The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals certified 2 questions under Florida law to the Florida Supreme Court relating to 3 STOLI life insurance policies.
Read MoreThe Florida Surplus Lines Office (“FSLO”) has reported that, effective June 1, Florida will withdraw from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement (NIMA). Filings after June 1 will now be filed with the FSLO and not through the Surplus Lines Clearinghouse.
Read MoreOn April 29, 2016 it was announced that David Altmaier has been appointed as the new Insurance Commissioner for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and will succeed Kevin M. McCarty.
Read MoreKevin M. McCarty has announced that he is resigning as the Florida Insurance Commissioner as of May 2, 2016.
Read MoreFlorida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has been selected by the NAIC as the new chair of the NAIC’s International Insurance Relations Committee. McCarty has been very involved and outspoken on international insurance issues for several years on behalf of the U.S. insurance industry.
Read MoreTheodore Augustinos, Mark Schreiber, Thomas Smedinghoff, and Karen Booth, members of Edwards Wildman’s Privacy & Data Protection Practice Group, discuss major amendments to Florida’s breach notification statute, which will take effect July 1, 2014.
Read MoreIn Intervest Construction of Jax v. General Fidelity Ins. Co., the Florida Supreme Court considered insurance policy language that called for a self-insured retention to be exhausted by “payments made by the insured.”
Read MoreBy letter dated October 29, 2013, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater inquired with the Florida Office of Insurance (“OIR”) as to why insurance rates have not been reduced for many Florida homeowners given that reinsurers have lowered their rates. Atwater requested a response to the inquiry by December 18, 2013.
Read MoreBrian Green (NY) is attending the Aviation Insurance Association Conference in Orlando, FL, on May 4-7. The AIA annual conference is the biggest conference in the aviation and aerospace insurance space.
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