For many Native Floridians, seeing snow is a fantasy only realized by visiting just about any other state beyond our borders. Many Floridians have never seen snow at all and for them, Dade City’s new snow park Snowcat Ridge will provide a unique frozen experience when it opens in the fall of this year.
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One of the issues the Florida Legislature will address again in its upcoming session is affordable housing. There’s simply not enough, especially workforce housing in South Florida. A new report shows one solution to the problem is right in our own existing neighborhoods and may take just years …
Another ongoing challenge for Florida is how to better control and mitigate the annual Red Tide and blue-green algae blooms that foul areas along the coasts and inland waterways of southern Florida. The state is now studying what health problems may be created by the blooms. Plus, national mover …
Speaking of infrastructure problems, four sewage lines broke last month in Ft. Lauderdale, flooding parts of neighborhoods and raising the alarm for a more accelerated program of sanitary water line replacements. It’s the latest among a series of serious infrastructure problems facing Ft. Lauderdale and Broward County over …
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for dam failures that led to the flooding of thousands of homes and businesses in Houston, Texas during 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. The potential impact of that decision, plus a …
2020 is presenting growing challenges to the property insurance market. Competition is keeping rates low, reinsurance costs are rising, there’s loss creep from Hurricanes Irma and now Michael, plus a backlog of claims litigation craziness as we introduced at the beginning of this newsletter. Some pushback and insight in this week’s Insurance Digest.…
The Florida Legislature begins its 2020 session a week from tomorrow with the State of the State address by the Governor. While the automobile AOB bill has hit a bump in the road, there are other important insurance and related bills primed for progress. But issue one is the budget. The Governor has …
As we start the New Year, Lisa Miller & Associates is recommitting itself to consumers. We are working with a select group of folks to “re-balance” Florida’s property insurance claims environment because a certain group of unprofessional “professionals” has decided to take advantage of unsuspecting consumers.
As a result of this resolve, I felt compelled …
