Robertstack

November 29, 2017 | Daily Business Review

After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs.

By Tami Abdollah and Michael Biesecker

12 minute read

November 28, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Florida has paid more than $11 million over a 30-year period to settle hundreds of cases that alleged that state workers were sexually harassed by supervisors and co-workers, or were forced to work in a hostile work environment.

By Gary Fineout, Associated Press

7 minute read

November 27, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Like almost everyone else in America, thieves tend to carry their cellphones with them to work.

By Mark Sherman

9 minute read

November 27, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A parent in Florida is citing profanity and violence in trying to get the local school to ban Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," itself a cautionary tale on the banning of books.

By Terry Spencer

5 minute read

November 27, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Address: 2400 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami.Property type: A one-story, 8,671-square-foot retail building built in 1965.Price: $6,800,000.Sellers:…

By robertstack

1 minute read

November 22, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A proposal to impose term limits on school board members was taken up as the Florida Constitution Revision Commission began evaluating 103 measures aimed at changing the state constitution.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

November 17, 2017 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Senate has hired a prominent Tallahassee lawyer amid a probe into sexual-harassment allegations against Sen. Jack Latvala, a Clearwater Republican.

By Dara Kam

12 minute read

November 16, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Would-be patients would have the benefit of knowing whether health care providers working at hospitals and outpatient surgery centers go to their own facilities to seek treatment, under a bill that has been fast-tracked in the Florida House.

By Christine Sexton

4 minute read

November 16, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Mary McLeod Bethune is getting support in both chambers of the Legislature as a replacement for a Confederate general who has long represented Florida in the U.S. Capitol.

By Jim Turner

5 minute read

November 16, 2017 | Daily Report Online

An insured's failure to notify her insurer for more than four years after an accident, and 18 months after filing a lawsuit, violated her insurance policy's notice requirement and was not excused by her lawyer being unaware that she might need coverage from her insurer, an appellate court in Georgia ruled.

By Steven A. Meyerowitz

25 minute read