WASHINGTON--The Government Accountability Office is advising Congress that adding wind damage coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program will basically require rebuilding NFIP from scratch, accor
Besides removing the anti-trust language, the legislation would mandate that commercial insurers looking to non-renew more than 10,000 policies in a given year would have to notify the state Office of
A Florida appellate court blaming a "clerical error" issued, and then retracted, a ruling upholding state Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty's order suspending Allstate from writing new business in
Taking a cue from the Bush administration, a key House lawmaker last week introduced legislation that would create an interim federal insurance office within the Treasury Department, with backers and
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation advised an appeals court yesterday it should not hold a rehearing on its decision allowing a regulator to suspend Allstate's ability to write new business, b
Among its provisions are those freezing rates for the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., increasing the penalties for violations of the insurance laws, and changing the standards and procedu
By making the request for a rehearing by the Florida First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, the company can keep selling new policies while the case, sparked by a state request for Allstate do
Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that would revoke the insurance industry's antitrust protections in the state as part of an effort to resolve the difficulties facing the state's insuranc
Allstate's reluctant release of some 150,000 pages of documentation--including a consultant's controversial recommendations on claims-handling long sought by insurance departments, courts and consumer
The Florida House of Representatives has passed legislation designed to attract new insurers to the state and assume policies from the state-run insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Cor