Now is the time to prepare your home ahead of Hurricane Milton, which is expected to be a major hurricane when it makes landfall mid-week along Florida’s Gulf Coast.

With the holiday travel rush just around the corner, many people are wondering if spending extra on travel insurance is really worth it.

Nearly half of insured Americans are finding out that their medical bills come with a litany of unexpected expenses.

Picking up the pieces after a storm, flood, or fire is a daunting task. Consumer Reports explains how to file an insurance claim to get the most out of your policy.

More drivers say their claims were denied for damage to their vehicles on a stretch of I-10, between Chaffee Road and Hammond Boulevard.

The Florida Senate is moving forward with several bills that could lower property insurance costs.

No doubt manufactured and tiny homes are significantly cheaper than traditional homes—but there’s often a surprise after the purchase. Insurance can cost twice as much.

Citizens Property Insurance, the state’s “insurer of last resort” is sending policyholders letters that says they’ve received an offer of coverage from another private market insurance company.

Gov. DeSantis is also making news after addressing the topic, on a conservative talk show, where DeSantis is urging patience and hoping for no hurricanes this season.

The price of food, gas, and houses keeps going up — even if it appears to be slowing.

After property owners in Florida learned they were going to be hit with yet another property insurance hike, real estate agents are also feeling the effects.

State insurance regulators signed a plan that will tack on a 1% emergency “assessment” to property insurance to deal with issues caused by several large carriers leaving the state of Florida.

As more private insurers are dropping customers and raising their rates, the number of policies Citizens Property Insurance Core has issued has doubled over the last two years.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a sweeping property insurance bill.

Despite pounding parts of the East Coast, Hurricane Nicole will not hit Florida’s insurance market as hard as Hurricane Ian.

As inflation drives the cost of everything from groceries, gas and housing higher, many Floridians are looking for ways to save money. With several factors driving the state’s car insurance premiums to be the highest in the nation, there are ways you can try to cut that cost.

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer is calling for a major overhaul in the way insurance is handled to prevent fraud in wake of Hurricane Ian.

A local family is pleading for the community’s help after their toddler was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, the same disease that her mother suffered as a child.

Florida’s home insurance market was already on shaky ground.

Hurricane Ian is threatening to further destabilize Florida’s home insurance market.

Consumer Reports says there are two ways to protect some of that investment: tuition insurance and dorm insurance.

The Clay County School district’s board approved an estimated $1,634,490 to cover its property/casualty/active assailant insurance policies, an increase of $287,305 or 21% over the previous year. Specifically cited among the district’s reasons for the cost increase is the rise in “active assailant premiums.”

Pointing to “almost incomprehensible growth,” the president and CEO of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. said Wednesday the state-backed insurer could have 1.2 million customers by the end of the year.

Nearly 80,000 Florida homeowners will have to find new insurance, after Southern Fidelity declared bankruptcy.

A contractors group and an Orlando-area roofing firm Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a new law that combines a property-insurance change with efforts to bolster the safety of condominium buildings.

Less than a week after Florida lawmakers rushed to make property-insurance changes, a contractors group Tuesday filed a constitutional challenge that targets a new restriction on attorney fees in lawsuits against insurance companies.

Do you have flood insurance?

Some people are cleaning up Monday in Rivertown after an intense hail storm swept through that St. Johns County neighborhood on Sunday.

Pointing to possible negative impacts for the insurance market and drivers, Gov. Ron DeSantis late Tuesday vetoed a long-sought effort by legislators to end the state’s no-fault auto insurance system.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he will sign a new law that aims to address skyrocketing homeowners insurance rates by reducing litigation, but part of the deal also allows Florida’s insurer of last resort to raise rates year over year at a higher pace than in the past.

In most states, you’re required by law to carry car insurance. A new Consumer Reports investigation reveals that what you pay for insurance often involves a lot more than just your driving record. It found that three major auto insurance companies-- Geico, Progressive, and Liberty Mutual -- quoted higher average premiums to consumers who had less education. The average consumer shopping for insurance has no idea which factors companies are using to set their rates. A good thing to do is to seek multiple quotes from different insurance companies to make sure that you’re not overpaying.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The latest effort to end Florida’s no-fault auto insurance system will get its first Senate hearing next week. The proposal seeks to replace the requirement motorists carry personal-injury protection coverage -- key to the no-fault system -- with mandatory bodily injury coverage. Senate President Wilton Simpson, a Trilby Republican who is backing the elimination of no-fault, said personal-injury protection coverage is “outdated” and doesn’t protect consumers. Under the no-fault system, drivers are required to carry personal-injury protection, or PIP, coverage to help pay medical bills after accidents. Disputes about the bad-faith issue have stalled past legislative efforts to end the no-fault system.