Independent Automotive Damage Appraisers, known throughout the appraisal realm simply as IADA, is an association committed to implementing the latest technologies to continue to reduce the cost of vehicle repairs.

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What had most insurers nervous, however, was whether Gustav would cause the kind of residential and commercial damage sustained when Hurricane Katrina hit almost three years ago to the day.

With politics, laws, economics, and elections currently uppermost in everyone's minds, we asked a cast of Florida insurance experts to opine on legislative and regulatory "hot topics" of their