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Insurance

  • By Elizabeth King
  • April 22, 2025
FCCI Insurance expands excess and surplus coverage

A Sarasota-headquartered insurance company with $3.3 billion in assets is offering excess and surplus coverage to all of its regions.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Laura Lyon
  • April 17, 2025
St. Petersburg-based homeowners insurance firm enters market

Patriot Select Property and Casualty Insurance will offer the standard homeowners insurance policy, which offers coverage for home and belongings.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 27, 2025
Geico to open Tampa office, create 1,000 jobs

National insurance giant Geico is firming up its presence in Tampa Bay.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 20, 2025
St. Petersburg insurance firm to assume thousands of homeowners policies

Mangrove Property Insurance is poised to assume its second round of policies from Citizens Property Insurance, Florida’s insurer of last resort.

  • Florida
  • By Elizabeth King
  • March 12, 2025
Sarasota insurance agency acquires employee benefits firm

Atlas Insurance Agency has acquired Atlas Employee Benefits.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • February 14, 2025
12 from region on Forbes best employers lists, including No. 1 spot

Raymond James, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Publix are on a list of the best large and midsize employers compiled by Forbes.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • February 7, 2025
New York boating insurance firm debuts in Florida

Ahoy! Insurance, a New York insurance brokerage that specializes in boat coverage, is expanding to Florida.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • February 5, 2025
Tampa insurance agency e-Telequote cuts 218 jobs

The online insurance agency announced it was laying off the employees about four months after it was bought by a Chicago digital health company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • January 27, 2025
St. Pete based homeowners insurance provider enters Florida market

The firm joins several others opening in the state as officials look for Citizens Property Insurance to have less policies, and risk.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • December 23, 2024
Fort Myers Beach residents to pay more for flood insurance than others in Lee

A FEMA ratings downgrade and probation means residents of the barrier island will lose a 25% policy discount starting in April.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon
  • December 11, 2024
Arkansas bank doubles loan loss reserves from Florida storms to $33.4M

Home BancShares Inc.'s chairman says it "is a prudent and predictable course of action."

  • Florida
  • By Laura Lyon
  • December 3, 2024
Tampa insurance firm promotes from within for president role

Jon Ritchie has been COO of Florida residential property insurance firm American Integrity Insurance Group since 2019.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • November 21, 2024
FEMA downgrade costs Fort Myers Beach 25% flood insurance discount

Lee County and four localities learn that they will maintain their ratings and the discount comes with it.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Laura Lyon
  • November 18, 2024
Workers' comp premiums cut for eighth straight year

The new rates are effective January 1, 2025.

  • Florida
  • By Laura Lyon
  • October 24, 2024
Tampa insurance firm picks up Citizens policies worth $200M

The move is part of a larger initiative by the state to privatize more policies.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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