Florida Statutes
Part I - Insurance Representatives: Licensing Procedures and General Requirements (Ss. 626.011-626.711)
626.292 - Transfer of license from another state.


(1) An individual licensed in good standing in another state may apply to the department to have the license transferred to this state to obtain a resident agent or all-lines adjuster license for the same lines of authority covered by the license in the other state.
(2) To qualify for a license transfer, an individual applicant must meet the following requirements:
(a) The individual must become a resident of this state.
(b) The individual must have been licensed in another state for a minimum of 1 year immediately preceding the date the individual became a resident of this state.
(c) The individual must submit a completed application for this state which is received by the department within 90 days after the date the individual became a resident of this state, along with payment of the applicable fees set forth in s. 624.501 and submission of the following documents:
1. A certification issued by the appropriate official of the applicant’s home state identifying the type of license and lines of authority under the license and stating that, at the time the license from the home state was canceled, the applicant was in good standing in that state or that the state’s Producer Database records, maintained by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, its affiliates, or subsidiaries, indicate that the agent or all-lines adjuster is or was licensed in good standing for the line of authority requested.
2. A set of the applicant’s fingerprints in accordance with s. 626.171(4).

(d) The individual must satisfy prelicensing education requirements in this state, unless the completion of prelicensing education requirements was a prerequisite for licensure in the other state and the prelicensing education requirements in the other state are substantially equivalent to the prelicensing requirements of this state as determined by the department. This paragraph does not apply to all-lines adjusters.
(e) The individual must satisfy the examination requirement under s. 626.221, unless exempted.

(3) An applicant satisfying the requirements for a license transfer under subsection (2) shall be approved for licensure in this state unless the department finds that grounds exist under s. 626.611 or s. 626.621 for refusal, suspension, or revocation of a license.
History.—s. 14, ch. 2002-206; s. 929, ch. 2003-261; s. 12, ch. 2005-257; s. 12, ch. 2012-209.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XXXVII - Insurance

Chapter 626 - Insurance Field Representatives and Operations

Part I - Insurance Representatives: Licensing Procedures and General Requirements (Ss. 626.011-626.711)

626.011 - Short title.

626.015 - Definitions.

626.016 - Powers and duties of department, commission, and office.

626.022 - Scope of part.

626.025 - Consumer protections.

626.0428 - Agency personnel powers, duties, and limitations.

626.112 - License and appointment required; agents, customer representatives, adjusters, insurance agencies, service representatives, managing general agents, insurance adjusting firms.

626.141 - Violation not to affect validity of insurance.

626.161 - Licensing forms.

626.171 - Application for license as an agent, customer representative, adjuster, service representative, or reinsurance intermediary.

626.172 - Application for insurance agency license.

626.173 - Insurance agency closure; cancellation of licenses.

626.175 - Temporary licensing.

626.181 - Number of applications for licensure required.

626.191 - Repeated applications.

626.201 - Investigation.

626.202 - Fingerprinting requirements.

626.207 - Disqualification of applicants and licensees; penalties against licensees; rulemaking authority.

626.211 - Approval, disapproval of application.

626.221 - Examination requirement; exemptions.

626.231 - Eligibility; application for examination.

626.241 - Scope of examination.

626.2415 - Annual report of results of life insurance examinations.

626.251 - Time and place of examination; notice.

626.261 - Conduct of examination.

626.266 - Printing of examinations or related materials to preserve examination security.

626.271 - Examination fee; determination, refund.

626.281 - Reexamination.

626.2815 - Continuing education requirements.

626.2816 - Regulation of continuing education for licensees, course providers, instructors, school officials, and monitor groups.

626.2817 - Regulation of course providers, instructors, and school officials involved in prelicensure education for insurance agents and other licensees.

626.291 - Examination results; denial, issuance of license.

626.292 - Transfer of license from another state.

626.301 - Form and contents of licenses, in general.

626.311 - Scope of license.

626.321 - Limited licenses and registration.

626.322 - License, appointment; certain military installations.

626.331 - Number of appointments permitted or required.

626.341 - Additional appointments; general lines, life, and health agents.

626.342 - Furnishing supplies to unlicensed agent prohibited; civil liability.

626.371 - Payment of fees, taxes for appointment period without appointment.

626.381 - Renewal, continuation, reinstatement, or termination of appointment.

626.382 - Continuation, expiration of license; insurance agencies.

626.431 - Effect of expiration of license and appointment.

626.441 - License or appointment; transferability.

626.451 - Appointment of agent or other representative.

626.461 - Continuation of appointment of agent or other representative.

626.471 - Termination of appointment.

626.511 - Reasons for termination; confidential information.

626.536 - Reporting of administrative actions.

626.541 - Firm, corporate, and business names; officers; associates; notice of changes.

626.551 - Notice of change of address, name.

626.561 - Reporting and accounting for funds.

626.571 - Delinquent agencies; notice of trusteeship.

626.5715 - Parity of regulation of insurance agents and agencies.

626.572 - Rebating; when allowed.

626.581 - Commissions contingent upon adjustment savings; prohibition.

626.591 - Penalty for violation of s. 626.581.

626.593 - Insurance agent; written contract for compensation.

626.601 - Improper conduct; inquiry; fingerprinting.

626.602 - Insurance agency names; disapproval.

626.611 - Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, title agency’s, adjuster’s, customer representative’s, service representative’s, or managing general agent’s license or appointment.

626.6115 - Grounds for compulsory refusal, suspension, or revocation of insurance agency license.

626.621 - Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of agent’s, adjuster’s, customer representative’s, service representative’s, or managing general agent’s license or appointment.

626.6215 - Grounds for discretionary refusal, suspension, or revocation of insurance agency license.

626.631 - Procedure for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license.

626.641 - Duration of suspension or revocation.

626.651 - Effect of suspension, revocation upon associated licenses and appointments and licensees and appointees.

626.6515 - Effect of suspension or revocation upon associated agencies.

626.661 - Surrender of license.

626.681 - Administrative fine in lieu of or in addition to suspension, revocation, or refusal of license, appointment, or disapproval.

626.691 - Probation.

626.692 - Restitution.

626.711 - Retaliatory provision, agents.