The district, known as LID 19, was designed to protect the Riverstone community from inundation from the Brazos River, but roughly a third of the 1,760 homes in the district flooded during Harvey’s assault on the region...
Wright Leaving FEMA to Head Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, Succeeding Rochman
April 6, 2018
Wright served as chief executive for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and led the reinsurance and risk transfer program that helped financially support the NFIP in the context of 2017’s record breaking storms....
Helping consumers protect themselves is the main goal of PCI’s latest survey examining the most “hostile” cities for people whose vehicles are towed, PCI’s Bob Passmore said. Houston Public Media...
Fourth District Court Tackles Application of Efficient Proximate Cause and Concurrent Cause Doctrines
April 6, 2018
January 2018 I’m pleased to bring you Florida Insurance Matters, a monthly update on Florida insurance-related legal developments. Please contact me any time with questions or feedback. Amy L. Koltnow, Esq....
Shocking title insurance numbers should kill merger, consumer group tells U.S. Department of Justice
April 6, 2018
Industry executives in Florida sing the merits, but the Consumer Federation of America says a proposed merger of two of the top four U.S. title insurance giants represents bad news for home buyers from West Palm Beach to...
Florida Specialty Insurance Company has been assigned a Financial Stability Rating (FSR) of A, Exceptional, following the implementation of a new action plan that includes a loss portfolio transfer and reinsurance program...
Florida And Pennsylvania Lead Nation In Number of Claims
April 5, 2018
Dog Bite Claims Nationwide Increased 2.2 Percent, the Insurance Information Institute reports....
Five Questions With Florida Peninsula’s Stacey Giulianti
April 5, 2018
Home insurance and comic books are rarely used in the same sentence, the Boca News writes. https://bocanewspaper.com/5-questions-with-stacey-giulianti-25624
Insurance Journal’s Patrick Wright analyzes Florida’s legislative outcomes for the insurance industry. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2018/04/05/485389.htm
Visiting a canal still choked by debris from the storm, the Senator said: “Get the money that we’ve already voted for down here so they can hire people to clean this up.” The Miami Herald reports via “The Buzz”...