Tumbling catastrophe bond prices continue to exert pressure on the wider reinsurance market and are likely to curb rate increases at the upcoming Florida renewal, the Insurance Insider reports....
A new report from the National Employment Law Project Action Fund charges that Florida’s workers got shortchanged by state and federal efforts to provide disaster unemployment assistance following Hurricane Irma last...
The legislation, though, would offer a more-permanent fix by eliminating a prohibition on administrative and legal challenges. THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA’s Christine Sexton reports via the Gainesville Sun....
Specifically, the appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida’s environmental protection statute can only be used to sue for damages to property, not people, caused by environmental contamination. Floridians still can...
Sources in the gaming industry said Scott’s deal with the Seminoles wouldn’t affect plans by the Legislature to call a Special Session to address unresolved gambling issues. FloridaPolitics.com’s Jim Rosica reports....
Several issues were lumped together and passed Monday by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission, a panel of 37 members that convenes every 20 years to propose changes to the state constitution. The Orlando...
Even in Broward County — where 17 high school students, teachers and staff died in a February shooting that sparked a national movement to stop gun violence — there are fewer new registrations. The Tampa Bay Times’...
The NFIP is scheduled to expire and run out of borrowing authority in the middle of the 2018 hurricane season, Gloria Gonzalez reports for Business Insurance....
Analysis from global reinsurance broker Aon Benfield shows that alternative reinsurance capital growth again outpaced traditional market expansion in 2017, underlining its growing influence in the market. Artimis.bm...
The agreement between the two parties effectively ends the legal dispute that began late last year when NCRB requested an 18.7 percent homeowners’ insurance rate increase, Insurance Journal reports....