Florida Statutes Part V - Title Insurance Agents (Ss. 626.841-626.8473)
- 626.841 - Definitions.
The term:(1) “Title insurance agent” means a person appointed in writing by a title insurer to issue and countersign commitments or policies of title insurance in...
- 626.8411 - Application Of Florida Insurance Code Provisions To Title Insurance Agents Or Agencies.
(1) The following provisions applicable to general lines agents or agencies also apply to title insurance agents or agencies:(a) Section 626.734, relating to liability of certain agents.(b) Section...
- 626.8412 - License And Appointments Required.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this part:(a) Title insurance may be sold only by a licensed and appointed title insurance agent employed by a licensed and...
- 626.8413 - Title Insurance Agents; Certain Names Prohibited.
After October 1, 2014, a title insurance agent or title insurance agency may not adopt a name that contains the words “title insurance,” “title company,”...
- 626.8414 - Qualifications For Examination.
The department must authorize any natural person to take the examination for the issuance of a license as a title insurance agent if the person...
- 626.8417 - Title Insurance Agent Licensure; Exemptions.
(1) A person may not act as a title insurance agent until a valid title insurance agent’s license has been issued to that person by the...
- 626.8418 - Application For Title Insurance Agency License.
Before doing business in this state as a title insurance agency, the applicant must file with the department an application for a license as a...
- 626.8419 - Appointment Of Title Insurance Agency.
(1) The title insurer engaging or employing the title insurance agency must file with the department, on forms furnished by the department, an application certifying that...
- 626.84195 - Confidentiality Of Information Supplied By Title Insurance Agencies And Insurers.
(1) As used in this section, the term “proprietary business information” means information that:(a) Is owned or controlled by a title insurance agency or insurer requesting confidentiality...
- 626.842 - Credit And Character Reports.
(1) As to each person appointed as title insurance agent for the first time in this state, the appointing insurer shall, coincidentally with such appointment, secure...
- 626.84201 - Nonresident Title Insurance Agents.
Notwithstanding s. 626.8414(2), the department, upon application and payment of the fees specified in s. 624.501, may issue a license as a nonresident title insurance...
- 626.8421 - Number Of Appointments Permitted Or Required.
A title agent shall be required to have a separate appointment as to each insurer by which he or she is appointed as agent. As...
- 626.8423 - Investigation Of Applicants For License Or Renewal Or Continuation.
The department may propound reasonable interrogatories, in addition to those contained in the application, to any applicant for a title insurance agent’s license or appointment...
- 626.8427 - Number Of Applications For Licensure Required; Exemption; Effect Of Expiration Of License.
(1) After a license as a title insurance agent has been issued to a title insurance agent, the agent is not required to file another license...
- 626.843 - Renewal, Continuation, Reinstatement, Termination Of Title Insurance Agent’s Appointment.
(1) The appointment of a title insurance agent shall continue in force until suspended, revoked, or otherwise terminated, but subject to a renewed request filed by...
- 626.8433 - Filing Of Reasons For Terminating Appointment Of Title Insurance Agent; Confidential Information.
(1) Any title insurer that is terminating the appointment of a title insurance agent, whether such termination is by direct action of the appointing title insurer...
- 626.8437 - Grounds For Denial, Suspension, Revocation, Or Refusal To Renew License Or Appointment.
The department shall deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew or continue the license or appointment of any title insurance agent or agency, and it...
- 626.844 - Grounds For Discretionary Refusal, Suspension, Or Revocation Of License Or Appointment.
The department may, in its discretion, deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew or continue the license or appointment of any title insurance agent or...
- 626.8443 - Duration Of Suspension Or Revocation.
(1) The department shall, in its order suspending a title insurance agent’s or agency’s license or appointment or in its order suspending the eligibility of a...
- 626.8447 - Effect Of Suspension Or Revocation Upon Other Licensees, Appointees.
In case of the suspension or revocation of the license and appointment of any title insurance agent, the licenses and appointments of all other title...
- 626.845 - Cancellation Of License.
All certificates of licenses issued under this act are at all times the property of the state; and, upon notice by the department to the...
- 626.8453 - Penalty For Violation.
A person who knowingly makes a false or otherwise fraudulent application for a license or appointment under this act, or who knowingly violates any provision...
- 626.8457 - Administrative Fine In Lieu Of Suspension Or Revocation Of License Or Appointment.
(1) If the department finds that one or more grounds exist for the suspension of, revocation of, or refusal to renew or continue any license or...
- 626.846 - Probation.
(1) If the department finds that one or more grounds exist for the suspension of, revocation of, or refusal to renew or continue any license or...
- 626.8463 - Witnesses And Evidence.
(1) As to the subject of any examination, investigation, or hearing being conducted by him or her under s. 624.5015, ss. 626.8417-626.847, or s. 627.791, an...
- 626.8467 - Testimony Compelled; Immunity From Prosecution.
(1) If a person asks to be excused from attending or testifying or from producing any books, papers, records, contracts, documents, or other evidence in connection...
- 626.847 - Penalty For Refusal To Testify.
A person who refuses or fails, without lawful cause, to testify relative to the affairs of any title insurer or other person when subpoenaed under...
- 626.8473 - Escrow; Trust Fund.
(1) A title insurance agent may engage in business as an escrow agent as to funds received from others to be subsequently disbursed by the title...
Last modified: September 23, 2016