Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 286
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11 The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Campbell) recommended
12 the following amendment to amendment (025144):
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 8. Subsection (2) of section 877.02, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 877.02 Solicitation of legal services or retainers
21 therefor; penalty.--
22 (2) It shall be unlawful for any person in the employ
23 of or in any capacity attached to any hospital, sanitarium,
24 police department, wrecker service or garage, prison or court,
25 or for a person authorized to furnish bail bonds, an
26 investigator, a photographer investigators, photographers, an
27 insurance or public adjuster, a general or other contractor as
28 defined in s. 489.105, or any other business providing
29 sinkhole remediation services adjusters, to communicate
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Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 286
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1 assisting or abetting such attorney in the solicitation of
2 legal business or the procurement through solicitation of a
3 retainer, written or oral, or any agreement authorizing the
4 attorney to perform or render legal services.
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10 And the title is amended as follows:
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14 amending s. 877.02, F.S.; prohibiting certain
15 contractors from soliciting legal services on
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