Florida Underwriter December 2008
Cover Story
A Look Back at 2008
Putting together a magazine is a bit like completing a jigsaw puzzle every month: Everything has to fit, and we need to make sure that people want to view the "picture" when we're finished. However,
Features
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Editorial
On October 23, the Florida Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in the case of Emma Murray vs. Mariner Health Inc. and ACE USA, which sought to reverse part of the 2003 workers' compensation
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A Conversation with CFO Alex Sink
Q. Florida Underwriter: The Cat Fund has been getting some very negative comments lately from the Florida Insurance Council, A.M. Best, and other industry observers. How bad do you think things are,
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Florida Adopts New Ratings-Based Reinsurance Collateral Rule
On September 16 the Florida Cabinet, sitting as the Financial Services Commission, adopted a potentially far-reaching rule providing for an alternative ratings-based approach to the reinsurance
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Contracting Citizens
At the end of October 2007, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. had more than 1.4 million policies, with the bulk of them in high-risk, wind-only accounts. At the time, Citizens officials estimated the
Market Watch
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PEOs Rolling Through Rocky Economic Times
For Florida's professional employer organizations (PEOs), these are the worst of times - and the best of times. The faltering economy means many of the small firms the PEOs usually count on for
