Florida Surplus Lines Center for Insurance Excellence

Ensuring the Future
 

PURPOSE

The Florida Surplus Lines Center for Insurance Excellence serves as a source of objective, rigorous, non-partisan research, data and strategic insights. The center’s work empowers regulators, legislators and industry participants to make informed decisions about insurance regulation, excess and surplus lines, market stability and health, and key sectors of the insurance industry, including life and health, property and casualty, and other specialized and emerging areas within the insurance marketplace. Interacting with regulators, industry professionals and other stakeholders, the center will drive meaningful, data-driven research on market trends and emergent issues impacting surplus lines and other elements of the insurance marketplace.

COORDINATION

The center works in seamless alignment with the Dr. William T. Hold/The Alliance’s Program in Risk Management and Insurance. The program serves as a distinguished academic brand and the center serves as an applied research and industry-engagement engine. The center strives to elevate the center, the program and the Wertheim College as Florida’s focal point for risk management and insurance education and research.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Providing thought leadership on key risk management and insurance issues, the center serves as the preeminent source of rigorous objective RMI research through:

  • Public Policy: Empowering regulators, legislators and industry professionals to make informed decisions about key insurance issues 

  • Timeliness: Developing, conducting, evaluating, promoting, and disseminating accurate and timely research 

  • Cutting-Edge Results: Identifying and researching emerging RMI issues  

  • Consumer Interest: Providing insight regarding accessibility and affordability of insurance products 

  • Industry Interaction: Facilitating industry engagement through hosting and participating in conferences and forums  

To learn more about the center, please contact Florida Surplus Lines Insurance Director Charles Nyce.

To learn more about the Dr. William T. Hold/The Alliance’s Program in Risk Management and Insurance in the Herbert Wertheim College of Business, please visit our academic website, wertheim.fsu.edu/rmi.