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Fla. Stat. § 626.951

Declaration of purpose

Known as the Unauthorized Insurers Process Law

The act spans §§ 626.011 to 626.9958 (368 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 927 F. Supp. 2d 870 - Negrete v. Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America (2013)

Most recently applied in 187 F. Supp. 3d 1348 - Kondell v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. (May 2016)

History.--s. 379, ch. 59-205; s. 9, ch. 76-260; s. 807, ch. 82-243; ss. 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

How often courts cite this section

2013201610
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) The purpose of this part is to regulate trade practices relating to the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of Congress as expressed in the Act of Congress of March 9, 1945 (Pub. L. No. 15, 79th Congress), by defining, or providing for the determination of, all such practices in this state which constitute unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices and by prohibiting the trade practices so defined or determined.

(2) This part shall be entitled the “Unfair Insurance Trade Practices Act.”

Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.