If you’ve lived or worked in Florida for a while, you know of its ongoing success story. The Florida Chamber Foundation recently announced that the Sunshine State, if it were a nation, would now rank as the 15th largest economy in the world, with a gross domestic product exceeding $1.7 trillion. The Foundation has set …
While the longest government shutdown in US history has finally ended, there are still issues reverberating throughout many industries. Particularly in low-lying Florida, federal flood insurance coverage lapses from the shutdown left many in a tricky situation, with FHA, VA, and USDA loans also stalling, sending shockwaves through …
Governor DeSantis makes a splash in Bermuda with the reinsurance community, the “tort reform dividend” to Floridians is promoted nationally, another auto insurance company drops rates again, plus Citizens Property Insurance Corporation gladly loses its spot as the largest homeowners carrier in Florida. It’s all …
A federal appeals court sides with Broward County Sheriff’s Office in an insurance dispute from the 2018 Parkland school shooting, huge allegations leveled against almost all parties involved in a Jacksonville condominium community’s hurricane claim dispute, and a Florida family gets their insurance company …
Florida’s historic Apalachicola Bay oyster harvesting is back open for business after a five-year ban, groundbreaking for a “huge” pump station is expected to accelerate Everglades restoration, and Tampa Bay Wave unveils a new accelerator program to help “bluetech” startups. It’s all in this week’s Environmental …
Hurricane Melissa was the most recent scare in this anomaly of a hurricane season – the category 5 storm wreaked havoc in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean but never made landfall stateside. Sadly, that hasn’t stopped tragedy from reaching parts of the U.S., including last Monday’s plane crash in Coral Springs, Florida where …
