ARTICLE 6.5. Unfair Practices [790. - 790.15.]
Article 6.5 added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1737.
§§ 790–790.15 · 17 sections
- § 790 The purpose of this article is to regulate trade practices in the business of insurance in accordance with the intent of Congress as expressed in the Act of…
- § 790.01 This article applies to reciprocal and interinsurance exchanges, Lloyds insurers, fraternal benefit societies, fraternal fire insurers, grants and annuities…
- § 790.02 No person shall engage in this State in any trade practice which is defined in this article as, or determined pursuant to this article to be, an unfair method…
- § 790.03 The following are hereby defined as unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance. (a) Making, issuing,…
- § 790.031 The requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 790.034, and Sections 2071.1 and 10082.3 shall apply only to policies of residential property insurance as…
- § 790.034 (a) Regulations adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this article that relate to the settlement of claims shall take into consideration settlement practices…
- § 790.035 (a) Any person who engages in any unfair method of competition or any unfair or deceptive act or practice defined in Section 790.03 is liable to the state for…
- § 790.036 (a) It is an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance for an insurer to advertise insurance that it will not sell. (b) Nothing in this…
- § 790.037 (a) It is an unfair business practice for a health insurance agent or broker to sell, solicit, or negotiate the purchase of health insurance by any of the…
- § 790.04 The commissioner shall have power to examine and investigate into the affairs of every person engaged in the business of insurance in the State in order to…
- § 790.05 Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that a person has been engaged or is engaging in this state in any unfair method of competition or any…
- § 790.06 (a) Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that any person engaged in the business of insurance is engaging in this state in any method of…
- § 790.07 Whenever the commissioner shall have reason to believe that any person has violated a cease and desist order issued pursuant to Section 790.05 or a court order…
- § 790.08 The powers vested in the commissioner in this article shall be additional to any other powers to enforce any penalties, fines or forfeitures, denials,…
- § 790.09 No order to cease and desist issued under this article directed to any person or subsequent administrative or judicial proceeding to enforce the same shall in…
- § 790.10 The commissioner shall, from time to time as conditions warrant, after notice and public hearing, promulgate reasonable rules and regulations, and amendments…
- § 790.15 (a) If an insurer or any affiliate of an insurer has failed to pay any valid claim from Holocaust survivors, the certificate of authority of the insurer shall…