American Coastal Insurance Company is back in the catastrophe bond market and seeking $100 million or more in Florida named storm reinsurance protection from the issuance of a new Armor Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-2) transaction, Artemis has learned.This will be the second Armor Re II catastrophe bond from the insurer of 2024, having sponsored … Read more
Dr. Savanna Barry, Florida Sea Grant Regional Specialized Agent for the Nature Coast and administrator of FFA, with Jack Payne, member of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board, at 2024 Sea Grant Week. Florida Sea Grant’s Florida Friendly Fishing certification programs received the 2024 Superior Outreach Programming Teams Award (SOPA) at National Sea Grant Week … Read more
By Lewis Nibbelin, Contributing Writer, Triple-I Georgia – frequently featured on the American Tort Reform Foundation’s list of “Judicial Hellholes” – may want to consider imitating its neighbor Florida in pursuing legal system abuse reforms, Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan suggested in a recent interview for WBS News/Talk Radio. In 2022 – the year Category 4 … Read more
Natalia Uribe-CastañedaUniversity of Central FloridaExecutive Branch Natalia Uribe-Castañeda is a University of Florida Ph.D. graduate from Colombia, who recently obtained her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology, under advisor Dr. Martin Main in UF’s School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). Uribe-Castañeda’s dissertation, titled “Community Engagement in Coral Reef Restoration”, investigates strategies that organizations use to engage … Read more
While lawsuits against insurers in Florida are said to have declined again across the first three quarters of 2024, the claims environment following hurricane Milton is expected to provide a “true test” for the legislative reforms that were enacted to reduce the litigious property insurance environment in the state.It’s the second year running that litigated … Read more