The Florida Senate

624.6065  "Fidelity insurance" defined.--For the purposes of part XX of chapter 627, the term "fidelity insurance" means:

(1)  Insurance guaranteeing the fidelity of persons holding positions of public or private trust, or indemnifying banks, thrifts, brokers, or other financial institutions against loss of money, securities, negotiable instruments, other specified valuable papers, or tangible items of personal property caused by larceny, misplacement, destruction, or other stated perils, including loss while being transported in an armored motor vehicle or by messenger and including insurance for loss caused by the forgery of signatures on, or alteration of, specified documents and valuable papers.

(2)  Insurance against losses that financial institutions become legally obligated to pay by reason of loss of customers' property from safe-deposit boxes.

History.--ss. 4, 7, ch. 88-87; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 2, ch. 91-110; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 18, ch. 95-211.