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Floridians with homeowner, commercial and liability insurance polices will pay a third 2 percent surcharge to help cover claims against four insurers that went belly up after a series of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty agreed on Monday to the surcharge, which als...
11/01/2007
  Talking with many homeowners in South Florida regarding Wind Mitigation Inspections and the mandated discounts, I am amazed at the amount of mis-information that is being broadcasted via the insurance agent community.First let's start out by outlining what and why the inspections and discounts ...
10/31/2007
  Talking with many homeowners in South Florida regarding Wind Mitigation Inspections and the mandated discounts, I am amazed at the amount of mis-information that is being broadcasted via the insurance agent community.First let's start out by outlining what and why the inspections and discounts ...
10/31/2007
Nearly six months after expanding statewide, the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program is increasing standards for participating wind inspection firms, in a continued effort to improve the quality of inspections provided for Florida homeowners. After undergoing a quality assurance review of more th...
10/30/2007
TAMPA - The state Department of Financial Services is considering legal action against a former My Safe Florida Home inspector.Specifically, the state wants to stop Gordon Miller, who worked for AmeriPro Inspection Corp., from "potentially threatening or harassing" homeowners, officials said Mond...
10/30/2007
South Carolina Once again, the cost of hurricane upgrades will be on the back of all tax payers in South Carolina.  Released today, modifications outlining Chapter 15, Title 38, Article 15 "South Carolina Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program designed to provide, including site built single family,...
10/25/2007
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Oct. 22, 2007 - On Saturday, Florida's House of Representatives released its updated property tax reform plan, which includes a number of initiatives favored by Florida Realtors. House leaders now hope to build a bipartisan consensus to show the Senate that they're serious abo...
10/22/2007
Florida's investigation into the insurance industry's alleged conspiracy to keep home premiums high widened Tuesday to include Allstate.In announcing a new round of subpoenas - these against the state's second-largest private insurer - Gov. Charlie Crist minced no words."I have said it before, th...
10/22/2007
With windstorm premiums skyrocketing, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (FLOIR) had the opportunity to push through legislation mandating insurance carriers to make available significant discounts for homes in which certain construction features lend in making the structure less vulnerab...
10/19/2007
 Coral Springs, FLFloridians could soon get relief from rising wind storm premiums.Due to launch this November, insurancediscountinspections.com (IDI), a consumer service company specifically designed to help Floridians lower the wind storm premium of their existing homeowner policy."This is a ne...
10/16/2007
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