Forbes: Fraud Pushing Up Premiums In Florida

December 31st, 2015|Daily News, Opinion Pieces|

Below is an AOB opinion piece penned by Steve Pociask of the American Consumer Institute. It was published online by Forbes. By some accounts, Florida has the highest homeowner's insurance rates in the country and rates keep rising, despite not having a major hurricane in the last decade. The culprit - a concentration of non-weather [...]

Insurance Journal: Flood, Fraud & the Florida Market: McCarty Talks Hot Insurance Topics in 2015

December 23rd, 2015|Daily News|

It was another busy year for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). From conducting the annual property/casualty data call and subsequent stress test of Florida property insurers, to working on the depopulation efforts of Citizens, to calling out the National Flood Insurance Program on Florida’s “unfair” flood insurance rates, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty [...]