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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE
Chapter 627
INSURANCE RATES AND CONTRACTS
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627.7842 Policy exceptions.
(1)(a) If a survey meeting the standards of practice for surveying required by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and certified to the title insurer by a registered Florida surveyor has been completed on the property within 90 days before the date of closing, the title policy may only except from coverage the encroachments, overlays, boundary line disputes, and other matters which are actually shown on the survey.
(b) If at closing the seller signs an affidavit swearing that there is no person in possession of the property or with a claim of possession to the property except the seller, the title policy may not exclude from coverage rights or claims of parties in possession not shown by the public records.
(c) If at closing the seller signs an affidavit swearing that no improvements have been made to the property within the past 90 days for which payment has not been made in full, the title policy may not except from coverage any lien or right to a lien for services, labor, or material furnished which is imposed by law and not shown by the public record.
(2) The title insurer, agent, or agency issuing the title policy may except from coverage the items specified in subsection (1) if the title insurer, agent, or agency has knowledge of facts requiring the exceptions, notwithstanding the survey or affidavits, if the insurer, agent, or agency discloses such facts to the proposed insured.
History.s. 1, ch. 85-20; s. 1, ch. 86-286; ss. 100, 114, ch. 92-318; s. 225, ch. 94-218; s. 17, ch. 99-286; s. 23, ch. 2014-147.

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Sommers v. Smith & Berman, PA, 637 So. 2d 60 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 189632

...ng agent. Since buyers did not allege, in their second amended complaint, that the title insurance company was a closing agent, we see no reason for buyers to be given further opportunity to amend here. Buyers also allege that Chicago Title breached section 627.7842, Florida Statutes (1987), which provides that if a survey is furnished to the title insurer, then the title policy may only except from coverage those encroachments, etc....

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