Although the weather has been blissfully non-eventful this hurricane season, the same cannot be said for the quagmire that is Florida's current property insurance market.

At a September meeting with the Florida Cabinet, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said what the insurance industry has been saying for some time -- homeowners' insurers doing business in Florida are losing money.

President Barack Obama recently spoke to America's school children (well, most of them, anyway) about the importance of working hard to achieve their goals. Perhaps this 21st Century president also should have mentioned a significant new-century problem.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting insurance fraud and vehicle theft, has released its analysis of reported suspicious activity for the first half of 2009.

I spend a good part of the summer going to various industry conventions, seminars, and conferences.

It was dueling lawyers at the annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference in Orlando in mid-August.

Almost lost amid the State Farm Florida versus Florida Office of Insurance Regulation battle is the story of how another former giant in our state's homeowners' market has become a bit player.

If you don't want to see your words blown up poster-size in a courtroom, don't hit that "Send" button in your e-mail program without giving it a lot of thought.