626.841  Definitions.--The term:

(1)  "Title insurance agent" means a person appointed in writing by a title insurer to issue and countersign binders, commitments, policies of title insurance, or guarantees of title in its behalf.

(2)  "Title insurance agency" means an insurance agency under which title insurance agents and other employees determine insurability in accordance with underwriting rules and standards prescribed by the title insurer represented by the agency, and issue and countersign binders, commitments of title insurance, endorsements, or guarantees of title, on behalf of the appointing title insurer. The term does not include a title insurer.

History.--ss. 575, 809(2nd), ch. 82-243; s. 79, ch. 82-386; s. 1, ch. 86-286; ss. 11, 114, ch. 92-318.