We open this edition hoping that all of you had a wonderful celebration. The dates of the Christian holiday of Easter and the Jewish holiday of Passover are determined by the Vernal Equinox. While Passover celebrates the ancient Jews leaving Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, and Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus over 2,000 …
As long anticipated, weather forecasters have increased Hurricane Michael’s strength to a Category 5 storm when it made landfall last October 10th, making it the first Cat 5 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida in 1992 ̶ and …
Another contractor has been arrested for an Assignment of Benefits (AOB) insurance fraud and one of his alleged victims is a Hurricane Michael survivor. Meanwhile, recently released statistics show Florida has maintained the dubious position of number one in the nation for fraud and is …
With just two full weeks left in the scheduled 2019 legislative session, budget negotiators are trying to reconcile an approximately $400 difference between the proposed House and Senate budgets for the next fiscal year. The need to fund hurricane recovery in the Panhandle as …
The Florida Legislature this year is looking at an idea that many of us in disaster management and insurance have been frustrated hasn’t gotten much traction over the years: move more utility lines underground to help prevent electricity outages during hurricanes and other disasters. Bills to do just …
2019 is shaping up to be another year for catastrophic flooding and we’re not even into hurricane season yet. The winter’s California floods and this spring’s heavy storms across the Central U.S. have authorities using every piece of new technology at their disposal to predict and control downstream flooding. …
Alachua County has become the first Florida County to raise the legal age for buying tobacco to 21. The move is meant to make it harder for high schoolers to get cigarettes and to also stem the double-digit increase in vaping and use of other electronic smoking products. …
In the year 1163, the first stone of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral was placed with Pope Alexander III in attendance. The cathedral, which houses the crown of thorns relic, sits on the Île de la Cité, an island in the center of the Seine River within the Paris Basin. The construction of Notre …
