Florida Statute 626.9611 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE

Chapter 626
INSURANCE FIELD REPRESENTATIVES AND OPERATIONS

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626.9611 Rules.—

(1) The department or commission may, in accordance with chapter 120, adopt reasonable rules as are necessary or proper to identify specific methods of competition or acts or practices which are prohibited by s. 626.9541 or s. 626.9551, but the rules shall not enlarge upon or extend the provisions of ss. 626.9541 and 626.9551.

(2) The department and the commission shall, in accordance with chapter 120, adopt rules to protect members of the United States Armed Forces from dishonest or predatory insurance sales practices by insurers and insurance agents. The rules shall identify specific false, misleading, deceptive, or unfair methods of competition, acts, or practices which are prohibited by s. 626.9541 or s. 626.9551. The rules shall be based upon model rules or model laws adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners which identify certain insurance practices involving the solicitation or sale of insurance and annuities to members of the United States Armed Forces which are false, misleading, deceptive, or unfair.

History.—s. 9, ch. 76-260; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 807, ch. 82-243; ss. 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 1036, ch. 2003-261; s. 10, ch. 2007-199.

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State, Dept. of Ins. v. Ins. Servs. Off., 434 So. 2d 908 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).

Cited 18 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...Pan American Construction Co., 338 So.2d 1291, 1293 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976); DeThorne v. Beck, 280 So.2d 448, 449 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973); and Florida Growers Coop Transport v. Department of Revenue, 273 So.2d 142, 144 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973). The next statute cited in the rule provides more guidance. Section 626.9611, Florida Statutes (1979), provides in part that in promulgating rules identifying specific practices which are prohibited by Section 626.9541, Florida Statutes (1979) (which defines unfair methods of competition and unfair or decepti...

...arbitrary territorial boundaries which are unfairly discriminatory. This rule was not challenged in this proceeding and therefore will not be addressed. [4] Rule 4-43.03 refers to rulemaking authority of the Department under Sections 624.308(1) and 626.9611, Florida Statutes (1979); and as the laws being implemented Sections 626.9541(15)(h), 627.031(1)(a), 627.062(1), and 627.0651, Florida Statutes (1979)....

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