Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
Respondent: WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN
Judges: LARRY J. SARTIN
Agency: Department of Financial Services
Locations: West Palm Beach, Florida
Filed: Aug. 31, 2006
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Monday, October 23, 2006.
Latest Update: Feb. 23, 2025
FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF
FINANCIAL SERVICES
TOM GALLAGHER AUG «9 2006
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
STATE OF FLORIDA
Dooketed by_ &CL.
IN THE MATTER OF:
CASE NO. 86532-06-AG
WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
TO: WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN O (o . for) 0 p C
564010 Arbor Club Way
Boca Raton, Florida 33433
You, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, are hereby notified that pursuant to Chapter
626, Florida Statutes, the Chief Financial Officer of the State of Florida, has caused to be made
an investigation of your activities while licensed as an insurance agent in this state, as a result of
which it is alleged:
GENERAL ALLEGATIONS
1. You, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, are currently licensed in the state as a
life, and variable annuity contracts salesman, life insurance agent, life and health insurance agent
and health insurance agent.
2. At all time pertinent to the dates and occurrences referred to in this
Administrative Complaint you, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, were licensed as an
insurance agent in this state.
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3. Paragraphs one and two are realleged and incorporated herein by reference.
4, On or about July 12, 2005, you, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN. , acting asa
viatical broker pursuant to Section 626.991 1(9), Florida Statutes, solicited and induced W.W. of
Lauderhill, Florida to enter into a fraudulent viatical settlement contract with Universal
Settlements International (hereinafter referred to USD), to purchase his Jefferson Pilot Life life
insurance policy with a death benefit value of $10,000,000.00 for the gross purchase price of
$4,500,000.00.
3. At no time pertinent to the dates and occurrences referred to herein was USI
either licensed in this state as a viatical settlement provider pursuant to Section 626.9912, Florida
Statute or was it authorized to enter-into or solicit any viatical settlement contract. However, by
soliciting and entering into the viatical settlement contract refereed to above, USI was acting and
doing business in this state as a viatical settlement provider as defined by Section 626.9911(12),
Florida Statutes,
6. Pursuant to Section 626.992(2), Florida Statutes, you, WARREN ALAN
MARMORSTEIN, may not negotiate or attempt to negotiate a viatical contract between USI and
any resident of this state. You, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEI, were aware or should have
been aware of these facts but failed to disclose these facts to W.W.
7. You, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEN, dealt in bad faith and violated your
fiduciary duty to W.W. pursuant to Section 626.991 6(5), Florida Statutes by representing to
W.W. that he was only to receive $2,800.000.00 under the contract. You, WARREN ALAN
MARMORSTEI, failed to disclose to W.W. that you and USI had negotiated a $4,500,000.00
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"total purchase price for the life insurance policy with $1,700,000.00 of this money paid directly
to you by USI as your commission or compensation and W.W. only receiving the remainder,
W.W. was neither informed of this $1,700,000.00 payment nor did he give his informed consent
to it. Your representations, both by omission and commission, to W.W. were false and a
material misstatement of fact.
8. The failure to disclose the $1,700,000.00 commission to W.W. and to obtain his
informed consent also constitutes a violation of Section 626.99181, Florida Statutes,
9. W.W. refused to go forward with the transaction with USI. As a result, you,
WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEN, have filed a civil action in the Broward County Circuit
Court in an attempt to compel specific performance and collect compensatory damages,
notwithstanding the fact that even if W.W. had gone forward with the transaction, any viatical
contract he entered into, pursuant to Section 626.9924(2), Florida Statutes, would have had an
unconditional 15 day right of rescission. W.W. has incurred legal expenses as a result,
IT IS THEREFORE CHARGED that you, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, have
violated or are accountable under the following provisions of the Florida Insurance Code and
Rules of the State Chief Financial Officer which constitute grounds for the suspension or
revocation of your insurance licenses and eli gibility for licensure:
(a) Willful misrepresentation of any insurance policy or annuity contract or willful
deception with regards to any such policy or contract. {Section 626.611(5), Florida Statutes};
(b) Demonstrated lack of fitness or trustworthiness to engage in the business of
insurance. [Section 626.611(7), Florida Statutes];
{c) Willful failure to comply with, or willful violation of, any proper order or rule of
the department or willful violation of any provision of this code, [Section 626.611(13), Florida
Statutes]
(d) In transactions related to viatical settlement contracts as defined in section
_ 626.9911, Florida Statutes:
(a) Commission of a fraudulent or dishonest act.
(b) Having received a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration for his
or her services with respect to viatical settlements that involved unlicensed
viatical settlement providers,
(c) Dealing in bad faith with viators.
[Section 626.611(17), Florida Statutes]
(e) Violation of any provision of this code or of any other law applicable to the
business of insurance in the course of dealing under the license or appointment. [Section
626.621(2), Florida Statutes]
(f) No person shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in this
part as, or determined pursuant to s. 626.951 or s. 626.9561 to be, an unfair method of
competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice involving the business of insurance.
(Section 626.9521, Florida Statutes]
(g) Knowingly:
a. Filing with any supervisory or other public official,
b. Making, publishing, disseminating, circulating,
c. Delivering to any person,
d. Placing before the public,
e, Causing, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated,
delivered to any person, or placed before the public, any false material statement. [Section
626.9541(1)(e) 1, Florida Statutes]
(h) A viatical settlement broker may not use any person to perform the functions of a
viatical settlement provider as defined in this act unless such person holds a current, valid license as
a viatical settlement provider. [Section 626.992(2), Florida Statutes]
(i) A violation of this act is an unfair trade practice under ss. 626.9521 and 626.9541,
Florida Statutes and is subject to the penalties provided for in the insurance code. Part LX of this
chapter, entitled Unfair Insurance Trade Practices, applies to a licensee under this act or a
transaction subject to this act as if a viatical settlement contract were an insurance policy.
