Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida City’s Insurance to Pay $2 million in Settlement in Fatal Police Shooting
Feb 27 2023 // A South Florida city has reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a Black motorist who was fatally shot by a police officer after his vehicle broke down on an interstate off-ramp more than seven years ago. The...
Florida TV News Crews Reeling After Reporter, 2 Others Gunned Down in Orlando
Feb 24 2023 // A Florida television station identified Thursday a 24-year-old reporter who was fatally shot while covering a shooting death in an Orlando area neighborhood, as well as its photojournalist who was critically injured in the...
Florida’s Notice-of-Intent Trips Up Medicare Recovery Firm in Suits Versus Insurers
Feb 24 2023 // A law firm that has made a multibillion-dollar business out of suing auto and liability insurers for Medicare reimbursement payments may have met its match in Florida’s notice-of-intent-to-sue requirements. A panel...
SterlingRisk Acquires Worldwide Insurance in Florida
Feb 23 2023 // New York-based SterlingRisk, a privately held insurance broker, has acquired Worldwide Insurance Group, headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida. Ruidiaz Worldwide’s founder and president, Anthony Ruidiaz, will become...
Florida Art Dealer Pleads Guilty in Warhol Forgery Scheme
Feb 23 2023 // A South Florida art dealer pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday in connection with a scheme involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings. Daniel Elie Bouaziz, 69, pleaded to a single count of money laundering in...
Florida Home Fire and Welding Site Explosion Kill Five People
Feb 22 2023 // Two people were killed and three others injured Tuesday when at least two tractor-trailers exploded at a truck and welding business in Miami. The Miami Herald and local TV news outlets reported that the explosion and fire...
Florida Workers’ Comp Revises Wording on Payment to Surgical Centers
Feb 22 2023 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has made a tweak to its proposed reimbursement manual for ambulatory surgical centers. The change, posted after a Jan. 12 hearing on the issue, would clarify the wording...
Neighbors Recoil at Florida Pool Shaped Like Gun
Feb 21 2023 // The swimming pool in the backyard of Louis Minardi’s home may be distinctive to Florida: The custom-built pool is shaped like a six-shooter revolver, in a state made famous – sometimes infamous – by guns,...
Orderly Runoff Didn’t Work; Florida’s United P&C Now Insolvent, Headed for Liquidation
Feb 20 2023 // Just days after some 90,000 policies from troubled United Property & Casualty Insurance Co. were transferred to Slide Insurance as part of a wind-down of the carrier, it was announced that UPC is officially broke and...
Trial Lawyers Push Back Against Florida Plan for More Insurance Tort Reform
Feb 15 2023 // It’s now clear what the regular session of the Florida Legislature will focus on when lawmakers convene March 7: More litigation measures that would bring property insurance-type reforms to automobile, liability and...
Florida Citrus, Hit by Storms and Fungus, Now Faces a Butterfly from the Caribbean
Feb 13 2023 // The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species that hails from Asia and which has damaged citrus trees throughout the Caribbean for nearly 20 years — has now reached Florida. The Papilio demoleus Linnaeus...
Governor Names Yaworsky New Florida Insurance Commissioner
Feb 13 2023 // Florida’s governor has named the insurance department’s former chief of staff as new insurance commissioner, filling a position that has been vacant since the former commissioner resigned in late...
Hilb Buys Nowell in Mississippi, Alkeme Acquires PEO Exchange in Florida
Feb 10 2023 // Hilb Group Buys Nowell Agency in Mississippi The Hilb Group has expanded into Mississippi with the acquisition of The Nowell Agency, the property insurance brokerage and benefits firm announced. The Nowell Agency has...
Public Adjusters Can’t Also Be Appraisers on the Claim, Florida Supreme Court Finds
Feb 10 2023 // A public adjuster cannot act as an appraiser for a homeowner they represent when the insurance policy specifies that the appraiser must be “disinterested,” the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The high...
Insurers’ Files, Adjuster Notes Not Always Discoverable, Says Florida Appeals Court
Feb 10 2023 // Insurance companies in Florida may have to disclose their financial relationships with expert witnesses, but they don’t have to turn over their entire claims files and field adjusters’ notes, at least in some...
74-year-old Florida Lyft Driver Went Missing, Then Was Found Dead; One Arrested
Feb 9 2023 // A South Florida Lyft driver who went missing more than a week ago has died, his daughter confirmed Tuesday. Lindsay DiBetta posted on Facebook that the family would be announcing information on services for her father,...
‘Citizens’ Web Site Not Affiliated with Florida Insurer, Takes Users to Auto Quote Site
Feb 8 2023 // Investigators with Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are looking into a website that looks a lot like Florida’s largest property insurance carrier but may actually be fraudulent. “These sites typically ask for...
Hurricane Irma Deaths at Florida Nursing Home: Accident or Manslaughter?
Feb 8 2023 // A Florida nursing home administrator charged with causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017 went on trial Monday, with a prosecutor calling him a “captain who abandoned ship”...
Rogner, Helwig Named to Workers’ Comp Charity Board in Florida
Feb 8 2023 // Kids’ Chance, a charity organization established by the the workers’ compensation industry, has named new board members for its Florida operation. The all-volunteer Kids’ Chance of Florida, like sister...
Ransomware Outbreak Hits US and European Universities, Florida Supreme Court
Feb 7 2023 // A global ransomware outbreak has scrambled servers belonging to Florida’s Supreme Court and several universities in the United States and Central Europe, according to a Reuters analysis of ransom notes posted online...
