Up until last year, Vernita Tillman lived in her west Orlando home for 22 years with little trouble, but Hurricane Ian changed that. The heavy rain caused severe damage to her home’s roof and drywall. Tillman said she filed a [...]
More South Floridians homeowners find themselves stuck in a financial bind, paying for a home insurance policy that every year is on the rise. Add to this, a report released on Wednesday stating that climate change could cause some areas [...]
TALLAHASSEE - Estimated insured losses from Hurricane Idalia have reached $188 million, as the total continues to gradually increase. Idalia, a category 3 hurricane made landfall on August 30th, in Florida’s Big Bend area, where the Panhandle curves [...]
Renters in Florida could soon feel the same pains of the state’s property insurance crisis. What renters need to know is that rising insurance costs could force your rent to rise too. The impacts are far and wide for [...]
Police say a Trenton man stole construction equipment and went on a destructive spree just after 10 p.m. Monday causing an estimated $2 million in property damage to four businesses, according to early estimates. Police say Jesse Charles Smith, [...]
Property owners in Naples wait for city’s interpretation of SB250 because they are now caught in a predicament that creates great uncertainty as to which zoning code ordinances to follow when repairing or rebuilding a home that suffered damage from [...]
Last week, Florida was seriously impacted by another hurricane. Hurricane Idalia spared South and Central Florida but roared into the Big Bend region of North-West Florida as a strong Category 3 with winds up to 125mph. Thankfully, the storm [...]
The property insurance industry breathed a sigh of relief after Hurricane Idalia landed in a less-populated part of the coast, but regulators have signaled a need to make sure that claims from the area, now topping 10,000, are taken care [...]
CEDAR KEY, Fla. — As cleanup begins in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, the storm has served as a stark reminder that Florida’s insurance industry remains in flux. Idalia made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend just before 8 a.m. Wednesday [...]
When Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida Wednesday morning, it became the eighth major hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast in the last six years. And it may not be the last; Atlantic hurricane season hasn’t yet peaked, and the Gulf of Mexico has been historically [...]
