Section 500.2066 - Rebates and illegal inducements prohibited; violation; revocation of license or certificate; penalties.
THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 218 of 1956
500.2066 Rebates and illegal inducements prohibited; violation; revocation of license or certificate; penalties.
Sec. 2066.
(1) No insurer, by itself or any other party, and no insurance agent or solicitor, personally or by any other party, transacting any kind of insurance business shall offer, promise, allow, give, set off or pay, directly or indirectly, any rebate of, or part of, the premium payable on the policy or on any policy, or agent's commission thereon, or earnings, profit, dividends or other benefit founded, arising, accruing or to accrue thereon, or therefrom, or any other valuable consideration or inducement to or for insurance, on any risk in this state now or hereafter to be written, which is not specified in the contract of insurance; nor shall any such insurer, agent or solicitor, personally or otherwise, offer, promise, give, sell, or purchase any stocks, bonds, securities or any dividend or profits accruing or to accrue thereon, or other thing of value whatsoever as inducement to insurance or in connection therewith which is not specified in the policy contract.
(2) Upon satisfactory evidence of the violation of this section by any insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, or any insurance broker, the commissioner shall revoke the license or certificate of authority of such offending insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, after following the procedures provided for in section 2068; and no license or certificate of authority shall be issued to such insurer, officers, agents, solicitors or brokers, within 1 year from the date of such revocation.
(3) Violations of this section shall also be subject to the penalties provided for in section 2069.
History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Popular Name: Act 218