Florida Statute 27.12 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 27
STATE ATTORNEYS; PUBLIC DEFENDERS; RELATED OFFICES

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27.12 Power to compromise.—

(1) The state attorney may, with the approval of the Department of Financial Services, compromise and settle all judgments, claims, and demands in favor of the state in his or her circuit against defaulting collectors of revenue, sheriffs and other officers, and the sureties on their bonds, on such terms as the state attorney may deem equitable and proper.

(2) Any such compromise or settlement may be made with any of the sureties of such defaulting officer as to his or her individual liability, and a receipt to such surety shall be a discharge of his or her obligation; but the discharge of one or more of the sureties so compromised and settled with shall not operate as a discharge of the principal or other sureties from the judgment, claim, or demand in favor of the state.

History.—s. 1, ch. 3236, 1881; RS 1351; GS 1786; RGS 3016; CGL 4752; ss. 12, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 122, ch. 95-147; s. 82, ch. 2003-261.

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Cases Citing Statute 27.12

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Lawnwood Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Seeger, 990 So. 2d 503 (Fla. 2008).

Cited 38 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2008 WL 3926860

art. IV, § 14, cl. 18; Wyo. Const., art. III, § 27. [12] While not referencing "privilege," the 1885

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Bill Gilbert v. Alta Health & Life Ins. Co., 276 F.3d 1292 (11th Cir. 2001).

Cited 26 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 27 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1358, 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 27200

pay insurance benefits, codified at Ala. Code § 27-12-24, allows for the award of punitive and/or extracontractual

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Linda Swerhun v. The Guardian Life Ins. Co. Of Am., 979 F.2d 195 (11th Cir. 1992).

Cited 26 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 32491, 1992 WL 348169

action into Alabama’s “twisting” statute, Ala.Code § 27-12-6 (1977), and held that ERISA preempted plaintiffs’

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Johnny E. Walker v. S. Co. Servs., 279 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2002).

Cited 21 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 27 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1417, 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 886, 2002 WL 86676

unwillingness to disperse benefits violated Alabama Code § 27-12-24, which creates liability for bad faith refusal

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Haynes v. Lloyd, 533 So. 2d 944 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988).

Cited 17 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1988 WL 123683

...This language is, in substance, from paragraph 5 of the Fall-Down Negligence Complaint, Form 1.951, Forms for use of the Rules of Civil Procedure, approved by the Supreme Court, 265 So.2d 25 at 42. See also W. Prosser & W. Keeton, The Law of Torts § 61 p. 426 (5th Ed. 1984); 5 F. Harper, F. James & O. Gray, The Law of Torts § 27.12 p....

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Roy A. Mullenix, Arletta Howerton, Tom Willey & Mary Willey v. Aetna Life & Cas. Ins. Co., 912 F.2d 1406 (11th Cir. 1990).

Cited 7 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 12 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2698, 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 16908, 1990 WL 129272

or convert, any insurance policy. Alabama Code § 27-12-6 (1977). Plaintiffs claimed that ERISA did not

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Adler v. Key Fin. Servs., Inc., 553 So. 2d 284 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 142688

J. White & R. Summers, Uniform Commercial Code § 27-12, at 604 (3d ed. 1988) (definition of "debtor" under

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Iber v. RPA Intern. Corp., 585 So. 2d 367 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1991 Fla. App. LEXIS 8042, 1991 WL 152941

...s therefore entitled to expect that the owner has taken reasonable care for his safety. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 332 comment (d); W. Prosser & W. Keeton, The Law of Torts, § 61 (5th ed. 1984); F. Harper, F. James & O. Gray, The Law of Torts § 27.12 (2d ed....

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Ellen Gayle Moore v. Liberty Nat'l Ins. Co, 267 F.3d 1209 (11th Cir. 2001).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 21131

business of insurance. The statute, codified at section 27-12-11 of the Alabama Code, provides as follows:

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Ellen Gayle Moore v. Liberty Nat'l Ins. Co, 267 F.3d 1209 (11th Cir. 2001).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

plaintiffs’ claims. Second, it contends that § 27-12-11(a) of the Alabama Code, which prohibits discrimination

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Grant v. Southtrust Bank of Nw. Florida, 605 So. 2d 171 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 18 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 985, 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 9995, 1992 WL 227869

White & Robert S. Summers, Uniform Commercial Code § 27-12, at 602 (3d ed. 1988) (footnote omitted; emphasis

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Farlow v. Union Cent. Life Ins., 874 F.2d 791 (11th Cir. 1989).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Alabama Trade Practices Law. See Ala.Code § 27-12-1 to § 27-12-24 (1977). More specifically, the twisting

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Gilbert v. Alta Health & Life Ins., 276 F.3d 1292 (11th Cir. 2001).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

to pay insurance benefits, codified at Ala.Code § 27-12-24, allows for the award of punitive and/or extracontractual

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Tiberio P. DeJulio v. State of Georgia, 290 F.3d 1291 (11th Cir. 2001).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

policies in this state . . . ." Ala. Code § 27-12-24 (2001).

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