The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XIX
PUBLIC BUSINESS

Chapter 284
STATE RISK MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY PROGRAMS

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F.S. 284.31

284.31 Scope and types of coverages; separate accounts.—The Insurance Risk Management Trust Fund must, unless specifically excluded by the Department of Financial Services, cover all departments of the State of Florida and their employees, agents, and volunteers and must provide separate accounts for workers’ compensation, general liability, fleet automotive liability, federal civil rights actions under 42 U.S.C. s. 1983 or similar federal statutes, state agency firefighter cancer benefits payable under s. 112.1816(2), and court-awarded attorney fees in other proceedings against the state except for such awards in eminent domain or for inverse condemnation or for awards by the Public Employees Relations Commission. Unless specifically excluded by the Department of Financial Services, the Insurance Risk Management Trust Fund must provide fleet automotive liability coverage to motor vehicles titled to the state, or to any department of the state, when such motor vehicles are used by community transportation coordinators performing, under contract to the appropriate department of the state, services for the transportation disadvantaged under part I of chapter 427. Such fleet automotive liability coverage is primary and is subject to s. 768.28 and parts II and III of chapter 284, and applicable rules adopted thereunder, and the terms and conditions of the certificate of coverage issued by the Department of Financial Services.

History.—s. 1, ch. 72-206; s. 4, ch. 74-235; s. 68, ch. 79-40; s. 6, ch. 79-139; s. 3, ch. 83-159; s. 78, ch. 86-163; s. 1, ch. 88-239; s. 53, ch. 99-13; s. 317, ch. 2003-261; s. 3, ch. 2021-113.

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Amendments to 284.31

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 284.31

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 284.31.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

L. J. JOHNSON, v. L. JARVIS, Jr., 107 So. 3d 428 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2012)

. . . In the order, the trial court found that the term “attorney’s fees” as used in sections 284.30 and 284.31 . . .

ZABRISKIE, v. COURT ADMINISTRATION, FL, FL, FL FL,, 172 F. App'x 906 (11th Cir. 2006)

. . . . § 284.31. As we stated, under Florida law, the judicial branch is a state agency. . . .

I. GAMBLE, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES,, 779 F.2d 1509 (11th Cir. 1986)

. . . . § 284.31 (emphasis added). . . . Section 284.31, quoted above, merely reiterates the insurance coverage in federal civil rights actions . . . however, the fund is authorized to pay all other court-ordered attorney’s fees as provided under s. 284.31 . . .

MEEKER a k a v. R. E. ADDISON a, 586 F. Supp. 216 (S.D. Fla. 1983)

. . . Section 284.31, which details the coverage provided to the state’s various departments and agencies under . . . These sections, 284.31 and 284.38, Florida Statutes, specifically abrogate the usual monetary limitations . . . In the case at bar, however, Fla.Stat. §§ 284.31, 111.07 and 111.071 are of central importance because . . . Fla.Stat. § 284.31 similarly provides for a separate insurance account for “federal civil rights actions . . .

B. SHINHOLSTER, v. GRAHAM,, 527 F. Supp. 1318 (N.D. Fla. 1981)

. . . Jan. 30, 1981), Judge Stafford stated: Upon careful consideration of Sections 768.28, 284.30, 284.31 . . . Additionally, Section 284.31 states: The Insurance Risk Management Trust Fund shall, unless specifically . . . Fla.Stat. § 284.31 (1979). . . . The legislative histories of Sections 284.30, 284.31, and, especially 284.38, support this construction . . . Finally, it is also noted that the language in Sections 284.30 and 284.31 which permits payment by the . . .

INDIANA ROLLING MILL BALING CORPORATION, v. NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY,, 240 F.2d 74 (7th Cir. 1957)

. . . The premium on the policy in suit in the Cincinnati area would have been $284.31 as compared with $219.08 . . .

INDIANA ROLLING MILL BALING CORPORATION v. NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, 141 F. Supp. 831 (N.D. Ind. 1956)

. . . than 100 miles from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and where the premium on the policy in suit would have been $284.31 . . .