Montgomery, Alabama, authorities have charged two workers – a contract employee and a firefighter – with insurance fraud in unrelated alleged scams. Local news outlet reported that Michael Gr...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/30/772118.htm
Larry Ellison plans to make Nashville the world headquarters for Oracle Corp., only a few years after relocating the tech giant from Silicon Valley to Austin. Ellison said Oracle is developing a ...
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman who sued Mississippi’s capital city over the death of her brother has decided to reject a settlement after officials publicly disclosed how much the city would p...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/30/772099.htm
Current and former leaders with Florida property insurers have had some strong reactions to state regulators’ recent efforts to oust company executives who previously helmed now-insolvent carri...
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Florida’s governor has signed two bills that will provide more matching grants for homeowners and condominium associations to fortify properties against the growing threat of windstorms. Senate...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/29/771963.htm
The Liberty Co., a rapidly expanding insurance brokerage based in Gainesville, Florida, has named two insurance industry veterans to executive positions. Bill Allen, who was previously executive ...
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The Florida Supreme Court has given auto insurers more flexibility in reducing payments for medical services under the state’s no-fault auto insurance law and may have finally put to rest years...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/29/771852.htm
Texas-headquartered Higginbotham, one of the largest independent insurance and benefits firms, has added Adams Benefits of Boca Raton, Florida, to its team, the company said in a news release. Th...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/26/771804.htm
A federal jury on Thursday found a North Carolina insurance agent and two Missouri lawyers guilty on all counts in a $4 million tax evasion scheme that also defrauded an insurance carrier. The ju...
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An employer cannot deny a workers’ compensation claim on the grounds that a shooting injury was not work-related then turn around and argue it has immunity from a tort lawsuit because the incid...
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A man that South Carolina authorities have called a ringleader of an insurance fraud ring, who once recruited accomplices while he was in prison, has pleaded guilty to staging accidents and defra...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/25/771623.htm
Two south Florida lawsuits against property insurers argue that two major carriers employed a business strategy of hiring inexperienced or even unlicensed claims adjusters after storms, practices...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/25/771443.htm
Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of Marsh, said it has a definitive agreement to acquire one of the largest agencies in the Southeast—Fisher Brown Bottrell Insurance, Inc. Marsh McLennan Age...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2024/04/24/771424.htm
Atlanta-based OakBridge Insurance Agency has continued its rapid expansion with the acquisiton of Strawn & Co., headquartered in McDonough, Georgia, south of Atlanta. Strawn is one of the Atlanta...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/24/771413.htm
West Virginia law, like statutes in a number of states, allows employers to try and apportion contributions to a worker’s injury, including how much a pre-existing condition may have played a r...
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Researchers at Florida Atlantic University are using a $1.3 million grant to see if huge blobs of seaweed can be harvested to help mitigate the economic impact on Florida beaches. The FAU Harbor ...
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted the city of Cape Coral a 30-day extension to provide more information on rebuilding in the area after Hurricane Ian. The announcement came Mond...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/23/771193.htm
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Coastal Georgia’s largest city will require guns left in empty vehicles be securely stored, an effort that Savannah Mayor Van Johnson says is meant to cut down on gun the...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/23/771175.htm
In the wake of last week’s widespread hail storm that damaged homes and automobiles, the South Carolina director of insurance said that emergency rules allow out-of-state adjusters and appraise...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/23/771158.htm
Three investment firms connected to some of the best-known names on Wall Street have upped the ante in a legal dispute over now-insolvent Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp., based in Tampa. Fort...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/23/771058.htm
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/22/770979.htm
Authorities have added four more insurance fraud charges to those already lodged against an city official in coastal Alabama. Prichard City Councilman Derrick Griffin last week was indicted by a ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/22/770884.htm
A subsidiary of Arbol Inc., a firm that has specialized in climate risks for businesses, including parametric insurance products, has acquired Sarasota, Florida-based Centauri Insurance from Appl...
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When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousan...
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky spokeswoman says the school is “distressed to hear disturbing allegations” of sexual assault by former swimming and diving coach Lars Jorgensen outlined in ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/19/770773.htm
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia’s largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police office...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/19/770766.htm
A former Congressman from North Carolina may soon be facing higher auto insurance premiums after he slammed into the back of a Florida state trooper’s patrol car on Interstate 75 near Naples. M...
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Tampa-based Slide Insurance has named former Farmers Insurance vice president Charles “Chas” Powell to be senior vice president of sales. Powell has more than 20 years in the industry and beg...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/19/770700.htm
Few people in Florida and California will be surprises to hear that the majority of homeowners in those states have been affected by rising property insurance costs. A survey by Redfin, a U.S. re...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/18/770608.htm
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump demanded Tuesday that police in a small town in Mississippi release camera footage of a chase that ended in the death of a Black teenager, ...
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2024/04/18/770603.htm