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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE
Chapter 627
INSURANCE RATES AND CONTRACTS
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F.S. 627.840
627.840 Limitation on service and other charges.—
(1) A premium finance company shall not charge, contract for, receive, or collect a service charge other than as permitted by this part.
(2) A premium finance company may, in a premium finance agreement, contract for, charge, receive, and collect a service charge for financing the premiums under the agreement computed as provided in subsection (3).
(3)(a) The service charge provided for in this section shall be computed on the balance of the premiums due, after subtracting the down payment made by the insured in accordance with the premium finance agreement, from the effective date of the insurance coverage for which the premiums are being advanced to and including the date when the final payment of the premium finance agreement is payable.
(b) The service charge shall be a maximum of $12 per $100 per year plus an additional charge not exceeding $20, which additional charge need not be refunded upon prepayment. Such additional charge may be charged only once in a 12-month period for any one customer unless that customer’s policy has been canceled due to nonpayment within the immediately preceding 12-month period. However, any insured may prepay her or his premium finance agreement in full at any time before the due date of the final payment; and in such event the unearned service charge shall be refunded in accordance with the “Rule of 78ths,” or any other method at least as beneficial to the insured and approved by the office, and shall represent at least as great a proportion of the service charge, if any, as the sum of the periodic balances after the month in which prepayment is made bears to the sum of all periodic balances under the schedule of payments in the agreement. When the amount of the refund is less than $1, no refund need be made if the agreement so states.
(c) Such service charge shall be inclusive of all charges incident to the premium finance agreement and for the extension of credit provided for therein.
(d) Paragraphs (a)-(c) apply if the premiums under only one insurance contract are advanced or to be advanced under a premium finance agreement; if premiums under more than one insurance contract are advanced or to be advanced under a premium finance agreement, the service charge shall be computed from the inception date of such insurance contracts, or from the due date of such premiums; however, not more than one minimum service charge shall apply to each premium finance agreement.
(e) No insurance agent or premium finance company shall induce an insured to become obligated under more than one premium finance agreement for the purpose of obtaining more than one minimum service charge.
History.—s. 1, ch. 63-16; s. 1, ch. 69-224; s. 1, ch. 76-126; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 3, 4, 6, ch. 80-363; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 604, 612, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; s. 114, ch. 92-318; s. 368, ch. 97-102; s. 1222, ch. 2003-261.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 627.840
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 627.840.

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Cases Citing Statute 627.840

Total Results: 4

Soper v. Tire Kingdom, Inc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2013-01-24T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 124 So. 3d 804, 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 37, 2013 WL 264441, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 89

Snippet: proof that Safeway “knowingly” violated section 627.840(3)(b), Florida Statutes (2003), he did not need…the class members in contravention of sections 627.840 and 627.885. Id. at 107. Thus, the majority concluded

Sosa v. SAFEWAY PREMIUM FINANCE CO.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2011-07-07T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 73 So. 3d 91, 36 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 373, 2011 Fla. LEXIS 1574, 2011 WL 2659854

Snippet: service charge. See id. § 627.840(3)(a). For example, under section 627.840(3)(b), a premium finance company…quot; violates section 627.840(3)(b). See § 627.835. The purpose of section 627.840(3)(b) is to regulate…Company ("Safeway") violated sections 627.840(3)(b) and 627.835, Florida Statutes (2003), by …financing the premiums under the agreement." § 627.840(2), Fla. Stat. (2010). An "additional service…additional charge was permissible under section 627.840(3)(b) due to the insured's nonpayment. If

SAFEWAY PREMIUM FINANCE CO. v. Sosa

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2009-04-08T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 15 So. 3d 8, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 2876, 2009 WL 928434

Snippet: Certification alleges that Safeway violated section 627.840(3)(b), Florida Statutes (2002), by overcharging…charge of twenty dollars, provided for in section 627.840(3)(b), Florida Statutes (2002). Sosa renewed his…charge of twenty dollars. He claims that section 627.840(3)(b) does not allow for more than one twenty-dollar… constituted a violation by Safeway of section 627.840(3)(b). He alleges that Safeway has made the same…error- and denies any knowing violation. Section 627.840(3)(b), Florida Statutes (2002) allows a premium

Smith v. Foremost Ins. Co.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2004-09-10T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 884 So. 2d 341

Snippet: one-half of the additional charge provided in s. 627.840 [which allows a $20 maximum "additional charge