TAMPA - A request to raise home insurance rates for customers of the Florida Farm Bureau was rejected today in a final order issued by Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation. ...more

July 1, 2008

Six private insurance companies have been authorized to take 100,000 homeowners policies from state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced Wednesday. ...more

May 21, 2008

State insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty on Tuesday filed a complaint seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 20, 2008

State Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty filed a complaint today seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 19, 2008

A controversial but popular health care plan that came under state scrutiny last year is back in business and looking for new members. ...more

February 8, 2008

A controversial but popular health care plan that came under state scrutiny last year has received clearance to begin marketing for new members again. Nearly a year after being placed under state supervision, Universal Health Care Insurance Co. of St. Petersburg said Friday that it has received the green light from state and federal regulators to resume marketing its Any, Any, Any insurance plan, a Medicare program. ...more

February 8, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Labor Survey Pans Pulte Fifty-nine percent, or 236, of 400 Pulte and its Del Webb homeowners surveyed in Arizona reported construction defects in their homes in a report released Friday by Building Justice, which represents labor unions. Respondents with defects described faulty electrical wiring, peeling paint and bad air conditioners. The labor group says it plans to conduct the survey in other states where Pulte builds, including Florida. Pulte spokesman Mark Marymee said the group's motivation is to unionize the workers of subcontractors who build Pulte homes. Pulte has done well on other quality surveys, he said, such as J.D. Power & Associates'. "That is the survey we care about," he said. ...more

January 26, 2008

Accusing Allstate Corp. of engaging in an "ongoing crime," state regulators asked a state appeals court Wednesday to reinstate an order prohibiting the insurer from conducting new business in Florida. ...more

January 23, 2008

Behind the fight between Florida's insurance commissioner and Allstate Insurance Co. is a mystery that could have come from a John Grisham novel. ...more

January 23, 2008

With a sharp attack on the industry by a heavyweight national consumer advocate, state lawmakers on Tuesday opened their own investigation into why homeowners' insurance rates haven't dropped to expected levels. ...more

January 23, 2008