Category: Florida News

Here are some bragging rights that we’d rather not have. Florida is once again tops among all states with the highest number of fraud reports.  The Tampa Bay Times reports via Crain’s Miami. http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/workinglife/Florida-is-still-the-fraud-king-and-Tampa-Bay-among-worst-metros_166092785?itx[idio]=6018337&ito=792&itq=3250f3ed-337c-4887-98c7-28126e7e268f

Over the past 4½ months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local contractors have collected more than 736,000 cubic yards of debris — the equivalent of 61,000 truckloads — as they rush to clean up St. Thomas, St. John …

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has appointed Nicholas “Nick” Lorusso as chief deputy of the Louisiana Department of Insurance and Denise Dunckel as the deputy commissioner of Public Affairs, Insurance Journal reports. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2018/03/02/482256.htm

Colodny Fass partner Sandy Fay in Sunrise and Broad and Cassel partner Nina Gordon in Miami represented Federated National Holding Co.’s purchase through its Federated National Insurance Co. subsidiary, Lidia Dinkova reports for the Daily Business Review today, March 6, 2018.

Irma Loss Increase Triggers Reinsurance Claim For Florida Citizens Florida Citizens Property Insurance is now expecting to make some Reinsurance Recoveries related to its Hurricane Irma Claims.  Trading Risk reports. America’s Flood Insurance Chief Has A Message For All Floridians: …

The Federal Railroad Administration should identify and adopt a method for systematically communicating information to railroads and use a risk-based approach to prioritize its resources and workload, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.

The Florida Senate on Saturday unanimously approved a bill that would curb the ability of health insurers and HMOs to retroactively deny claims, THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA reports via FloridaPolitics.com.   http://floridapolitics.com/archives/258039-senate-targets-denial-insurance-claims

Investigators from the Miami Police Department and the Florida Department of Investigative and Forensic Services’ Bureau of Insurance Fraud raided two clinics in Miami-Dade County, Ryan Smith reports for Insurance Business Magazine. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/seven-arrested-for-insurance-scam-in-raid-on-south-florida-clinics-93912.aspx

State lawmakers’ long to-do list for the final week includes a sweeping gun and school safety bill, an education bill and a payday loans bill.  The Associated Press reports via the Gainesville Sun. Final budget items start getting “bumped” Tampa …

At 20 of 80 railroad crossings in Palm Beach County no upgrades will be made to keep motorists, bicyclists or pedestrians from maneuvering around lowered warning gates despite plans to silence train horns along the rail line now hosting the high-speed …