Sun Coast Home Care, Inc. v. State, Department of Insurance

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Sun Coast Home Care, Inc. (Sun Coast), appeals a declaratory statement issued by the Department of Insurance pursuant to section 120.565, Florida Statutes (Supp.1996). The declaratory statement ruled that two contracts for services offered by Sun Coast were insurance. We reverse because the record before the Department was insufficient to support this declaration.

In November 1996, Sun Coast filed a petition for a declaratory statement. Sun Coast asked the Department to issue a statement that their “service contracts [were] not insurance or health insurance as defined by…