41-4022 PENALTIES. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 41

INSURANCE

CHAPTER 40

SELF-FUNDED HEALTH CARE PLANS

41-4022. Penalties. (1) Any person who willfully violates or causes or induces violation of any provision of this chapter or any lawful rule of the director issued thereunder, shall be subject to an administrative penalty for each violation of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for an individual and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for any entity.

(2) Any person who makes a false statement or representation of a material fact, knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to disclose a material fact in any application, examination, or statement required under this chapter or by lawful rule of the director thereunder, shall be subject to penalty as provided in subsection (4) of this section.

(3) Any person who makes a false entry in any book, record, statement, or report required by this chapter or lawful rule of the director thereunder to be kept by him for any self-funded plan, with intent to injure or defraud the trust fund or any beneficiary thereunder, or to deceive anyone authorized or entitled to examine the affairs of the plan, shall be subject to penalty as provided in subsection (4) of this section.

(4) For each such violation, act or omission referred to in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, unless greater penalty is provided therefor under any other applicable law, the offender shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) and to imprisonment for not more than fifteen (15) years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.