Florida News That Impacts You – October 21st, 2025
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- The first AI-driven insurance company has entered Florida’s marketplace after receiving approval from the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation. Stand Insurance plans to take policies from Citizens Property Insurance in coming months and will begin underwriting policies on its AI-based physics models.
- Boca Raton officials took up four different proposals for enhanced activities at the North Park recreation site. The proposals include a potential surf park, golf course, sports complex, or community facilities. The surf park proposal was favored at Monday’s meeting.
- Grean Sea Turtles are a conservation success story based on the latest reporting from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The organization, which tracks the vulnerability of wildlife has reclassified the once “endangered” turtle species to “Least Concern” after steady population increases in recent decades and years.
- Scattered showers are possible today but otherwise sunny and pleasant weather with highs in the mid-80’s, a little warmer than usual for this date. A thin plume of Saharan dust is tracking over the Leeward Islands into the Caribbean Sea extending through the central Atlantic acting as a headwind for tropical development. Related...
- The National Hurricane Center is tracking one disturbance in the Caribbean Sea The system is expected to track south Hispaniola and Jamaica with a 90% chance of development.
- Gas prices fell to multi-year lows on Monday with prices dropping two cents per gallon. The average price for regular unleaded in Florida is currently $2.87 per gallon. In Palm Beach County the average price is $3.06 per gallon, in Martin the average is $2.94, it’s $2.90 in St. Lucie, and in Indian River County the average is $2.88 per gallon.