Slide Insurance: A House of Cards In Hurricane Alley
Business: Slide is a $1.9 billion property and casualty insurer based in Tampa, Florida. The company mainly writes single family homeowners’ insurance in coastal areas of Florida. It was founded in 2021 by husband-wife duo Bruce and Shannon Lucas, who serve as CEO and COO, respectively. Management Red Flags: A Florida statute prohibits executives responsible for failed insurers from taking on new leadership roles at other insurance companies. Slide‘s CFO, SVP of Operations and SVP of Claims formerly worked for failed insurer St. Johns Insurance prior to joining Slide. In March 2024, Florida’s insurance regulator sent letters instructing Slide to remove these three executives unless they could prove they were not contributing causes of St. Johns’ insolvency, based on documents we obtained via the Florida Public Records Act and media reports. Information obtained via our request indicated that Slide was still under investigation as of August 2025. Internet archives show that rather than remove these executives, Slide removed mention of St. Johns from its SVP of Operations’ biography and removed its SVP of Claims from its website entirely, though both executives continue to list Slide as their employer on LinkedIn.
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