Sec. 11. (a) Every person who receives notice in the form prescribed in section 10 of this chapter that an insurer whom the person represents as an insurance producer is the subject of a liquidation order must, within fifteen (15) days of that notice, give notice of the liquidation order to each policyholder as provided by subsection (b).

     (b) 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 that insurance producer by the insurer, if the insurance producer has a record of the address of the policyholder or other person.

     (c) A policy shall be treated as though it were 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 insurance 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.

     (d) The written notice must include:

(1) the name and address of the insurer;

(2) the name and address of the insurance producer; and

(3) identification of the policy impaired and the nature of the impairment, including termination of coverage as described in section 8 of this chapter.

     (e) Notice by a general agent satisfies the notice requirement for any insurance producers under contract to the general agent. Each insurance producer obligated to give notice under this section shall file a report of compliance with the liquidator.

     (f) After a hearing under IC 4-21.5-3, an insurance producer failing to give notice or file a report of compliance as required by subsection (e) may be subject to payment of a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and may have the insurance producer’s license suspended.

     (g) 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.

As added by Acts 1979, P.L.255, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.7-1987, SEC.157; P.L.178-2003, SEC.77.