Barry Gilway has been called an insurance industry dynamo," valuating strategic acquisitions and opportunities for Zurich North America, W.R. Berkley Corp. and Crum & Forster.
More important for those overseeing Florida's insurer of last resort, Gilway has experience both running a large firm and reducing the size of a company that had overextended itself.
With two months to go until the primary, despite refusing to commit to an upcoming debate, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack is ahead of his Republican rivals in the polls and the GOP leadership is increasingly rallying behind the congressman to be their partys choice to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November.
On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi became the latest high-profile Republican to endorse Macks Senate bid.
The two Republican candidates seeking to replace term-limited state Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, looked to stress their conservative credentials as they added endorsements on Wednesday in the race to represent Duval and Nassau counties.
Former state Rep. Aaron Bean unveiled the support of the Florida Medical Association (FMA) on Wednesday as he looks to return to Tallahassee. And Rep. Mike Weinstein, R-Jacksonville, announced he has the support of Rep. Larry Metz, R-Eustis, who reinforced Weinstein's conservative credentials.
President Barack Obama will come to the key battleground state of Ohio on Thursday to weigh in on the economy -- and to argue that he needs more time to turn back the economic policies backed by former President George W. Bush.
Obama is also expected to attempt to tie former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who has won enough delegates to claim the Republican presidential nomination, to the policies backed by the Bush White House.
Gov. Rick Scott's appointed Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection held its first public hearing Tuesday morning near Sanford, the site of the Trayvon Martin shooting that spurred the new look at the state's self-defense law.
The panel is charged with studying the 2005 Stand Your Ground law, which says people out in the streets have no duty to try to retreat before shooting someone to death in self-defense. The committee is expected to report its findings to Scott and the Legislature.
WASHINGTON -- Among the lessons of this presidential election season, perhaps most salient is that the so-called Ordinary American is dead.
Leon County Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford incorrectly interpreted the state Constitution when striking down the law requiring that state workers contribute to their taxpayer-funded pension, contend attorneys for Gov. Rick Scott.
Former Justice Raoul Cantero, representing the state, wrote in the 44-page brief for the Florida Supreme Court that legislative appropriations supersede collective bargaining or that the state plan shouldnt be considered a taking -- as Fulford ruled on March 6 -- because individuals' benefits remain untouched.
After qualifying Thursday to make the ballot, Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, has withdrawn from the Florida Senate District 17 race.
With five months to go until the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney took the tone of the contest down a couple of notches, hitting the airwaves and going online to rip into each other.
The Obama team Tuesday launched a new television ad in key battleground states -- including Florida -- that attacks Romneys record during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. The ad attempts to play a little political jujitsu, taking Romneys attacks and turning them against him, slamming the Republicans record on running up government debt and on job creation.
