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What you need to know about Florida today
› High-tech insurance firm enters Florida with aggressive growth plans
FloodFlash believes technology can be the key to getting claims paid faster, allowing businesses to cut their losses and get back to work faster after a storm. A lack of flood insurance is a multibillion-dollar problem in Florida and elsewhere. The main issue is people don’t know how much they need it until, well, they need it. FloodFlash launched in Florida and is working to identify agents here and in four other states: Virginia, Texas, Louisiana and California.
› Orlando, Melbourne airports set record for firearm interceptions
Orlando International Airport had more firearms confiscated in 2022 at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints than any other airport in Florida. According to data released by the TSA, 854 guns, a 28 percent increase over the previous year, were intercepted across the state with 162 of them coming from the Orlando airport.
› A commuter train along U.S. 1 in Miami? County unveils plan without El Portal station
Final plans are taking shape for a commuter train between downtown Miami and Aventura, with hopes for a station off 79th Street derailed — for now. The administration of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava this week presented its working plan for the $682 million rail system to run on the track corridor already used by Brightline trains. Like Tri-Rail on the western side of Interstate 95, the new county-funded train system in the northeastern part of Miami-Dade would offer passengers a north-south route along U.S. 1, with trains leaving every 30 to 60 minutes.
› Sharon Rowlands transforms Web.com into Newfold Digital
Sharon Rowlands didn’t know much about Jacksonville when she was named CEO of Web.com Group Inc. in January 2019, soon after its acquisition by a private equity firm. “I think I’d been here once before I moved here,” Rowlands said in a Feb. 16 interview at the offices of Newfold Digital, the Jacksonville-based company formed two years ago when Web.com merged with a competitor. “Jacksonville has been a delight.”
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