[Section 626.9927(1), Florida Statutes]
WHEREFORE, you, WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, are hereby notified that the
Chief Financial Officer intends to enter an Order suspending or revoking your licenses and
appointments as an insurance agent or to impose such penalties as may be provided under the
provisions of Sections 626.611, 626.621, 626.681, 626.691, 626.9521, 626.9571, and 626.9581,
Florida Statutes, and under the other referenced sections of the Florida Statutes as set out in this
Administrative Complaint.
NOTICE OF RIGHTS
You have the right to request a proceeding to contest this action by the Department
pursuant to sections 120.569 and 120.57, Florida Statutes, and Rule 28-107, Florida
Administrative Code, The proceeding request must be in writing, signed by you, and must be
filed with the Department within twenty-one (21) days of your receipt of this notice. Completion
of the attached Election of Proceeding form and/or a petition for administrative hearing will
suffice as a written request. The request must be filed with the General Counsel as acting
Agency Clerk, at the Florida Department of Financial Services, 612 Larson Building, 200 East
Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0333. Your written response must be received by the
Department no later than 5:00 p.m. on the twenty-first day after your receipt of this notice.
Mailing the response on the twenty-first day will not preserve your right to a hearing,
YOUR FAILURE TO RESPOND IN WRITING WITHIN
TWENTY-ONE (21) DAYS OF YOUR RECEIPT OF THIS
NOTICE WILL CONSTITUTE A WAIVER OF YOUR RIGHT TO
REQUEST A PROCEEDING ON THE MATTERS ALLEGED
HEREIN AND AN ORDER OF REVOCATION WILL BE
ENTERED AGAINST YOU.
If you request a proceeding, you must provide information that complies with the
requirements of Rule 28-107.004, Florida Administrative Code. As noted above, completion of
the attached Election of Proceeding form conforms to these requirements. Specifically, your
response must contain:
(a) The name and address of the party making the request, for purpose of service;
(b) A statement that the party is requesting a hearing involving disputed issues of
material fact, or a hearing not involving disputed issues of material fact; and
(c) A reference to the notice, order to show cause, administrative complaint, or other
communication that the party has received form the agency.
Ifa hearing of any type is requested, you have the right to be represented by counsel or
other qualified representative at your expense, to present evidence and argument, to call and
cross-examine witnesses, and to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of
documents by subpoena.
If a proceeding is requested and there is no dispute of material fact, the provisions of
section 120.57(2), Florida Statutes, apply. In this regard, you may submit oral or written
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evidence in opposition to the action taken by the Department or a written statement challenging
the grounds upon which the Department has relied. While a hearing is normally not required in
the absence of a dispute of fact, if you feel that a hearing is necessary, one will be conducted in
Tallahassee, Florida, or by telephonic conference call upon your request,
However, if you dispute material facts which are the basis for the Department’s action,
you must request an adversarial proceeding pursuant to sections 120.569 and 120.57(1), Florida
Statutes. These proceedings are held before a State administrative law judge of the Division of
Administrative Hearings. Unless the majority of witnesses are located elsewhere, the
Department will request that the hearing be conducted in Tallahassee, Florida.
Failure to follow the procedure outlined with regard to your response to this notice may
result in the request being denied. All prior oral communication or correspondence in this matter
shall be considered freeform agency action, and no such oral communication or correspondence
shall operate as a valid request for an administrative proceeding. Any request for an
administrative proceeding received prior to the date of this notice shall be deemed abandoned
unless timely renewed in compliance with the guidelines as set out above.
Mediation of this matter pursuant to section 120.573, Florida Statutes, is not available.
No Department attorney will discuss this matter with you until the response has been received by
the Department of Financial Services.
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DATED and SIGNED this 4" day of August , 2006.
IN CHANDLER
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
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ERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Administrative
Complaint was mailed by certified mail to: WARREN ALAN MARMORSTEIN, 564010
Arbor Club Way, Boca Raton, Florida 33433 on this Ci day of Aogust , 2006.
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AMES A. BOSSART, ESQUIRE
ivision of Legal Services
612 Larson Building
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0333
(850) 413-4124
Docket for Case No: 06-003290PL
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Oct. 23, 2006 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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Oct. 20, 2006 |
Notice of Voluntary Dismissal filed.
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Oct. 02, 2006 |
Notice of Change of Address (filed by W. Marmorstein).
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Sep. 25, 2006 |
Notice of Appearance (filed by T. Schoenwalder).
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Sep. 13, 2006 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Sep. 13, 2006 |
Notice of Hearing by Video Teleconference (hearing set for November 6, 2006; 9:00 a.m.; West Palm Beach and Tallahassee, FL).
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Sep. 08, 2006 |
Letter to Judge Sartin from W. Marmorstein responding to the Initial Order filed.
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Sep. 07, 2006 |
Joint Response to Initial Order filed.
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Sep. 01, 2006 |
Initial Order.
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Aug. 31, 2006 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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Aug. 31, 2006 |
Election of Proceeding filed.
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Aug. 31, 2006 |
Agency referral filed.
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