Hurricane season is just around the corner, and the City of Tallahassee is encouraging residents to learn and prepare at a June 2 event. The fourth annual “Build Your Bucket” disaster preparedness expo will run from 9...
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund turns 25 this year. The Legislature created the official reinsurance pool after Hurricane Andrew caused more than $10 billion in residential losses — vastly more than was thought...
Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is trying to bring the public into his campaign to force disclosure of lobbying targeting Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s property insurer of last resort. Patronis wrote...
Colodny Fass shareholder Amy Koltnow obtained a significant appellate victory for insurers in De la Rosa v. Florida Peninsula Insurance Company, involving a late-reported water back-up claim. The trial court entered summary...
Expansion, greater diversification and focus away from Florida may have helped Heritage at its latest reinsurance renewal, which the firm says it has achieved at attractive pricing. Artemis.bm reports....
“Sovereign immunity,” a legal fiction as outdated as the divine right of royalty, explains the harsh warning that the families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been hearing from the Broward School District’s...
California, Texas, Florida and New York suffered the greatest financial losses due to cybercrime in 2017, according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report. State Scoop’s Benjamin Freed has the story....
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team of four to investigate a crash that left two teenagers dead and a third injured involving a battery-powered Tesla near Fort Lauderdale Beach Tuesday night, the agency...
No letters, numbers or decals on the tag can be covered, period, the Miami Herald’s David Ovalle reports. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article210801539.html
The property appraiser’s numbers show that there are 18,000 properties in the county that are not homesteaded, and that therefore are likely used as rentals (assuming they’re not vacant: many properties are.) ...