The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is reminding property insurers that they must report Hurricane Idalia claims information daily, starting Friday. The data should be submitted by noon Eastern time, every day, including Saturday and Sunday, through Sept. 6, the …
Preliminary estimates of insured losses from Hurricane Idalia have already begun, with about $9 billion in losses predicted for Florida alone. The estimates are far lower than some in Florida had feared and well below the $60 billion in losses …
King Insurance Partners, a brokerage based in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Hartley Insurance Services, the firms announced this week. Hartley, with offices in Port Orange, Florida, was founded in 2012 by Paul Hartley. He will remain in charge of its …
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine is headed to trial on health insurance fraud and money laundering charges after a federal judge this week denied all of his efforts to have an indictment dismissed. “Having now addressed all referred pretrial …
Thunderstorms dumped heavy rains that caused significant flooding in parts of West Virginia on Monday, authorities said. Gov. Jim Justice issued a state of emergency in at least five counties, enabling the National Guard to activate swift-water rescue teams and …
Just when parts of the property-casualty industry thought it was safe to re-enter the Florida market, Hurricane Idalia made landfall closer to the heavily-populated Tallahassee area than expected and brought heavy storm surge to the Big Bend coastline. Idalia made …
Floridians, Georgians and others in the path of Idalia are hoping that the hurricane won’t join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean storms whose names started with “I.” Since 1955, 13 Atlantic storm names beginning with “I” have been …
Authorities were still investigating Tuesday after a construction crane at a Miami hospital buckled and collapsed onto construction workers, killing one person and injuring four others. The 200-foot crane was in use Saturday at a part of HCA Florida Mercy …
A south Florida sheriff’s helicopter caught fire Monday before crashing into a Pompano Beach apartment building, killing two people and injuring four. The Associated Press, the New York Times and local news outlets reported that the Broward County Sheriff’s rescue …
Florida property insurers were keeping their fingers crossed Tuesday as the latest projections indicated that the worst of Hurricane Idalia may miss some of the most heavily populated parts of the state’s west coast. The National Hurricane Center predicted the …
