TALLAHASSEE - A Tallahassee court has lifted the state's order preventing Allstate companies from selling insurance in Florida. ...more

January 18, 2008

The state's feud with Allstate Corp. heated up Thursday, with the company appealing an order forbidding it from doing future business in Florida after regulators expanded their ban from auto policies to all new insurance products the company sells. ...more

January 18, 2008

The state's feud with Allstate Corp. escalated again today, with Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty forbidding the insurer from writing any new policies in Florida – expanding the ban from simply auto insurance. ...more

January 17, 2008

Regulators' brash move to boot Allstate Corp. out of Florida's future auto insurance market sharply raises the stakes in the state's investigations of additional homeowners insurance companies and how they set their rates. ...more

January 17, 2008

What does this have to do with homeowners insurance? Allstate's penalty stems from what state regulators say is the company's failure to comply with subpoenas related to an investigation into rate-setting strategies for homeowners insurance. Allstate is not writing homeowners' policies in Florida under its own nameplate, but its auto insurance business is lucrative. Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said the state is "going to hit them where it hurts." ...more

January 17, 2008

Referendum A Bill Of Goods State Rep. Dan Gelber stated in a recent Florida Trend article that "Florida has really major challenges right now, and we're just moving everything in the in-box to the bottom, hoping it goes away." That statement is right on point. ...more

January 13, 2008

Michelle Miller looked at the boards covering the three front windows of her house on West Berry Avenue and sighed. ...more

January 3, 2008

Beware The 'Rs' The less taxes, less government and more guns chairman of the Pasco Republican Party, Bill Bunting, wants everyone to support the state's ballot initiative on Jan. 29 that would increase the homestead exemption to $50,000. Isn't it ironic that the Legislature's support for raising the constitutional amendment passage rate from 50 percent to 60 percent in support of business interests that hate this voice of the people may well come back to bite them in the backside? ...more

December 5, 2007

Mark Vida of Hudson thanks state Sen. Mike Fasano for big decrease in Citizens Property Insurance renewal premium. ...more

November 13, 2007

For more than a year, insurance underwriter Robert S. Garcia Jr. falsified homeowners and motor vehicle insurance documents, leading clients to believe they had coverage when they did not, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office detectives said Friday. ...more

November 10, 2007