Three individuals were arrested in unrelated but similar PIP fraud investigations in Miami, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. Chiropractor David Louis Hirschenson, 55, was arrested for illegally soliciting accident victims and obtaining vehicle crash reports. Nester Sanchez, …
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 …
Authorities say a 6-year-old girl was injured when she fell from a third-story balcony at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Villas. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office reports that the girl, whose name wasn’t released, fell Monday evening from her family’s …
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the conviction of Alain Guevara, 29, of Lehigh Acres for staging a motor vehicle accident. Guevera pleaded guilty this week at the beginning of a jury trial scheduled in the 20th Judicial Circuit …
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 …
For the fourth straight year, employers across the state could have to pay more for their workers’ compensation insurance. Insurers are seeking a 1 percent increase in the insurance that employers purchase to cover on-the-job injuries. The main cause for …
When litigating the insurance policy provisions, no one is surprised when an insured’s attorney requests the deposition of an insurer’s corporate representative. Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.380 (b)(6) allows a party to request a corporation to designate a corporate …
Five people were arrested in a Florida organized workers’ compensation scheme. The arrests of Otto Biltres, Tampa, 41; Charles Brown, Tarpon Springs, 38; Kelly Bree Brown, Tarpon Springs, 34; Johnny Alton Lewis, Clearwater, 51; and Joseph T. Jordan, Palm Harbor, …
For decades, if an insured did not comply with an insurer’s request for an examination under oath (“EUO”), the insurer was entitled to summary judgment finding that there was no coverage for the claim. In 2012, however, in Whistler’s Park, …
A Polk County, Fla., jury has handed down a verdict in a nursing home negligence case totaling more than $1.2 billion in damages. The Lakeland Ledger reports that a jury spent a little more than an hour Monday before deciding …