Florida Senate Bill 1224 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring that before bringing a common-law bad faith action against an insurer, the party bringing the action must first provide to the Department of Financial Services and the insurer prior written notification of a specified number of days; requiring that a notice relating to the bringing of a common-law claim of bad faith must specify the common-law duty violated by the insurer; requiring a notice to specify the amount of moneys that an insurer has failed to tender or pay if the specific statutory or common-law-based violation includes such failure; providing that the applicable statute of limitations is tolled for a specified period of time when certain notices alleging a common-law-based violation are mailed, etc.

Civil Remedies Against Insurers

Sen. Steve Oelrich [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Judiciary
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 98
2012-01-10		Referred to Judiciary; Banking and Insurance; Budget -SJ 98
2011-12-08		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
624	155		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1224
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1224/BillText/Filed/HTML