UPC unlikely to rebound, lays off 70+ workers

Experts say the future of United Property and Casualty Insurance Company, known as UPC Insurance, is bleak and is likely to become the sixth insurer in Florida to meet its demise this year.

St. Petersburg-based UPC Insurance's parent company announced last week that its Demotech financial stability rating was being withdrawn after seeing a downgrade, and its personal lines subsidiary UPC carrier would pull out from its operations and go into an orderly run-off.

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Hub national security attorney ‘thinks like a spy’

An attorney that operates out of St. Petersburg’s Maritime and Defense Technology Hub is now leveraging his extensive national intelligence experience to offer clients security and compliance advice.

St. Pete native Alvin K. Brown is uniquely suited for his role as the only lawyer to call the Innovation District's Hub home. Brown spent over 20 years in operations, management, policy and compliance positions with organizations like the Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Naval Intelligence and U.S. Special Operations and Central Command, and many of the 15 other companies in the facility deal with matters of national security.

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