Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 328
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             05/03/2011 03:35 PM       .                                
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       Senator Margolis moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 141 and 142
    4  insert:
    5         Section 6. Section 624.423, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         624.423 Serving process.—
    8         (1) Service of process upon the Chief Financial Officer as
    9  process agent of the insurer (under s. 624.422) shall be made by
   10  serving a copy copies in triplicate of the process upon the
   11  Chief Financial Officer or upon her or his assistant, deputy, or
   12  other person in charge of her or his office. Upon receiving such
   13  service, the Chief Financial Officer shall retain a record of
   14  the process file one copy in her or his office, return one copy
   15  with her or his admission of service, and promptly forward one
   16  copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the
   17  person last designated by the insurer to receive the same, as
   18  provided under s. 624.422(2).
   19         (2) Where process is served upon the Chief Financial
   20  Officer as an insurer’s process agent, the insurer shall not be
   21  required to answer or plead except within 20 days after the date
   22  upon which the Chief Financial Officer mailed a copy of the
   23  process served upon her or him as required by subsection (1).
   24         (3) Process served upon the Chief Financial Officer and
   25  copy thereof forwarded as in this section provided shall for all
   26  purposes constitute valid and binding service thereof upon the
   27  insurer.
   28         (4) For purposes of this section, records may be retained
   29  in a paper copy or an electronic copy.
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   31  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   32         And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Between lines 30 and 31
   34  insert:
   35         amending s. 624.423, F.S.; reducing the number of
   36         copies of a process that must be served on the Chief
   37         Financial Officer as the agent of an insurer;