CFO targeting insurance carriers, businesses on immigrants
Citizens Property Insurance approaches its lowest policy count ever, the CFO plans to target insurance companies over illegal aliens driving in Florida, workers’ comp insurance rates fall for the ninth straight year, a …
Reforms are working in lowering rates
Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky has been on the road, engaging with stakeholders in our state marketplace. The most recent examples: traveling with the governor to meet with reinsurers in Bermuda at the PwC …
Citizens Property Insurance heading for pre-2003 policy count
Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky went before both insurance committees of the state legislature this week to report the positive outcomes to date of the legislature’s 2022 and 2023 reforms. It happened …
A sea of good news prevails for insurance consumers
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 …
How the private market can help
Floridians are left unable to renew their federal flood coverage mid-shutdown, players in the private flood insurance market say they’re ready to take over that flood risk and write often less-expensive policies, and a …
Plus, a new study on small hail damage
A new report shows Florida’s insurance consumer and litigation reforms positively affected the price of reinsurance this hurricane season, Citizens Insurance accuses certain plaintiff lawyers of using “misinformation” in their quest to …
New challenges to its alternative dispute resolution program
When the Citizens Property Insurance Board of Governors meets this Wednesday (September 24, 2025), it will receive some welcome news: litigation has dropped by more than one-third so far this year over …
Late notice = No claim
Citizens Property Insurance gets a meaningful win against a late hurricane claim, and Frontline Insurance finds a similar success against a late windstorm damage claim involving an Assignment of Benefits agreement. It’s all in this …
Lack of cooperation in reporting plaintiff attorney fees
Consumer insurance reforms are credited for Florida’s declining auto insurance rates, regulators push for dollar amounts of attorney fees in claim settlements, Citizens defends its alternative dispute resolution process, plus a new …
By David Salmon, Esq.
Congratulations to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation on a trial win July 16 in Miami, Florida on a Hurricane Ian causation case! Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez presided over the trial. Jayson Serrano and Shawn Shaikh of Salmon …