One of the keys to further reforming Florida’s homeowners property insurance marketplace is tackling the growing fraud by a small but determined number of contractors. There’s new insight on how further expanding the state’s fraud investigation …
The Florida Senate’s Banking and Insurance Committee reconvened the week before last to hear that the state’s property insurance marketplace remains in “dire” shape, with some companies losing more money than last year, prompting regulators to …
With the tropics heating up as we head into the heart of hurricane season next month, Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate has issued a timely reminder to consumers and the industry about …
Hurricanes are just one threat to Floridians and the property insurance companies that strive to protect them. Another is costly claims practices pushed by excessive litigation. It’s driving the price of insurance up by double-digits for most everyone. …
Florida’s new Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie made a poignant point in a recent speech. He warned against the “Amazon Culture” where people expect things quickly, including hurricane recovery. “Had Hurricane Dorian actually hit Broward …
A pair of Miami women have been arrested for posing as public adjusters and filing false insurance claims, in a two-year long sting operation run by the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) and Citizens Property …
All too often, my office receives calls from consumers with a familiar story of “this nice person knocked on my door and promised me I could get a free roof …and I got a gift card for just letting them …
Each week I have the privilege of talking to a handful of consumers who find me on the internet and want to share their story about the dire situation they are in because of a contract they signed. Part of …
Three Tampa area men who made the six-hour trip to the Panhandle to supposedly help elderly Hurricane Michael victims repair their damaged homes have been sentenced to 30-37 months in federal prison and will have to …
Authorities in the Tampa Bay area have finished another big police sting, arresting 118 unlicensed contractors who offered to perform $540,000 worth of home repairs. Some of them were second offenders – making it a felony – …
