HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                Bill No. CS/HB 397

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Rayson and Cosgrove offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, between lines 14 & 15 of the bill

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (3) is added to section

18  627.402,Florida Statutes, to read:

19         627.402  Definitions; specified certificates not

20  included.--As used in this part, the term:

21         (3)  "Insurer conduct" means the following actions or

22  inactions of an insurer with respect to a policy form which

23  have resulted in inadequate rates and the need for

24  extraordinary rate increases:

25         (a)  Failure to make a filing in compliance with s.

26  627.410(7) or s. 627.6745(2);

27         (b)  Failure to correct a rate filing when the

28  department presented information to the company at the time

29  the filing was approved that suggested the rates were

30  inadequate and the company did not adequately resolve the

31  department's concerns;

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                Bill No. CS/HB 397

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 1         (c)  Violation of applicable actuarial standards of

 2  practice at the time of a filing;

 3         (d)  Failure to have implemented the underwriting

 4  standards assumed in the pricing assumptions of the form; or

 5         (e)  The use of pricing assumptions that have resulted

 6  in a demonstrated pattern of product underpricing.

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10  And the title is amended as follows:

11         On page 1, line 2

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13  after the semicolon, insert:

14         s. 627.402, F.S., creating a definition for

15         insurer conduct;

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