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Terms Used In Maryland Code, INSURANCE 8-106

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
(a) In this section, “reinsurance intermediary” means a person that acts as an insurance producer in:

(1) soliciting, negotiating, or procuring a reinsurance contract or binder for a ceding insurer; or

(2) accepting a reinsurance contract or binder for an assuming insurer.

(b) This section does not apply to a reinsurance intermediary that makes a complete written disclosure to the parties of its relationship with the assuming or ceding insurer before completion of the transaction.

(c) A reinsurance intermediary that has control of an assuming insurer may not directly or indirectly place insurance business with the assuming insurer in a transaction in which the reinsurance intermediary acts as an insurance producer for the ceding insurer.

(d) A reinsurance intermediary that has control of a ceding insurer may not directly or indirectly accept business from the ceding insurer in a transaction in which the reinsurance intermediary acts as an insurance producer for the assuming insurer.