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Even after purging out topics which, while I was distracted with earning a paycheck, either burned out or were discussed to death elsewhere online, there are still enough items worthy of mentioning to merit a “chop suey” post: The Sun-Sentinel’s House Keys blog mentioned that Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty has been making the rounds, touting how [...]
Of course, we don’t necessarily have to wait on legislative season for festivities to begin. Via Scottrade: Florida insurance regulators held a marathon public hearing on the use of credit-based insurance scoring, with representatives of five insurance companies and several consumer interests giving testimony, in advance of the upcoming legislative session. Five insurance companies — Allstate, [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Commissioner has imposed some conditions: Mr. McCarty laid down a number of conditions including none of the company’s policyholders ending up in Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-created insurer of last resort. Citizens has grown in recent years to become the state’s largest home insurer. […] Other conditions called for [...]
Just when you thought the long-simmering battle between large homeowners insurers and Florida regulators had chilled to the point of being merely a cold war (via the New York Times): Rebuffed by regulators in its efforts to raise homeowner rates by nearly 50 percent, Florida’s largest private insurer of property announced Tuesday that it would shutter [...] 
It’s been quite a while since I had any significant contractors’ liability or construction defect – exposed business in my portfolio of responsibilities. So, perhaps I’m either out of the loop or just happily oblivious….but “toxic drywall” is a new risk to me. Via Treehugger I came across this article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: The residents, many [...] 
One of the problems with working a day job is that it interferes with blogging. Sadly, for bloggers like me whose interests are too unfocused and whose writing style is rather amateurish, the day job pays better. While I was away, I flagged several articles I could point at, or topics I could write [...]
Since I do a little bit of Ocean Marine work, this article caught my eye: Because it has become so hard to dodge the U.S. Coast Guard and reach Florida to qualify for U.S. residency, Cuban migrants in recent years have been heading for Mexico, then overland to Texas. Last year 11,126 used that route, compared [...] 
Here’s hoping that Ike is to Andrew, what Gustav was to Katrina:
I know that several folks (myself included) were breathing a sigh of relief and discounting Fay as just a Tropical Storm. Maybe we get to upgrade her to "just a cat 1 with a wacky path". The 11pm update has her actually strengthening over the peninsula, and a forecasted re-landfall as a Cat 1 hurricane near [...]
Seen in the Orlando Sentinel: Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet had told the state’s risk managers to find potential buyers for as much as $11 billion in bonds that would be needed to pay claims if the state is racked by a Katrina-sized hurricane. But with financial markets in tatters, state money managers say [...] |
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