January 29, 2014
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. may have to return $16 million to homeowner customers who, for years, were charged a $65 application fee without their knowledge. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon ordered the application fees returned Dec. 12, saying Citizens broke …
November 1, 2013
A state-run insurance company of last resort has settled the remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit tied to how it handled claims after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The New Orleans Advocate reports state District Judge Henry Sullivan gave …
September 26, 2013
The head of Florida’s largest property insurer defended on Tuesday a controversial deal to pay millions to a startup insurance company that made campaign donations to Gov. Rick Scott. But Barry Gilway, president and CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corp, …
September 25, 2013
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the state-run insurer of last resort has its lowest number of customers since Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana eight years ago. Donelon says the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has 105,000 policies, representing about 3 …
September 23, 2013
Florida’s largest insurer could be shifting thousands more of its policyholders away from the state-created company and into private insurance companies. The head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. announced Friday that as many as 200,000 customers from across the state …
September 17, 2013
The state-run property insurer of last resort in Louisiana plans to lower commercial rates. The Advocate reports the bulk of those cuts would benefit the 352 commercial policyholders Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. covers in coastal areas. Those policyholders would …
September 16, 2013
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation on Friday announced it has filled a pair of key positions to enhance its financial and risk oversight capabilities as the state-created insurer continues the process of streamlining operations and reducing exposure. On Friday, Citizens President, …
September 11, 2013
Florida regulators are signing off on rate hikes for hundreds of thousands of Citizens customers. The Office of Insurance Regulation announced Monday that it has approved an overall statewide rate hike of 6.3 percent for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Citizens …
September 3, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Floridians who rely on Citizens Property Insurance could soon find themselves with a new insurance company. State regulators last week quietly signed off on a plan to let 10 different insurance companies absorb nearly 400,000 Citizens …
August 22, 2013
Florida’s largest property insurer went before state regulators Tuesday in an effort to win approval of another round of rate hikes. Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which covers many homeowners who live in the state’s more vulnerable coastal regions, is asking …