Citizens insurance: Few take switch offers, more set for Aug.
Only 12,276 customers of state-sun Citizens Property Insurance Corp. have accepted offers to switch to private insurers in 2017, though regulators have approved a fresh round of up to 19,520 attempts...
View ArticleInsurer Citizens plans rate hikes, 9.3% in Palm Beach Co.
As its board meets Tuesday, state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. wants to raise standard homeowner premiums 6.7 percent statewide in 2018 and 9.3 percent in Palm Beach County. Citizens president...
View ArticleBiggest Citizens rate hikes aim at S. Fla. as contractors oppose plan
The board of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted Tuesday to raise homeowner premiums 6.7 percent statewide in 2018 and 9.3 percent in Palm Beach County and make sweeping changes in the...
View ArticleFew switch from Citizens insurance as up to 50,000 Oct. offers await
Up to 50,000 transfer offers are in the pipeline for October, but customers of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. are accepting less than 10 percent of the offers regulators approved so far in...
View ArticleFed up with Citizens rate hikes? Email or attend Aug. 23 hearing
Not happy with rate increases at state-run insurer Citizens? Now is the time to tell regulators. Chris Gardner (left), chairman of the Citizens board, and president Barry Gilway meet with the Post...
View ArticleSen. Flores rips Citizens rate hike, ‘borderline unAmerican’ moves
The Florida Senate’s insurance chairwoman blasted a proposed rate hike up to 10 percent in South Florida by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Wednesday and said she will consider legislation to limit...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Insurer Citizens expects 125,000 claims
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has received nearly 16,000 claims by Thursday morning and expects perhaps 125,000 from Hurricane Irma, a spokesman said. Citizens president Barry Gilway...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Citizens opens catastrophe response centers
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. said Friday it is opening Catastrophe Response Centers in Florida City, Key Largo and Naples to assist customers recovering from Hurricane Irma. Company...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Citizens expects more than $1 billion in claims
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. expects about $1.23 billion in claims from Hurricane Irma, though the number of claims is likely to be lower than once feared, officials said Wednesday....
View ArticleCitizens insurance customer? There’s a change in your rate change
State regulators approved a 6.6 percent statewide average increase for homeowners covered by state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. next year, and tens of thousands of Palm Beach County residents...
View ArticleInsurer Citizens expects to get bigger after Irma
After Hurricane Irma stung property insurers for $6.3 billion in claims and counting, Florida’s state-run and second-largest carrier expects to add customers in 2018. The board of state-run Citizens...
View ArticleWhy ‘unintended consequences’ spur today’s Citizens insurance change
When it comes to the costliest claims not caused by hurricanes, Florida’s second largest home insurer acknowledged “unintended consequences” behind a change approved by the board of state-run Citizens...
View ArticleBiggest Citizens rate hikes aim at S. Fla. as contractors oppose plan
The board of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted Tuesday to raise homeowner premiums 6.7 percent statewide in 2018 and 9.3 percent in Palm Beach County and make sweeping changes in the...
View ArticleSen. Flores rips Citizens rate hike, ‘borderline unAmerican’ moves
The Florida Senate’s insurance chairwoman blasted a proposed rate hike up to 10 percent in South Florida by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Wednesday and said she will consider legislation to limit...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Insurer Citizens expects 125,000 claims
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has received nearly 16,000 claims by Thursday morning and expects perhaps 125,000 from Hurricane Irma, a spokesman said. Citizens president Barry Gilway...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Citizens opens catastrophe response centers
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. said Friday it is opening Catastrophe Response Centers in Florida City, Key Largo and Naples to assist customers recovering from Hurricane Irma. Company...
View ArticleAfter Irma: Citizens expects more than $1 billion in claims
State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. expects about $1.23 billion in claims from Hurricane Irma, though the number of claims is likely to be lower than once feared, officials said Wednesday....
View ArticleInsurer Citizens expects to get bigger after Irma
After Hurricane Irma stung property insurers for $6.3 billion in claims and counting, Florida’s state-run and second-largest carrier expects to add customers in 2018. The board of state-run Citizens...
View ArticleWhy ‘unintended consequences’ spur today’s Citizens insurance change
When it comes to the costliest claims not caused by hurricanes, Florida’s second largest home insurer acknowledged “unintended consequences” behind a change approved by the board of state-run Citizens...
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