As 2015 begins, consumer advocates and financial news outlets are offering a lot of sobering advice to live within your means. I chuckle because that comes after a couple of months where every retailer and television commercial has urged you to buy, buy, buy. They also told you to avoid
CHICAGO — Car-insurance industry, meet potential disrupters Google and Apple. Currently, nearly all mainstream insurers that offer driver-monitoring programs use relatively expensive devices that plug into a portal under the dashboard. Usage-based insurance programs, also called telematics, are a small but growing segment of the auto-insurance business. Developing Android and
The Florida Health Insurance Advisory Board (FHIAB) adopted the 2014 Florida Health Insurance Market Report today at its meeting, held via conference call. Entire press release: .pdf | Office of Insurance Regulation
ST. PETERSBURG — Elisa Abolafia leaned her cane against the railing in front of City Hall and gingerly stepped to the lectern. The 60-year-old former private investigator suffers from severe scoliosis and four ruptured discs. Looking for work and too young for Medicare, Abolafia said she recently found out she
TALLAHASSEE — Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, left open the possibility Wednesday that his chamber will consider an expansion of health coverage for low-income Floridians. Gardiner described as “intriguing” a proposal that would accept billions of dollars available under the federal Affordable Care Act and provide coverage through private insurers.
– The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has approved the removal of up to 132,441 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) by the following five companies: American Colonial Insurance Company – approved to remove up to 5,441 personal residential policies, all
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office), Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS), and the Florida Office of the Attorney General (AG) today announced that a $1.2 million life claim settlement agreement has been reached with the Symetra Life Insurance Company and Symetra National Life Insurance Company.
Preparing to become Florida State University president Monday, state Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, submitted his resignation from the Legislature effective at midnight Sunday. Thrasher’s move Friday immediately caused a political chain reaction, with state Rep. Ronald “Doc” Renuart, R-Ponte Vedra Beach, and Rep. Travis Hutson, R-Elkton, taking formal steps
TALLAHASSEE — In an issue watched closely by business, labor and trial-lawyer groups, the Florida Supreme Court weighed the constitutionality of limits on attorneys’ fees in workers-compensation insurance cases. Justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case that stemmed from injuries suffered in 2009 by a South Florida man, Marvin Castellanos,
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has approved the removal of up to 180,040 personal residential policies and 2,527 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) by the following nine companies: · Anchor Property & Casualty Insurance Company – approved to remove up to 50,000 personal residential policies (36,000