The good news is the number of deaths from car crashes dropped 15 percent in Florida, Justine Griffin reports for the Tampa Bay Times....
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Uber has been hit with dozens of lawsuits in recent years claiming that its drivers are employees and are entitled to minimum wage, overtime, and other legal protections not afforded to contractors. Daniel Wiessner reports...
The New York Department of Financial Services has advised its regulated insurers to encourage policyholders that investing in commercial global positioning system equipment could reduce motor vehicle collisions and result in...
Some insurers and others, meanwhile, are beginning to look toward 2020 when the U.S federal terrorism backstop comes up for renewal, the report said, which was entitled “Insurers Adjust to Changing Terrorism Risk...
Pointing to “human error,” the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on Thursday increased its latest property-loss estimate from Hurricane Irma by more than $1.2 billion. THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA reports via the...
Delivery Trouble: Insurance check for Irma damage goes missing at Opa-locka USPS center
April 13, 2018
Her insurance company told her the check was in the mail, but the post office says they don’t have it. And now one South Florida homeowner says the mix-up is keeping her from repairing her home damaged by Irma. So who’s...
Statewide, according to Florida’s Department of Financial Services, in 2012, auto glass companies filed 1,389 lawsuits against insurers. Just four years later, the number of lawsuits soared to 19,695....
The image of a future city undone by rising tides leading to “a kind of dystopian inundation scenario,” was invoked by Harvard University professor Charles Waldheim in a presentation to the Miami Beach city...
Florida personal injury protection insurance scrutinized
April 13, 2018
In Florida, the limits for PIP are $10,000, which can become a challenge when considering that when the insurer is required to pay, there are often baseless litigations associated with the no-fault cases...
New $5M campaign warns Floridians about driving while high
April 13, 2018
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles just launched the “Drive Baked, Get Busted” campaign, a brand new $5 million initiative intended to discourage people from getting behind the wheel after they...