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Florida Statute 560.116 - Full Text and Legal Analysis
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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS
Chapter 560
MONEY SERVICES BUSINESSES
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560.116 Civil immunity.Any person having reason to believe that a provision of this chapter is being violated, has been violated, or is about to be violated, may file a complaint with the office setting forth the details of the alleged violation. Such person is immune from civil liability unless the information provided is false and has been provided with reckless disregard for the truth.
History.s. 1, ch. 94-238; s. 1, ch. 94-354; s. 699, ch. 2003-261; s. 13, ch. 2008-177.

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Cases Citing Statute 560.116

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Hucke v. Kubra Data Transfer Ltd., 160 F. Supp. 3d 1320 (S.D. Fla. 2015).

Cited 2 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176218, 2015 WL 10097623

...Such restitution shall, at the option of the court, be payable to the administrator or receiver appointed under this section or directly to the persons whose assets were obtained in violation of this chapter. Fla. Stat. § 560.113 (3) (emphasis added); see also Fla. Stat. § 560.116 (“Any person having reason to believe that a provision of this chapter is being violated, has been violated, or is about to be violated, may file a complaint with the office setting forth the details of the alleged violation.”) (emphasis added)....
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Cross v. Point & Pay, LLC, 274 F. Supp. 3d 1289 (M.D. Fla. 2017).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida

...ensed Money Transmitter.” Hucke, 160 F.Supp.3d at 1327 . While the statute “referfs] to possible restitution,” it is “only in the context of an administrative enforcement action.” Id.; accord. Fla. Stat. § 560.113 (3); see also Fla. Stat. § 560.116 (“Any person having reason to believe that a provision of this chapter is being violated, has been violated, or is about to be violated, may file a complaint with the office setting forth the details of the alleged violation.” (emphasis added))....
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Kevin Vericker v. Norman Christopher Powell (Fla. 2025).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

... or words with comparable meaning. See § 768.295. This stands in - 10 - contrast with statutes that expressly confer some form of immunity. See, e.g., § 397.6775, Fla. Stat. (2024) (law enforcement immunity); § 560.116, Fla....
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Steven J. Pincus v. Am. Traffic Solutions, Inc. (11th Cir. 2021).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

...44 at 16–17 (internal quotation marks omitted). Applying that rule to § 560.204, the district court dismissed Pincus’s count under Chapter 560 because the chapter provides only for administrative enforcement of its provisions. See Fla. Stat. § 560.116 (providing that “[a]ny person having reason to believe that a provision of this chapter is being violated, has been violated, or is about to be violated, may file a complaint with the [Financial Services Commission’s Office of Financial Regulation]”)....

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