Florida Statutes 641.281 – Injunction
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 641.281
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Entity: means any legal entity with continuing existence, including, but not limited to, a corporation, association, trust, or partnership. See Florida Statutes 641.19
- Health maintenance organization: means any organization authorized under this part which:(a) Provides, through arrangements with other persons, emergency care, inpatient hospital services, physician care including care provided by physicians licensed under chapters 458, 459, 460, and 461, ambulatory diagnostic treatment, and preventive health care services. See Florida Statutes 641.19
- person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
In addition to the penalties and other enforcement provisions of this part, the office and department, within the scope of their regulatory jurisdictions, are vested with the power to seek both temporary and permanent injunctive relief when:(1) A health maintenance organization is being operated by any person or entity without a subsisting certificate of authority.(2) Any person, entity, or health maintenance organization has engaged in any activity prohibited by this part or any rule adopted pursuant thereto.(3) Any health maintenance organization, person, or entity is renewing, issuing, or delivering a health maintenance contract or contracts without a subsisting certificate of authority.The office’s and department’s authority to seek injunctive relief shall not be conditioned on having conducted any proceeding pursuant to chapter 120.