Category: Florida Department of Financial Services

Our firm has been advised by the Florida Department of Financial Services (“Department”) that a number of insurers are not in compliance with Rules 69D-2.001-005 with regard to their obligation to file Special Investigative Unit (“SIU”) description filings or anti-fraud …

The following information was just released by Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink’s Press Office: MIAMI-Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced arrests today of individuals accused of various insurance fraud schemes including auto body damage, Personal Injury Protection (PIP), and …

Above:  Newly-Named Florida Insurance Fraud Director Vicki Cutcliffe   Florida Chief  Financial Officer Alex Sink today issued the announcement below regarding the appointment of 30-year law enforcement veteran Vicki Cutcliffe as the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud (“DIF”) Director. Should …

In response to complaints earlier this year regarding recordkeeping practices established during previous administrations by the Department of Financial Services, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced plans to create an electronic database that will allow consumers or their attorneys …

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, has issued two consumer alerts as detailed below.   Should you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact this office.   CFO Sink Advises Floridians That Tennessee Has Placed NFOA Into …

The Florida Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), in conjunction with Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, issued the following press release providing for $2.6 million in reimbursements to multiple Florida cities and counties from national insurance broker Willis Group Holdings.  The reimbursement …

The Florida Department of Financial Services (“DFS”), on behalf of the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) has issued a Notice of Emergency Rule, number 69OER07-3, relating to transition provisions for the use of the Uniform Mitigation and Verification Inspection …

  Chief Financial Officer State of Florida Alex Sink  June 11, 2007   The Honorable Charlie Crist Governor Plaza Level, The Capitol Tallahassee, Florida  32399-0001   Dear Governor Crist: I am writing to request that you place a good cause …

The Florida Department of Financial Services issued the following news regarding the license revokation and permanent banning of an insurance agent who used his insurance license to exploit elderly Jewish Floridians. Should you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate …

The following story was published in National Underwriter Property & Casualty News on Friday, May 11. Should you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to call this office.     Fla. CFO Slams Changes To Citizens Property …