Citizens Board of Governors has approved recommended rates for 2017 that equal an average rate increase of nearly 7 percent statewide. The company said the increase is a necessary response to rising non-weather water losses and assignment of benefit (AOB) abuse that is now affecting all regions of the state. By unanimous vote, board members…
It’s the worst-case scenario: You get in your car to drive home, to work, or to the grocery store, but you never make it there. How common are fatal traffic accidents? Motor vehicle crashes claimed 32,675 lives in the U.S. in 2014 – around one person every 16 minutes. Although the country’s rate of traffic…
By Charles Elmore – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer One state legislator calls it “ridiculous.” A West Palm Beach lawyer whose firm collected about $5 million in a controversial role as “coach in the press box” for other attorneys at Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has stopped doing that job at least a year ahead of…