(1)(a) Any transfer of, or lien upon, the property of an insurer or affiliate which is made or created within 4 months prior to the commencement of any delinquency proceeding under this chapter which gives any creditor of the insurer a preference or enables the creditor to obtain a greater percentage of her or his debt than any other creditor of the same class shall be voidable.
(b) Any transfer of, or lien upon, the property of an insurer or affiliate which is made or created between 4 months and 1 year prior to the commencement of any delinquency proceeding under this chapter is void if such transfer or lien inured to the benefit of a director, officer, employee, stockholder, member, subscriber, affiliate, managing general agent, or insider or any relative of any director, officer, employee, stockholder, member, subscriber, affiliate, managing general agent, or insider.
(2) Every director, officer, employee, stockholder, member, subscriber, and any other person acting on behalf of such insurer who shall be concerned in any such act or deed and every person receiving thereby any property of such insurer or affiliate or the benefit thereof shall be personally liable therefor and shall be bound to account to the department.
(3) The department as receiver in any proceeding under this chapter may avoid any transfer of, or lien upon, the property of an insurer which any creditor, stockholder, subscriber, or member of such insurer or affiliate might have avoided and may recover the property so transferred unless such person was a bona fide holder for value prior to the date of commencement of a delinquency proceeding under this chapter. Such property or its value may be recovered from anyone who has received it except a bona fide holder for value as herein specified.
(4) For purposes of this section, a transfer is not made or created until the insurer or affiliate has acquired rights in the property transferred.
History.—s. 742, ch. 59-205; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 809(1st), ch. 82-243; s. 11, ch. 89-360; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 403, ch. 97-102; s. 34, ch. 2004-374.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 631 - Insurer Insolvency; Guaranty of Payment
Part I - Insurer Insolvency: Rehabilitation and Liquidation (Ss. 631.001-631.401)
631.001 - Title, construction, and purpose.
631.015 - Reciprocity; treatment of policyholders.
631.025 - Persons subject to this part.
631.031 - Initiation and commencement of delinquency proceeding.
631.041 - Automatic stay; relief from stay; injunctions.
631.051 - Grounds for rehabilitation; domestic insurers.
631.0515 - Appointment of receiver; insurance holding company.
631.061 - Grounds for liquidation.
631.071 - Grounds for conservation; foreign insurers.
631.081 - Grounds for conservation; alien insurers.
631.091 - Grounds for ancillary liquidation; foreign insurers.
631.101 - Order of rehabilitation; termination.
631.111 - Order of liquidation; domestic insurers.
631.112 - Subordination of claims for noncooperation.
631.121 - Order of liquidation; alien insurers.
631.131 - Order of conservation or ancillary liquidation of foreign or alien insurers.
631.141 - Conduct of delinquency proceeding; domestic and alien insurers.
631.152 - Conduct of delinquency proceeding; foreign insurers.
631.1521 - Actions by and against the receiver.
631.1522 - Unrecorded obligations and defenses and claims of affiliates.
631.153 - Intervention; exclusiveness of claims procedure.
631.154 - Funds, assets, or other property in the possession of third person.
631.155 - Agents’ balances; premiums and unearned commissions.
631.156 - Investigation by the department; scope of authority; sharing of materials.
631.157 - Civil action by the receiver.
631.161 - Claims of nonresidents against insurers domiciled in this state.
631.171 - Claims of residents against insurers domiciled in reciprocal states.
631.181 - Filing and proof of claim.
631.182 - Receiver claims report and claimants objections procedure.
631.192 - Allowance of certain claims.
631.195 - Records of insurers; public records exemptions.
631.201 - Attachment and garnishment of assets.
631.205 - Reinsurance proceeds.
631.221 - Deposit of moneys collected.
631.231 - Exemption from fees.
631.241 - Borrowing on pledge of assets.
631.251 - Date rights fixed on liquidation.
631.252 - Continuation of coverage.
631.262 - Transfers prior to petition.
631.263 - Transfers after petition.
631.2715 - Liability under federal priority of claims law.
631.311 - Report and petition for assessment.
631.321 - Order and levy of assessment.
631.331 - Assessment prima facie correct; notice; payment; proceeding to collect.
631.341 - Notice of insolvency to policyholders by insurer, general agent, or agent.
631.361 - Seizure under court order.
631.371 - Seizure under order of the department.
631.391 - Cooperation of officers and employees.
631.3915 - Actions for damages.
631.395 - Guaranty fund; orders of court.
631.397 - Use of certain marshaled assets.
631.398 - Prevention of insolvencies.
631.399 - Receiver’s right to recover distributions made to affiliate.
631.400 - Rehabilitation of title insurer.
631.401 - Recovery of assessments and assumed policy obligations.