Recently, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty announced his resignation. Our association applauds Commissioner McCarty for his leadership in guiding the state’s insurance market back to stability after the storms of 2004 and 2005. His work to help fix the mess of Florida’s out-of-control sinkhole claims was also particularly impactful to our state. After back-to-back-to-back [...]
More than a dozen Florida real estate, construction and insurance groups announced Tuesday that they are teaming up to push for homeowners’ insurance reform in the 2016 Legislative Session. The Consumer Protection Coalition seeks to curb a practice known as “assignment of benefits,” where owners sign away their insurance policy to a third party who [...]
A broad-based group of business leaders, consumer advocates, real estate agents, construction contractors, insurance agents and insurance trade groups announced today they have formed the Consumer Protection Coalition and are pushing for reforms to end Assignment of Benefits (AOB) abuse on its new web platform-FightFraud.Today. The Consumer Protection Coalition is devoted to protecting consumers by [...]
Kevin McCarty, who helped guide Florida's fragile insurance market in the wake of eight hurricanes a decade ago, announced Tuesday that he is resigning as the state's insurance commissioner, the Associated Press reported. Read more here