Florida Statute 626.727 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE

Chapter 626
INSURANCE FIELD REPRESENTATIVES AND OPERATIONS

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626.727 Scope of this part.—This part applies only to general lines agents, customer representatives, service representatives, and managing general agents, all as defined in s. 626.015. Provisions of this part which apply to general lines agents and applicants also apply to personal lines agents and applicants, except where otherwise provided.

History.—s. 251, ch. 59-205; s. 17, ch. 71-86; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 3, ch. 81-282; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 241, 807, 810, ch. 82-243; ss. 64, 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 35, ch. 98-199; ss. 19, 72, ch. 2002-206; s. 20, ch. 2004-374.

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Cases Citing Statute 626.727

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State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Laforet, 658 So. 2d 55 (Fla. 1995).

Cited 197 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 20 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 173, 1995 Fla. LEXIS 569, 1995 WL 231202

...ion filed under section 624.155, such as the one at issue here, are to include the total amount of the claimant's damages, including any amount awarded in the underlying claim in excess of the claimant's policy limits. In the chapter law under which section 626.727(10) was enacted, the Legislature directed that the statute applied retrospectively to 1982, the effective date of section 624.155....

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Boynton v. Allstate Ins. Co., 443 So. 2d 427 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984).

Cited 11 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 11224

...bility policy, because of a provision which excluded coverage when the insured was travelling under military orders. The court said: The sole issue is whether the Hansen vehicle was "an uninsured vehicle" within the meaning of that term as used in F.S. 626.727....

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Moore v. Allstate Ins. Co., 570 So. 2d 291 (Fla. 1990).

Cited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 15 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 593, 1990 Fla. LEXIS 1621, 1990 WL 179074

...UNDER SECTION 627.428(1), FLORIDA STATUTES (1985) TO ONLY THAT PERIOD DURING WHICH COVERAGE WAS AT ISSUE, ALTHOUGH LIABILITY AND DAMAGES CONTINUE TO BE LITIGATED AFTER THE ELIMINATION OF THE COVERAGE ISSUE? Id. at 1370. The district court found that section 626.727(8), Florida Statutes (1985), does limit the fee awardable under section 627.428(1), Florida Statutes (1985), to the coverage issue, concluding that attorney's fees for other issues in the same action are not covered by the statute....

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Coney v. Gen. Ins. Co., 445 So. 2d 671 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 11921

...4th DCA 1977) (statute in effect at time of endorsement which added additional automobile and premium therefor controlled disposition of case, rather than statute effective on date of issuance of the original policy). [2] Until the 1980 amendment to the statute, Section 626.727(1) provided in part: ......

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Am. S. Home Ins. Co. v. Louis Philip Lentini, etc. (Fla. 2019).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...statutory mandates of section 627.727(9). ANALYSIS American Southern contends that section 627.727 does not apply to specialty insurance policies such as the Corvette policy at issue. We disagree. Section 626.727 governs “motor vehicle insurance; uninsured and underinsured vehicle coverage; [and] insolvent insurer protection.” It provides as follows: No motor vehicle liability insurance policy which provides bodily injury li...

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State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Anna Bevilacqua Spangler (11th Cir. 2023).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: Nov 18, 2022

...The UM statute requires, in relevant part, that an insurer who offers motor vehicle liability insurance that covers bodily injury also must provide uninsured motor vehicle coverage, unless the insured expressly rejects UM coverage. Id. § 626.727(1)....

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