CHAPTER 3. RESTRICTIONS ON UNLAWFUL INSURANCE PRODUCER REPRESENTATION
IC 27-4-3
Chapter 3. Restrictions on Unlawful Insurance Producer
Representation
IC 27-4-3-1
Two or more companies coercing or inducing insurance producer
to refrain from representing additional companies
Sec. 1. It is hereby declared unlawful for any two (2) or more
insurance companies writing the same class, or classes, of risks and
doing business in this state, directly or indirectly, to enter into any
arrangement, contract, agreement, understanding, combination or
association to require, coerce or induce any insurance producer or
representative of any two (2) or more of such insurance companies
within the state of Indiana to refrain from representing other such
insurance companies, or to afford any advantage to any insurance
producer to refrain from representing other such insurance
companies or to impose upon the insurance producer any
disadvantage by reason of the insurance producer's acting as
representative of other such insurance companies.
(Formerly: Acts 1937, c.46, s.1.) As amended by P.L.178-2003,
SEC.36.
IC 27-4-3-2
Insurance producer's agreement not to represent additional
companies; exclusive representation of single company
Sec. 2. (a) It is unlawful for any insurance producer representing
or acting for two (2) or more insurance companies writing the same
class or classes, of risks to enter, either directly or indirectly, into any
agreement, arrangement, contract or understanding with one (1) or
more of such companies that the insurance producer will refrain from
representing any other like company or companies, and it is unlawful
for any such insurance company, not having a contract requiring an
insurance producer to represent the insurance company alone, in any
manner to require, coerce, or induce any insurance producer to
refrain from representing any other like company or companies.
(b) This section does not prevent any insurance company or
insurance producer from at any time entering into a bona fide
contract whereby an insurance producer agrees that the insurance
producer will thereafter represent a single company exclusively.
(Formerly: Acts 1937, c.46, s.2.) As amended by P.L.178-2003,
SEC.37.
IC 27-4-3-3
Violations; license suspension; public hearing; appeal
Sec. 3. For violation of any provision of this chapter, the license
of the offending company or insurance producer to transact the
business of insurance within the state of Indiana shall be suspended
for a period of three (3) years. Whenever information of any such
violation shall come to the knowledge of the commissioner of
insurance, the commissioner shall issue an order fixing a day certain,
not more than thirty (30) nor less than twenty (20) days from the
making thereof, upon which the offender shall appear and show
cause why such penalty should not be enforced, such order
specifying with reasonable certainty the violation charged, and if,
after hearing, the commissioner shall determine that the company or
insurance producer is guilty of such violation, the commissioner shall
forthwith suspend the license of the offender for a period of three (3)
years. Such hearing shall be public, and at any such hearing any
person or corporation having lodged information of such violation
with the commissioner shall be entitled to be present and submit
evidence. Within thirty (30) days after the suspension of any such
license, the insurance producer or company whose license has been
suspended may appeal from the ruling of the commissioner of
insurance to the circuit or superior court of the county in which the
insurance producer resides or in which such company has its
principal place of business, and if such company be a foreign
insurance company then such appeal may be taken by such company
to the circuit or superior court of Marion County.
(Formerly: Acts 1937, c.46, s.3.) As amended by P.L.252-1985,
SEC.158; P.L.178-2003, SEC.38.