George Anthony, the dad of Casey Anthony, has “incapacitating” injuries following a weekend car crash in Daytona Beach, Florida. Anthony was driving Saturday on Interstate 4 — which was recently named the most deadly highway stretch in the country — when he lost control of his vehicle and it overturned several times.

OK, so not exactly the news you want to hear about after you ate that massive Thanksgiving dinner, but here goes... On Wednesday evening, the Florida Department of Health in Orange County tweeted that a food service worker at the Morimoto Asia restaurant at Walt Disney World had been infected with hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection.

Tennis star Venus Williams has reached a settlement in the wrongful death suit centered around a fatal car accident, according to court documents.

Claims for damage from Hurricane Irma in Florida have now topped $11 billion. More than 1 million Florida property owners have filed claims for insured losses from Irma, according to the latest report from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.

Florida’s second-largest home insurer, Security First Insurance faced more than 3,000 claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael earlier this year. It was the perfect time to deploy a new tool to help manage the load: A new chatbot servicing affected policyholders.

Devastation left by Hurricane Michael in Florida’s Panhandle last month evoked comparisons to Hurricane Andrew in South Florida 26 years earlier, but business experts don’t expect Michael’s aftermath to be nearly as disruptive beyond the destruction zone.

Gage Wilson and David Segal, technicians for the U.S. Geological Survey, were roaming the obliterated city of Mexico Beach when they spotted the missing sensor. It was a barometer that USGS employees had deployed in advance of Hurricane Michael, a pressure gauge housed inside a two-inch-diameter aluminum tube. The employees had noted the specific spot where it was to measure the storm: “Barometer located on second light post from Highway 98 in pier parking lot.” But there was no more light post after Michael destroyed just about everything here with a massive storm surge and intense winds when it made landfall Oct. 10. The USGS desperately needed that sensor to make an accurate estimate of the storm surge that barreled through Mexico Beach.

The tally of insurance claims paid after recent hurricane Michael’s impacts on Florida has increased by almost 28% in a week to reach $2.6 billion, according to the latest data from the regulator for the state.

The man Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton hired earlier this year to be its chief nursing officer allegedly murdered his wife, a successful lawyer with a $1 million life insurance policy, in attempt to collect large sums of money that would allow him to continue living a luxurious lifestyle, which included expensive cars and multiple mistresses, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Florida.

Tuesday’s midterm Election Day is filled with fascinating races coast to coast — from the Florida gubernatorial contest to the Texas Senate race, with control of Congress hanging in the balance. Not as many people are paying attention to the expected turnover among state insurance commissioners.

A Florida man says the autopilot feature of his Tesla vehicle failed to detect a disabled car on a highway, leading to a collision that left him with permanent injuries, according to a negligence lawsuit filed Tuesday.

A child rides his bike about 40 feet, turns and gives a few more pushes before it’s time to turn around again. He does this over and over, zipping past an open doorway where a man sleeps inside one of a motel’s run-down units.

Hurricane Michael has now driven more than $1.5 billion of insurance claims paid, based on data filed by insurers that has been collected and analysed by state regulator the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (FLOIR).

Hurricane Michael has resulted in almost $1 billion of insurance claims already, based on data filed by insurers and collected by local regulator the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (FLOIR).

Claims activity from Hurricane Michael, which came ashore Oct. 10 as a Category 4 storm, is in full swing almost two weeks later, industry sources said.