Connecticut General Statutes 38a-42 – Contracts with life, accident or health insurance producers
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no insurance company shall enter into any contract of remuneration with any life or accident and health insurance producer where the initial or any renewal commission is contingent upon (1) such contract being in effect more than two years, or (2) any continuing premium or other volume requirement contained in such contract.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-42
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
(b) Any insurance company may enter into a contract of remuneration of the kind prohibited in subsection (a) of this section with any such insurance producer if the company has offered to such producer a contract which contains no such contingent provisions as described in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of this section and which provides actuarially equivalent remuneration to the contract containing such contingent provisions.