Florida Office of Insurance Regulation News

NCCI Requests Review of Disapproved Florida Rate Filing

The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has submitted a request to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) to consider supplemental information in regards to its recent workers compensation rate filing that Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said would …

Florida Approves First Citizens Take-Out Offers for 2016

​The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 127,266 personal residential policies and 3,268 commercial residential/non-residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. The announcement represents the first take-out for 2016 and the following five …

McCarty Orders NCCI to Further Lower Florida’s Workers’ Comp Rates

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty has ordered the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to lower workers’ compensation rates for Florida employers by 5.1 percent. The Order signed Nov. 3 is a disapproval of the proposed 1.9 percent decrease …

Florida Drops Order for The Doctors Co. to Lower Rates

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has dropped its Order for The Doctors Co. (TDC) to lower its filed rates by 15 percent. The rates proposed by the medical malpractice insurer back in Dec. 2014 will remain the same …

Florida Regulators ‘Encouraged’ by Insurers’ Stress Test Results

Florida property insurers are well-capitalized and able to handle a 1-in-100 year storm event if and when it occurs in the state, according to the Florida Office of Insurance’s 2015 Data Call and subsequent stress test report. The annual Reinsurance …

Florida Issues Citizens’ 2016 Commercial Lines Rate Order

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued an Order establishing the 2016 commercial lines rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens). The overall estimated statewide average rate changes are shown in the chart below. The effective date for both …

Florida Approves Removal of Up to 184,500 Policies from Citizens

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved the removal of up to 181,909 personal residential policies and 2,591 commercial residential/non-residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) by the following six companies: Anchor Property & Casualty Insurance Co. – …

Florida Approves Citizens’ 2016 Rates With Minor Adjustments

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a slate of 2016 property insurance rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. In an order signed September 8 by Florida Commissioner Kevin McCarty, FLOIR set the rates for Citizens multi-peril and coastal …

NCCI Proposes Decrease to Florida Workers’ Comp Rates

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation said today that it has received the 2016 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide average premium decrease of 2.2 percent. This includes a …

Florida to Conduct Public Hearing on Citizens’ Proposed Rate Changes

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that it will conduct a public hearing later this month to discuss Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s proposed 2016 rate changes for its business in the multi-peril and wind only Coastal Account (CA), Commercial …