| HOUSE AMENDMENT | 
                             
                            
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                CHAMBER ACTION | 
              
              
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											Representative Negron offered the following: | 
              
              
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											Amendment (with title amendment) | 
              
              
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											Remove line(s) 1723-1746, and insert: | 
              
              
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												(7)(a)The provisions of this section shall also apply as | 
              
              
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									to any insurer or adjusting firm or its agents or | 
              
              
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									representatives who, with intent, injure, defraud, or deceive | 
              
              
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									any claimant with regard to any claim.  The claimant shall have | 
              
              
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									the right to recover the damages provided in this section. | 
              
              
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											(b)  An insurer, or any person acting at the direction of  | 
              
              
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									or on behalf of an insurer, may not change an opinion in a  | 
              
              
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									mental or physical report prepared under s. 627.736(7) or direct  | 
              
              
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									the physician preparing the report to change such opinion;  | 
              
              
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									however, this provision does not preclude the insurer from  | 
              
              
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									calling to the attention of the physician errors of fact in the  | 
              
              
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									report based upon information in the claim file. | 
              
              
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											================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================= | 
              
              
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											817.234, F.S.; |