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Florida has 90,000 private flood insurance policies in force now– a 300% increase since passing legislation to encourage private insurers to offer the coverage in 2014, according to...
Security First to Offer New Homeowners Coverage in Florida
Jun 4 2021 // Security First Insurance, one of the largest private homeowners insurers, has launched its Homeowner’s Premier HO5 policy. Floridians must have no claims or one claim caused by a weather event and with...
Florida, Virginia Among Top Coastal States in Insurance Safety Rating of Building Codes
Jun 4 2021 // Florida has again taken the top spot for strongest building code with Virginia right behind in second place. That’s according to the 2021 edition of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)...
Florida Changes Driving Rule on Using Hazard Lights
Jun 4 2021 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —For years, Florida has been reminding motorists not to use flashing hazard lights while driving. Well starting soon, feel free to flash away _ but only on the highway. And only in heavy rain or...
Too Little, Too Late? Breaking Down Florida’s Latest Property Insurance Reforms
Jun 1 2021 // A bill passed by the Florida Legislature to address the state’s property insurance crisis has created optimism among some stakeholders, while others say it will not reduce rates over the next 18 to 24 months or stop...
Internet Groups’ Lawsuit Claims Florida Social Media Law Is Unconstitutional
May 28 2021 // Two tech trade groups filed a lawsuit against Florida on Thursday over a new law that would fine social media companies that ban political candidates, which they said violated free speech rights. The lawsuit, which said...
4 Killed in Florida Firefighting Helicopter Crash
May 27 2021 // A firefighting helicopter with four people on board crashed near an airport in central Florida, killing at least one person, officials said. The helicopter crashed into a marsh near Leesburg International Airport during a...
AM Best: Florida’s Property Insurance Market Hit 5-Year Financial Low in 2020
May 27 2021 // AM Best’s composite of Florida property insurance companies hit five-year performance and surplus lows in 2020, and given persisting and significant market hurdles, companies will find sustaining current surplus...
Florida High Court Adopts Federal Summary Judgment Standard with Amendment
May 25 2021 // The Florida Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion last month further amending the federal summary judgment standard it officially adopted last year. The move came as part of the court’s Dec. 31, 2020 opinion In...
Florida Construction Co. Owner Arrested for Evading Payment of Workers’ Comp Premium
May 21 2021 // The owner of a Florida construction business has been arrested for allegedly concealing payroll information to avoid paying more than $718,000 in workers’ compensation premiums, according to a statement from the...
The Potential Liabilities for Cities, Insurers from Florida’s New ‘Anti-Riot’ Law
May 18 2021 // The right to protest in America is a fundamental right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects both the “freedom of speech” and the “right of the people...
Judge Rules Florida Deputies Fired Over Parkland Massacre Should Get Jobs Back
May 17 2021 // A Florida judge ruled Thursday that two deputies who were fired for inaction during a high school mass shooting in 2018 should be reinstated with back pay. Broward Circuit Judge Keathan Frink concluded that arbitrators...
Tortoise Movers Sue Florida Commission for $500K for Moving Too Fast to Revoke License
May 14 2021 // Two men who relocate gopher tortoises are suing Florida’s wildlife commission, saying they should be awarded at least $500,000 in damages because the agency violated due process by prematurely revoking their...
