William Rabb

Florida's top insurance regulator and some insurance producers, including the former president of the Latin American Association of Insurance Agents, are questioning a report that suggests policyholders in Hispanic neighborhoods in the state pay much higher premiums.

For almost eight years now, South Carolina bars, restaurants and music venues have faced a sobering situation brought on by a 2018 state law that requires

The Great American Insurance Group is off the hook for a chunk of a grocery chain's $1.4 billion settlement in opioid litigation, a North Carolina court found in a case that hinged on the wording of the settlement and the corporate structure of a parent firm and its subsidiaries.

Over the last half-century as an insurance agency owner in south Florida, Tom Lynch has seen the ups and downs of the state's property-casualty insurance market, from the rise of direct-to-consumer policies, to spiking premiums for homeowners and a statewide insurance crisis, to the flood of artificial intelligence in the industry. He's also seen things from other perspectives—as a homeowner, mayor of Florida communities, and school board chairman.

Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co., now Florida's second-largest property insurer behind only State Farm Florida, continues to rebound from the dark days of Florida's insurance crisis, with new policies, higher profits and an improved combined ratio.

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a major legal victory in May when a Florida jury found that plaintiffs had failed to prove that the defense and aerospace giant had polluted groundwater around its Orlando manufacturing site and caused disease in nearby residents.

A Florida appeals court has upheld a $103 million jury award against Ford Motor Co. after a modified Ford Mustang exploded in 2017, leaving the owner with severe burns over much of his body and the loss of his hands. The appeal was centered on the scope of a Florida legal doctrine that determines when product-defect lawsuits should be heard by a jury. It's a doctrine that many manufacturers and insurers have long objected to.

Boca Raton-based Edison Insurance Co., now with more than 145,000 policies in force, has joined the list of Florida property insurers filing for rate decreases this year, three years after state lawmakers approved significant disincentives for claims litigation.

Four years after Florida lawmakers ordered condominium buildings to be inspected regularly in the wake of the deadly Surfside collapse, a state report shows that more than 8,700 buildings have now been inspected.

A Broward County jury on Thursday exonerated the Simpson Thacher & Bartlett law firm, finding the large New York firm's lawyers were not negligent in the downfall of Patriot National, the Florida insurance services firm that went bankrupt a decade ago.