A pair of hurricane hunter planes landed at the U.S. Coast Guard’s Opa-locka air station Friday with a message for South Florida: Get ready. With the start of the hurricane season less than two weeks away on June 1, the planes helped showcase the advancing technology that has helped improve hurricane forecasting.

For South Florida homeowners, 2017 already figured to be a year of steep property insurance rate increases. For customers of two insurance companies, state regulators have made those increases even steeper than the companies sought.

The West Mims fire has burned 140,409 acres and is 12% contained, growing over 2,000 acres from Monday. The entire southern half of Charlton County (GA) is under mandatory evacuation orders as of Tuesday morning.

Wildfires this summer are expected to be most severe in southwestern U.S. states, Florida, Georgia and in some parts of California and Nevada, forecasters said Monday.

Two people are wanted by police after crashing a stolen vehicle into the side of a home on Mary L Road, and then taking off Saturday afternoon. Clearwater police and Clearwater Fire & Rescue came to the home where a Jeep slammed into a parked van and then went through the wall of one of the home’s bedrooms.

It looks like South Florida homeowners should brace themselves for another year of property insurance rate hikes. A legislative bill aimed at driving down costs for insurance companies, and protecting homeowners from endless rate increases, on Tuesday advanced to a final reading in the state House of Representatives.

Hurricane Matthew, which is estimated to have caused $150 million in economic losses in Canada alone and killed more than 600 in the Western hemisphere, set several records, Impact Forecasting LLC said in a report released Monday.

Florida officials on Sunday lifted evacuation orders for about 2,000 homes threatened by wildfires in drought-stricken central and southwestern parts of the state, after rainfall helped firefighters battle the blazes.

Florida’s strategy for dealing with property insurance in a state at high risk of hurricanes is getting high praise from a flood insurance work group of the American Academy of Actuaries.

The claim costs and other metrics of 18 state workers’ compensation systems are analyzed in depth in a new series of studies, CompScope™ Benchmarks, 17th Edition, released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).

Leading travel insurance trends aren’t just focused on hurricanes and illness anymore. A considerable number of traveler inquiries are now seeking to make certain that they are protected against losses from terrorism, too.

Once again, the end of Florida’s spring legislative session is drawing near and the property insurance industry is starting to worry that chances to enact reforms to stem financial losses are slipping away.

A tow truck driver died Wednesday morning after falling off of the overpass at the scene of a semi-truck crash on I-95 SB in Boca Raton, according to responding crews.

There were multiple injuries following a crash involving a Sarasota County school bus and a second vehicle Tuesday morning in Sarasota.

The security camera video is amazing. Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, a blue Toyota Tundra barreled through the front of “Sunshine State Armory” on Gall Boulevard in Zephyrhills. As the driver backs out, three men wearing hoodies dash in.