33-2-1347. Duty of insurance producers to give notice. - Montana Statutes

     33-2-1347. Duty of insurance producers to give notice. (1) Every person who receives notice in the form prescribed in 33-2-1346 that an insurer that the person represents as an insurance producer is the subject of a liquidation order shall within 15 days of the notice give notice of the liquidation order. The notice must be sent by first-class mail to the last address contained in the insurance producer's records to each policyholder or other person named in any policy issued through the insurance producer by the insurer if the producer has a record of the address of the policyholder or other person. A policy must be considered issued through an insurance producer if the insurance producer has a property interest in the expiration of the policy or if the insurance producer has had in the producer's possession a copy of the declarations of the policy at any time during the life of the policy, except where the ownership of the expiration of the policy has been transferred to another. The written notice must include the name and address of the insurer, the name and address of the insurance producer, identification of the policy impaired, and the nature of the impairment, including termination of coverage as described in 33-2-1343. Notice by a general insurance producer satisfies the notice requirement for any insurance producers under contract to the producer. Each insurance producer obligated to give notice under this section shall file a report of compliance with the liquidator.
     (2) Any insurance producer failing to give notice or file a report of compliance as required in subsection (1) may be subject to payment of a penalty of not more than $1,000 and may have the producer's license suspended after a hearing held by the commissioner.
     (3) The liquidator may waive the duties imposed by this section if the liquidator determines that other notice to the policyholders of the insurer under liquidation is adequate.

     History: En. Sec. 23, Ch. 383, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 713, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1106, Ch. 56, L. 2009.