Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance has reached a settlement with a Florida condominium association over a hurricane damage claim—three years after the association submitted loss estimates that insurers blasted as wildly inflated, even calling them 'outrageous.'
With virtually no debate and barely a word of discussion, a final committee in the Florida House on Tuesday signed off on a bill to create a clearinghouse designed to shift commercial insurance policies out of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and into the surplus lines market—an effort that could significantly reshape Florida’s property insurance landscape.