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Hurricane Season Begins with Prediction of Above-Average Activity

Hurricane Season Begins with Prediction of Above-Average Activity

| Written By: Travis Miller | Insurance

As the 2021 hurricane season begins, forecasters look for this year to bring an above-average level of tropical activity.  Just this week, the Tropical Meteorology Project in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU) updated its projections and continues to believe this year will produce an above-average number of storms.  Its forecast […]

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Flood Disclosure Adjustment Continues to Move

Flood Disclosure Adjustment Continues to Move

| Written By: Travis Miller | Insurance

A second Senate committee has approved an adjusting to existing law relating to flood insurance disclosures.  Last year, the legislature adopted a requirement for all homeowners’ policies to state that they do not cover flood damage.  Unfortunately, there is no exception in the current law for policies that actually do contain flood insurance in the […]

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Second DCA Upholds Multiple Assignments

Second DCA Upholds Multiple Assignments

| Written By: Travis Miller | Insurance

Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal has upheld the ability of a policyholder to make multiple assignments under a homeowners insurance policy.  Nicon Construction v. Homeowners Choice Property and Casualty Insurance Company involved a policyholder’s issuing assignments of benefits to two separate vendors.  The insurer argued that upon the policyholder’s assigning the policy rights to […]

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