08/07/2012 06:45 PM
The facts are, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is a last resort insurer for Floridians unable to get Florida homeowners insurance for their residences. The key words in that factual statement are...
08/01/2012 02:52 PM
With the U.S. economy slowing, everyone is looking for good news amid the depressing statistics. Here are some uplifting numbers: .22 percent. That is how much residential investment, including hom...
07/12/2012 03:41 PM
Unlike some other insurance products, term life insurance quotes are closely tied to time, to years. Specifically, term life is about a set period of time—a term, in a word. Whole life, by comparis...
07/12/2012 03:28 PM
You are about to buy a car for yourself or a child. You can’t get behind the wheel and drive it away till you have an all-important matter taken care of: insurance. It is a necessity—and a valuable...
07/11/2012 08:07 PM
Some home insurance quotes online seem too good to be true. And, in truth, some of them are. A good shopper is a discriminating one and that certainly applies to a homeowner in the market for insur...
07/10/2012 05:50 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio has eloquently chided both parties for playing politics with immigration, most recently at a conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. The f...
07/10/2012 05:37 PM
When America’s high court gave partial thumbs up to Arizona’s immigration law, supporters of the state law were disappointed that the Supreme Court justices didn’t deliver a more sweeping endorseme...
07/10/2012 05:20 PM
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the gun-sting operation called Fast and Furious seems to have been going on forever. Actually it has just been 18 months sin...
07/03/2012 11:36 AM
Who would want the job? That’s the question that pops into the mind of any knowledgeable reader of Florida home insurance news. Who would want to become president of Citizens Property Insurance Cor...
07/03/2012 11:28 AM
The growth of professional employer organizations in Florida did not happen unnaturally. It wasn’t a fad forced on an unwilling business community through the wonder of modern marketing. The growth...
06/29/2012 06:51 PM
When the U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, it made history: Holder became the first sitting cabinet member to suffer the indignity of s...
06/29/2012 06:31 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to give a pass to the Affordable Care Act caught most observers napping. Political junkies had weighed in and most of them who were honest about it expected the co...
06/26/2012 03:12 PM
Marco Rubio is a first-term U.S senator with a future, regardless of whether he ends up on the 2012 main ticket with Mitt Romney. Rubio’s work ethic in the Senate is being praised by colleagues on ...
06/04/2012 05:16 PM
For 115 years, operators of vehicles in the United States have considered it a good idea to carry auto insurance on their horseless carriages. The first policyholder purportedly was a Massachusetts...
06/04/2012 04:48 PM
Professional Employer Organizations, or PEOs, came into being in the 1980s when the economy revived from the stagflation of the late 1970s and started a long expansion. Companies large and small we...
06/04/2012 04:38 PM
Florida’s first tropical storm of the 2012 season dropped a foot or less of water on the northeast corner of the state, a soggy reminder that hurricane season again is upon us. Thoughts of home ins...
04/30/2012 02:37 PM
A young person has different insurance needs than a late-middle-aged person. What the two potential insurance buyers sometimes have in common is their bank accounts, which can be meager. So they as...
04/26/2012 09:24 PM
Fifty years ago, Rosemary Clooney sang the signature version of “This Old House,” declaring her readiness at long last to walk away from the homeplace. “Ain’t got time to fix the shingles, ain’t go...
04/24/2012 06:41 PM
Wellness programs are a second-hand response to an evident need for people to take better care of themselves. The programs often are sponsored by employers as a means of making their workforce more...
04/24/2012 06:30 PM
It is an understatement to say this is an interesting time to be a homeowner in Florida. The homeowners insurance crisis that has been years developing is still in full bloom as the calendar keeps ...
