56-7-1431 - Advertising. - Tennessee Statutes

56-7-1431. Advertising.

(a)  Every insurer, health care service plan, or other entity providing medicare supplement insurance or benefits in this state shall provide a copy of any medicare supplement advertisement intended for use in this state whether through written, radio or television medium to the commissioner for review or approval by the commissioner pursuant to rules promulgated pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

(b)  The rules shall set forth standards for the format and content of medicare supplement insurance advertising, which advertising shall be sufficiently complete, clear, and unambiguous to avoid deception or the capacity or tendency to mislead or deceive. In setting standards, the commissioner shall consider the overall impression that the advertisement may be reasonably expected to create upon a person of average education or intelligence within the segment of the public to which it is directed.

[Acts 1989, ch. 87, § 2.]