William Rabb

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.”

As with computer models that help predict risk from hurricane winds, insurers now have more than one model to use when gauging flood damage in storm-soaked Florida.

Florida employers will soon see the smallest decrease in workers' compensation rates in years – just a 1% reduction from current overall rates in the voluntary market.

Insurance carriers may want to examine policy language – and what information they request from insureds – after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court's ruling which could force Argo Group to cover claims that a wood-treating company caused a South Carolina fence builder's cancer.

A Miami insurance agent has pleaded guilty to defrauding a Georgia credit union by obtaining loans for condominium associations' premium financing then using the $6 million for personal gain.

Officials with Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corp. took issue Thursday with a number of national and Florida news reports that have suggested that the insurer has the “worst rate” on paying claims after recent hurricanes.