2000 Florida Code
TITLE XXXVII INSURANCE
Chapter 626 Insurance Field Representatives And Operations
PART II GENERAL LINES AGENTS AND SOLICITORS (ss. 626.726-626.754)
626.738 Solicitor's powers; agent's or agency's responsibility.
626.738 Solicitor's powers; agent's or agency's responsibility.--
(1) A solicitor's license and appointment shall not cover any kind of insurance for which the agent or agency by whom he or she is appointed is not then licensed and appointed.
(2) A solicitor, as such, shall not have power to bind an insurer upon or with reference to any risk or insurance contract or to countersign his or her name to insurance contracts.
(3) All business transacted by a solicitor under his or her license and appointment shall be in the name of the agent or agency by whom he or she is appointed, and the agent or agency shall be responsible for all acts of the solicitor within the scope of such appointment.
History.--s. 262, ch. 59-205; s. 21, ch. 71-86; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 3, ch. 81-282; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 226, 241, 807, 810, ch. 82-243; ss. 77, 206, 207, ch. 90-363; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 248, ch. 97-102.
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