The most legally complicated claims market in America. Florida runs on hurricane churn — and on everything that follows it: assignment-of-benefits reform, litigation waves, carrier insolvencies, saturation of public adjusters, and sinkhole risk underneath it all. The rules here changed dramatically in recent years, and professionals who haven’t kept up put their clients’ recoveries at risk.

What this chapter is. The Sunshine Syndicate is the Disaster Recovery Trades Council’s Florida chapter, anchored in Orlando and covering the state. Members are restoration contractors, public adjusters, estimators, and specialty trades who work Florida losses inside Florida’s rules — admitted by application, pledge, and review.

For property owners. In a market this crowded, credentials matter more, not less. Directory members are reviewed before listing, display their licenses and specialties, and operate under an alliance code of conduct. Verify licenses with the state — we insist on it.

For professionals. Florida rewards the professionalized and punishes the improvised. Membership gives you verified standing, a controlled portfolio page, chapter peers who know the reformed legal landscape, and a national alliance behind your name during the busiest seasons on earth.

Questions about this chapter? Contact the alliance and choose “Regional chapters.”