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Florida homeowners say roofers are making the deal for a new roof too good to pass up.

The tally, based on the website’ s True Cost of Auto Insurance in 2022 annual report, compared what 40- year-old drivers with clean driving records and good credit pay across all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C.. In Florida, the average driver spends 4.42% of their income on auto insurance. In a dollar-for-dollar comparison, Florida drivers pay an average $2,762 a...

Florida drivers pay the second-highest share of their incomes on auto insurance in the nation, behind only Louisiana. Why? Basically because we're lousy drivers who get in lots of crashes, we stage crashes with injuries to drive up medical bills, we let windshield installers give us gift cards so they can cheat insurers, and about one in five of us cheat everyone else by driving without insurance at all.

It's no secret that Florida is hurricane prone, but hurricanes are only one problem facing the beleaguered insurance industry. The Florida legal landscape is set up to benefit the policyholders forced to file claims against insurers. The cost of these claims have almost tripled in South Florida as contractors took the ball and ran with it, according to the...

While hurricane season historically peaks in Aug/Sep, now is the time to get your financial house in order so youre not scrambling to figure things out if a storm approaches/makes landfall.

As Florida homeowners wait for a special session on property insurance reform to convene in May, more and more insurance companies are facing trouble and homeowner’s premiums are going up while policies are getting dropped by the thousands.

For nearly two years, Hector Figueroa has been living with constant reminders of the damage to his home

According to the Insurance Information Institute, property insurance premiums in Florida are expected to jump 30-40% on average in 2022, with many likely seeing...

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Florida property insurance is a hot mess. One word: Litigation. In fact, more than 75% of all property insurance lawsuits in the United States originate in Florida.