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Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 7/6/2016

› Hurricane season is here. Are P&C insurers still prepared for the worst?
With the season apparently off to an early start, and a prediction for more activity in 2016 than in recent past years, is the insurance industry prepared if a major hurricane strikes the United States, or has it grown complacent after enjoying 10 years without a major U.S. hurricane?

Special Report

Florida Trend's annual list of top lawyers named 1,144 honorees this year.
  • Winners by Practice Area
  • Hall of Fame
  • Government and Non-Profit Attorneys
  • Up and Comers
  • and a full alphabetical list.
SEE ALL THE WINNERS HERE

› Blue Origin, OneWeb start work on Space Coast additions
Exploration Park at Kennedy Space Center has been a fairly quiet place since it was opened in 2011 to attract more space industry, following the end of the space shuttle program. But that is set to change fast now.

› Why Florida is waging war on lionfish
The first lionfish was found in the ocean here in 1985, believed to have been released from someone's personal aquarium. Now, Florida residents are waging war on the exotic fish that are harming the state's underwater ecosystem.

› Florida's traffic congestion is the 9th worst in the country - but some see this as a good sign
Nonprofit transportation research group TRIP released a study last week that names Florida’s interstate highways the 9th most congested in the country.

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