Blaise Ingoglia is sworn-into office as Florida’s Chief Financial Officer with wife Julie and father Andrew Ingoglia by his side, July 21, 2025. Courtesy, The Florida Channel
Florida’s new Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia begins his second full week in office today with a vow to “work hard for taxpayers and consumers,” following his appointment by Governor DeSantis. Most recently a Republican state senator from Spring Hill and former state Republican Party chairman, he replaced Jimmy Patronis who resigned in March to successfully run for Congress.
Ingoglia, a New York native who moved to Florida in the mid-1990’s, owns a homebuilding company. In his first run at office in 2014 for a state House seat, I remember that he did a listening tour and wanted to learn as much as he could about what matters to consumers. That’s been his mode of public service ever since. He wants to make Florida’s insurance market better.
A campaign card from Blaise Ingoglia’s first public office race for Florida House in 2014.
As Florida’s CFO, he oversees the Department of Financial Services (DFS), which includes responsibility over insurance agents and agencies, insurance fraud, insurance company rehabilitation and liquidation, and insurance consumer services. The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR), independent of DFS, is responsible for regulating insurance companies and overseeing the marketplace. The CFO is part of the three-member state Cabinet, that along with the Governor, sits as the Financial Services Commission, which oversees OIR.
Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia makes remarks at his swearing-in ceremony at the Florida Capitol, July 21, 2025. Courtesy, The Florida Channel
In his media interviews since taking the job, CFO Ingoglia has made it clear he believes the 2022-2023 legislative property insurance reforms are working. “When it comes to the rates, what we’ve seen and what the data is showing that the reforms we put in a couple of years ago is actually bending the cost curve down,” he told Spectrum News. “I’m not going to sit back,” he told the News Service of Florida. “I’m not going to allow anyone to game the system, whether it is on one side or the other side, whether it is trial attorneys gaming the system or insurance companies gaming the system.” The CFO said his immediate focus, however, is going to be reviewing cities and counties for any wasteful spending.
CFO Ingoglia today has a clearer path to keeping the CFO job beyond next year’s open election. His rival for the position, fellow state Senator Joe Gruters, last Thursday announced he would pursue the chairmanship of the national Republican Party instead, and has been endorsed by President Trump for that post.
Up next: FEMA’s tentative game plan for the future, how hurricane payouts to Florida are impacted, proposed help for homeowners purchasing flood insurance, an important Hurricane Ian defense verdict in court, plus the very cute “robo-bunnies!”
LMA Newsletter of 7-28-25
