Florida chapter 556 pdf

Other Florida insurance carriers have expressed interest in offering coverage to some Gulfstream policyholders and your agent is the best person to assist you with determining your options for coverage. To learn more about the Centauri offer of coverage, contact your agent immediately. You received a Notice because your name appears as a current policyholder on the records of Gulfstream. The Notice was sent to all known current policyholders informing them of the receivership. You received a Notice because our records indicate that you were an agent of Gulfstream.

The Notice was sent to all known agents of record informing them of the receivership. Unearned premiums are covered by the Guaranty Associations and your state's Guaranty Association will be activated to help pay unearned premium refunds for Gulfstream policyholders. Once completed, the information will be sent to the various state Guaranty Associations for the processing and payment of unearned premium. The process will take approximately 30 to 60 days after the policy cancellation date.

This time is required to correctly calculate the unearned premium amounts, transmit the data to the various Guaranty Associations and allow the Guaranty Associations the time necessary to process, print and mail checks. At this time, we ask that you refrain from contacting the Guaranty Associations until the cancellation calculation and submission of the return premium data is completed.

The Department's website, www. The Department will not require Proof of Claim forms from policyholders who have a potential return premium claim in the estate of Gulfstream.

Potential claims include the return premium claims of policyholder claimants who had a policy in force on the date of liquidation and all other return premium claims who the department calculates are due return premium. Policyholders do not need to do anything to file a timely claim for return premium or to have their claim accepted by the Department. A Guaranty Association "GA" is a nonprofit corporation statutorily created to provide a mechanism for the payment of policy related loss claims and unearned premium when an insurance company is liquidated.

Premium refunds will be sent directly to policyholders. It is your responsibility to notify the Department, in writing, if there is a change in your name or mailing address. You can download the appropriate form and instructions from the Receiver's website, www. Pursuant to the Receivership Order and to Section The deadline for filing claims in the Gulfstream receivership is July 28, Agent's commission claims and general creditor claims are not covered by a guaranty association, but may be filed as claims in the receivership estate.

There may not be sufficient assets to pay this priority of claims; however, you must file a Proof of Claim form to have your claim considered. Claims which were not paid will be considered as claims against the estate and processed by the Receiver. If you have any non-claims related questions regarding the receivership, please contact the Department at Consumer. Services myfloridacfo.

The most up to date information is posted on the website. The Department will continue to post information to its website as more information becomes available. You may contact the Department at one of the following: Email - Consumer. PublicRequest myfloridacfo. By mail to the following address:. Florida Department of Financial Services,. Tallahassee, FL The final order of the administrative law judge constitutes final agency action subject to judicial review pursuant to s.

This notification system shall provide the member operators an opportunity to identify and locate their underground facilities. Municipalities, counties, districts, or other local governments may not adopt or enforce ordinances or rules that conflict with this chapter or that prescribe any of the following: 1.

Require operators of underground facilities to obtain permits from local governments in order to identify underground facilities. Require premarking or marking. Specify the types of paint or other marking devices that are used to identify underground facilities.

Require removal of marks. Martin Luther King, Jr. Any such holiday that falls on a Saturday shall be observed on the preceding Friday. Any such holiday that falls on a Sunday shall be observed on the following Monday. For purposes of this act, a liquefied petroleum gas line regulated under chapter is not an underground facility unless such line is subject to the requirements of Title 49 C. Storm drainage systems are not considered underground facilities.

Each operator of an underground facility in this state shall be a member of the corporation and shall use and participate in the system. The corporation shall administer the provisions of this chapter.

The corporation shall exercise its powers through a board of directors established pursuant to this section. The report must include a summary of the reports to the system from the clerks of court, a summary of the damage reporting data received by the system under s. Any person who furnishes or transports materials or services by means of an underground facility in this state shall participate as a member operator of the system. The purpose of the system is to receive notification of planned excavation or demolition activities and to notify member operators of the planned excavation or demolition activities.

The system shall provide a single toll-free telephone number within this state which excavators can use to notify member operators of planned excavation or demolition activities, and the system may also provide additional modes of access at no cost to the user.

The name of the individual who provided notification and the name, address, including the street address, city, state, zip code, and telephone number of her or his employer. The name and telephone number of the representative for the excavator, and a valid electronic address to facilitate a positive response by the system should be provided, if available.

The county, the city or closest city, and the street address or the closest street, road, or intersection to the location where the excavation or demolition is to be performed, and the construction limits of the excavation or demolition. The commencement date and anticipated duration of the excavation or demolition. Whether machinery will be used for the excavation or demolition. The person or entity for whom the work is to be done. The type of work to be done. The approximate depth of the excavation.

Any notification received by the system at any time other than during business hours shall be considered to be received at the beginning of the next business day. In computing the period for which information furnished is valid, the date the notice is provided is not counted, but the last day of the period shall be counted unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, in which event, the period runs until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday.

Such record may be made by means of electronic, mechanical, or any other method of all incoming and outgoing wire and oral communications concerning location requests in compliance with chapter The records shall be kept for 5 years and, upon written request, shall be available to the excavator making the request, the member operator intended to receive the request, and their agents.

However, custody of the records may not be transferred from the system except under subpoena. If the member operator is unable to respond within such time, the member operator shall communicate with the person making the request and negotiate a new schedule and time that is agreeable to, and should not unreasonably delay, the excavator.

The protection requires hand digging, pot holing, soft digging, vacuum excavation methods, or other similar procedures to identify underground facilities.

Any use of mechanized equipment within the tolerance zone must be supervised by the excavator. If a member operator has not located and marked its underground facilities within the time allowed for marking set forth in paragraphs 5 a and b , the excavator may proceed with the excavation, if the excavator does so with reasonable care and if detection equipment or other acceptable means to locate underground facilities are used.

An excavator is not liable for any damage to an underground facility under the exemption in this subsection if the excavation or demolition is performed with reasonable care and detection equipment or other acceptable means to locate underground facilities are used. The member operator is relieved of responsibility for compliance under the law during the period that the extraordinary circumstances exist and shall promptly notify the system when the extraordinary circumstances cease to exist.

The system is exempt from any requirement to initiate a positive response to an excavator when an excavator does not provide a valid electronic address to facilitate a positive response by the system. If an excavator knows that an existing underground facility of a member operator is in the area, the excavator must contact the member operator if the facility is not marked and a positive response has not been received by the system. If contact with or damage to an underground pipe or any other underground facility results in the escape of any natural gas or other hazardous substance or material regulated by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, the excavator must immediately report the contact or damage by calling the emergency telephone number.

Upon receiving notice, the member operator shall send personnel to the location as soon as possible to effect temporary or permanent repair of the contact or damage. Until such time as the contact or damage has been repaired, the excavator shall cease excavation or demolition activities that may cause further damage to such underground facility. Reports must be submitted annually to the system, no later than March 31 for the prior calendar year, or more frequently at the option and sole discretion of the member operator.

Each report must describe, if known, the cause, nature, and location of the damage. The system shall establish and maintain a process to facilitate submission of reports by member operators. Any costs or expenses associated with compliance by a member operator with the requirements in this section applicable to member operators shall not be charged to any excavator.

No person shall charge the costs or expenses prohibited by this subsection after the effective date of this act. This subsection shall not excuse a member operator or excavator from liability for any damage or injury for which it would be responsible under applicable law.

The person, if found liable, is liable for the total sum of the losses to all member operators involved as those costs are normally computed. The system is not liable for the failure of a member operator to comply with the requirements of this chapter. Section