Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 624.603 (2025)
“Health insurance” defined.
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624.603 “Health insurance” defined.—“Health insurance,” also known as “disability insurance,” is insurance of human beings against bodily injury, disablement, or death by accident or accidental means, or the expense thereof, or against disablement or expense resulting from sickness, and every insurance appertaining thereto. Health insurance does not include workers’ compensation coverages, except as provided in s. 624.406(4).
History.—s. 101, ch. 59-205; s. 1, ch. 65-10; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 83, ch. 79-40; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 78(2nd), 86, 809(1st), ch. 82-243; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 9, ch. 2003-267.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1974–1998 · leading case: Crown Life Ins. Co. v. Garcia, 424 So. 2d 893 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982).
Crown Life Ins. Co. v. Garcia, 424 So. 2d 893 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982). “[4] Section 624.603, Florida Statutes (1981) unequivocally states: `Disability insurance' defined.”
Liberty Care Plan v. Dep't of Ins., 710 So. 2d 202 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998). “02, Florida Statutes (1995), defines “insurance” as “a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify another or pay or allow a specified amount or a determinable benefit upon determinable contingencies” and that section 624.”
Fuller v. Order of United Com. Travelers of Am., 295 So. 2d 683 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974). “Appellant contends that the certificate or policy of insurance is a policy of “disability insurance” as defined by Section 624.603, Florida Statutes, F.S.A.”
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