Florida Statute 626.911 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

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Title XXXVII
INSURANCE

Chapter 626
INSURANCE FIELD REPRESENTATIVES AND OPERATIONS

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626.911 Attorney’s fee.—In any action against an unauthorized foreign insurer, alien insurer, or person representing or aiding such an insurer, upon a contract of insurance issued or delivered in this state to a resident thereof or to a corporation authorized to do business therein, if the insurer or person representing or aiding such insurer has failed for 30 days after demand prior to the commencement of the action to make payment in accordance with the terms of the contract, the trial judge shall allow to the plaintiff a reasonable attorney’s fee or compensation and include such fee or compensation in any judgment that may be rendered in such action.

History.—s. 350, ch. 59-205; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 318, 807, ch. 82-243; ss. 160, 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

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Chacin v. Generali Assicurazioni Generali Spa, 655 So. 2d 1162 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 4639, 1995 WL 253963

..., F.S. 1965, F.S.A. [now § 626.912, Fla. Stat. (1993)]. Appellants [sic] argument is that an attorney's fee is allowed in an action against an unauthorized foreign insurer only under the provisions *1163 of Section 626.0508, F.S. 1965, F.S.A., [now § 626.911, Fla....

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Cincinnati Equitable Ins. Co. v. Hawit, 933 So. 2d 1233 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 11952, 2006 WL 1999408

...insurance policy for the inaccurate and incomplete information in the application or for the failure to comply with the ten-day notice requirement in the policy. *1235 It also found that Amedex, whose agent personally sold Hawit her policy, violated section 626.911, Florida Statutes....