Florida Statute 627.652 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE

Chapter 627
INSURANCE RATES AND CONTRACTS

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627.652 Group health insurance; definitions.—As used in this part:

(1) Group health insurance is that form of health insurance covering groups of persons under a master group health insurance policy issued to any one of the groups listed in ss. 627.653-627.656.

(2)(a) The terms “policy,” “insurance policy,” “health insurance policy,” “group health policy,” and “group health insurance policy” include plans of self-insurance providing health insurance benefits.

(b) The terms “amount of insurance” and “insurance” include the benefits provided under a plan of self-insurance.

History.—s. 585, ch. 59-205; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 500, 523, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; s. 114, ch. 92-318.

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Florida Auto. Dealers Indus. v. Small, 592 So. 2d 1179 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992).

Cited 10 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1992 WL 12798

...denied, 315 So.2d 469 (Fla. 1975). None of these cases, however, involves a construction of section 627.6698. Without deciding whether section 627.428 applies to self-insurers, we conclude that section 627.6698 does do so, pursuant to the definitional provision in Section 627.652, Florida Statutes (1989), which states in part: As used in this part: * * * * * * (2)(c) The term "insurer" includes any person or governmental unit providing a plan of self-insurance....

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