Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Many Florida homeowners shelled out hundreds or thousands of dollars to fortify their homes against hurricanes in recent years to qualify for insurance discounts. Some got them — for a while. This year, some homeowners are feeling the impact of...

Your property management company may be making money off your condo association's insurance policy. Some say that's a conflict of interest because management companies also help associations pick their insurance. "Referrals should be based on good...

I am amused by Rick Scott's claims of victory in this legislative session. This was House Speaker Dean Cannon's party. Scott entered the Governor's Office as a wildly firing cannon. It was Cannon who aimed the cannon at the targets he wanted to hit,...

By John Kennedy, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Shortly after he was elected, Gov. Charlie Crist set the tone for his term as chief executive by declaring, “lawyers are back,â€� signaling an end to his predecessor, Gov. Jeb Bush...

The cost of rebuilding homes in Florida dropped about 5 percent from 2009 to the first half of 2010, but you'd never know it from your property insurance bill. State law says premiums must be fair and reasonable, but it doesn't require them to be...

By Julie Patel, Staff Writer Two legislators and a group representing attorneys who represent policyholders slammed bills today that would allow hefty rate hikes for insurers and allow insurers to drop full sinkhole coverage. They're “some of the...

By Paige St. John, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Gov. Rick Scott has secretly pushed to kill Citizens Property Insurance before his first term ends, a goal that alarmed even representatives of private insurance companies seeking to remove Citizens as a...

TALLAHASSEE – Two opposing worldviews of Florida’s insurance market are clashing as the Senate debates a broad insurance de-regulatory bill that the industry has been pushing. In the new pro-industry, post-Charlie Crist chamber, senators...

I just got this mind-numbing number on sinkhole losses. The state-owned Citizens Property Insurance has paid out a whopping $867 million because of sinkhole claims between 2004 and 2010. To cover those losses, Citizens collected $272 million in sinkhole...

A Republican state senator is making a last deserate attempt to make sure people in Orlando continue subsidizing property insurance on the coast. This comes from Sen. Mike Fasano, who happens to be from New Port Richey. When last I wrote about Citizens,...

If you are going to make a fact error and have to write a correction, it might as well be a good one. With that said, the story in the St. Petersburg Times seemed  too good to be true. I have long ranted against the state-run Citizens Property Insurance,...

Newly elected Gov. Rick Scott wants to raise rates at Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to make them “actuarially sound,� but doing so would require homeowners covered by the state-run insurer of last resort to absorb a whopping 55 percent rate i...