William Rabb

A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort litigation.

More loss and claims estimates are trickling in from carriers after Hurricane Milton caused widespread wind and flood damage in Florida this month.

One of Florida's largest property insurers and one of its smaller carriers reported losses at least partly related to Hurricane Helene, which landed just

Six months after a North Carolina captive insurance firm for nursing homes around the country accused its managers of poaching proprietary software and

Officials in two Southeastern states have taken steps to hold insurers or recipients of insurance funds accountable after Hurricanes Helene and Milton spurred thousands of insurance claims.

Insurance carriers are not responsible if a bank improperly cashes a check made out to two insureds and gives the proceeds to only one of them, a federal appeals court decided this week.

Florida's Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a state-created layer of reinsurance, expects to pay out about $4.6 billion to help cover insurers' losses in Hurricanes Helene and Milton. But that won't trigger a surcharge on premiums.

A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton's wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential complex in Bradenton, Florida

The people at Brightway Insurance, based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jacksonville, seem to have taken employee satisfaction and performance to a

By this time next year, plaintiffs lawyers, who have frequently been held up as thorns in the side of the Florida property insurance industry for their sometimes-aggressive pursuit of policyholder claims litigation, could have a stamp of credibility to brandish in advertisements: “board certified in insurance coverage law.”