Southeast News for August 2024
- RLI Insurance Wants 16% Rate Hike in Florida on Umbrella, Filing Shows
- Four Fatal Shootings by Officers Were Justified, Mississippi Attorney General Says
- PCF Brokerage Buys Part of Kentucky Health Solutions in 14th Acquisition This Year
- Alabama Shipbuilder Austal to Pay $24M to Settle Accounting Fraud Probe
- Inadequate Inspections and Oversight Cited in Fatal WV Helicopter Crash
- Relation Insurance Gets Close With Carolina Heritage Agency
- Audit Finds Some Florida Citizens’ Policies Over Limit, Small Use of Clearinghouse
- Lyft is a Motor Carrier and State Farm Can Be Sued Directly, Georgia Court Says
- Two Workers Killed in Tire Explosion at Georgia Airliner Maintenance Facility
- NC High Court Allows Liquidation of Lindberg Insurers; He Owes $524M in Fed Case
- Markets/Coverages: SageSure, Markel Collaborate to Expand Capacity in Coastal States
- The Murdaugh Drama in SC Continues: Store That Sold Beer Now Suing its Insurers
- North Carolina Supreme Court Says Speedway Can Sue Over COVID Closure
- Alabama High School Football Player Dies From Brain Injury in Season Opener
- Union Rep Says WV Governor Still Late on Greenbrier Bills
- Mailing a Letter, in Context With Other Clues, Is Sufficient Cancellation – NC High Court
- FCBI, a Florida Workers’ Comp Fund, Acquires MidSouth Mutual in Tennessee
- OneDigital Expands With Acquisition of Elite Insurance in Tennessee
- People Moves: Hub Names Smith President of Carolinas Ops
- Vanderbilt Plans $520 Million Palm Beach Campus, Tapping into Migration of Wealth
- WV Volunteer Fire Official Pleads to Insurance Fraud After Burning Down His Home
- Cyber Risk: West Virginia OIC Plans to Dispose of Older Workers’ Comp Files
- WV Governor Scrambles to Halt Foreclosure of His Greenbrier Hotel
- Disney Drops Bid to Toss Allergy Suit Because Plaintiff Signed Disney+ Arbitration
- Titan Aerospace Acquires Plimsoll Specialty, Boosting Aviation Insurance Range
- Florida Peninsula MGA Changes Name to Windward Risk Managers
- Launched by Spinnaker, Mainsail Now to be Harbored by Emerald Bay Risk
- Medicare Recovery Actions Can’t be Made by Uninjured Parties, Appeals Court Says
- Racer Scott Bloomquist Remembered After Plane Crash in Tennessee
- Trump Pitches $3 Billion in Condos at Miami-Area Golf Course
- Mississippi Poultry Plant Settles With OSHA After Teen’s 2023 Death
- Family of Carolina Woman Killed by Falling Utility Pole to Get $30M Settlement
- 14-Year-Old Dies After Collapsing During Football Practice in Alabama
- Freeway Drives Six New Franchises in Southeast, California
- Family Settles with Officer Whose K9 Killed an Alabama Man in 2018
- South Florida Man Charged with Unlicensed Public Adjusting in 2022
- Downward Spiral: Florida Insurance Agent Charged with Embezzlement After Lawsuits
- Client Mix-up Leads to Lawsuits, Bar Complaint Against Mississippi Comp Lawyer
- UNC Launches Risk Management Institute with IAP’s Ursano Chair of Advisory Board
- Karen Clark Puts Insured Losses from Debby at $1.4 Billion
- Can a Streaming Service Agreement Require Arbitration in a Food Allergy Death?
- Georgia Investment Manager Charged with Siphoning $6M from GEICO
- Health Systems Increasingly Targets of Cyberattacks But They Can be Ready
- West Virginia Governor Touts 20th-Straight Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease
- First Street Finds Most Debby-Damaged Homes Outside Flood Zone, Without Coverage
- Employer’s Clinic May Not be Protected by Workers’ Comp Remedy, SC Court Says
- Staged Auto Accident Leads to Murder, Conviction in Georgia
- Federal Court Says Lindberg and Firms Must Pay $167M to Defunct Dutch Insurer
- Debby’s Florida Claims Already Near 12,000 as Yaworsky Says Market Is Strengthening
- Hurricane/Tropical Storm Debby Should be Manageable for Insurers, Early Data Show
- Sign of the Times: With Debby, Georgia Neighborhood Floods Twice Since 2016
- SE People Moves: Bisig to Alliant, Former Lawmaker Bell to TDCI Fire Post
- IMA Financial Spreads Into Florida Market with Wallace Welch & Willingham
- Heritage Sees Improved Profits, Plans to Resume Writing in Florida, Other States
- Florida CFO Issues Order on Public Adjusters as Debby Floods Carolinas
- Florida Insurer Can’t Object to Appraiser After the Award Is Decided, 11th Circuit Says
- King Insurance Partners Acquires Lincoln Group in Georgia
- Flooding in Carolinas as Wind Losses Expected to Stay Below Re Retentions
- Hurricane Debby Data Due to Florida OIR Thursday and Friday
- Hurricane Debby Brings Six Deaths, Widespread Flood Losses in Florida, Georgia, SC
- Georgia Woman Charged with Insurance Fraud After Claimed Injuries
- From the Plaintiffs’ View: Unintended Consequences of SB 426 on Georgia Insurance
- Push for Flood Mitigation Draws Concerns Over Impact in Mississippi and Louisiana
- Authorities Investigating After Worker Killed at Tampa Airport by Falling Equipment
- Deputy ID’d in Florida Shooting That Killed One, Injured 2 Other Officers
- Hurricane Slams Florida After Gaining Fury in Warm Waters
- Insurer’s Lack of Repairs Caused Woman’s Death After Ian, Florida Lawsuit Says
- Miami’s ‘Impossible’ Traffic Mess Shows Strains of Booming South
- Tropical System Could Bring Heavy Rains, Flooding to Parts of Florida
- Ryan Specialty Builds with US Assure, a Builder’s Risk Specialist, in Jacksonville
- J&J MGA Acquires Georgia-Based Strickland General Agency
- Tennessee DCI Returns $9.5M to Policyholders in Mediated Claims Disputes
- Hurricane Could Drain Florida Cat Fund’s Reserves. But That May Be OK, Report Says
- Wood Pellet Production Boomed in the South to Meet Demand. It’s Come at a Cost
- Claim on Seized Hemp Shipment Barred, Showing Trickiness of Coverage
- Are Captives the Answer for Uninsured HOAs? Utah Opens Door
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