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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-53-106

  • Attorney: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as the attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate them on reciprocal insurance contracts. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: means a natural person, company, corporation, unincorporated association, partnership, professional corporation, agency of government and any other entity. See Tennessee Code 56-53-101
  • Practitioner: means a licensee of this state authorized to practice medicine and surgery, psychology, chiropractic or law or any other licensee of the state or person required to be licensed in the state whose services are compensated either in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by insurance proceeds, including, but not limited to, automotive repair shops, building contractors and insurance adjusters, or a licensee similarly licensed in other states and nations or the licensed practitioner of any nonmedical treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing. See Tennessee Code 56-53-101
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Any practitioner determined by the court to have violated § 56-53-102 shall be deemed to have committed an act involving moral turpitude that is inimical to the public well being. The court or prosecutor shall notify the appropriate licensing authority in this state of the judgment for appropriate disciplinary action, including revocation of the professional license, and may notify appropriate licensing authorities in any other jurisdictions where the practitioner is licensed. Any victim may notify the appropriate licensing authorities in this state and any other jurisdiction where the practitioner is licensed, of the conviction.
(2) Upon notification of a conviction of the crimes enumerated in § 56-53-102 or a substantially similar crime under the laws of another state or the United States, this state’s appropriate licensing authority may hold an administrative hearing, or take other appropriate administrative action authorized by state law, to consider the imposition of the administrative sanctions as provided by law against the practitioner. Where the practitioner has been convicted of a felony violation of § 56-53-102 or a substantially similar crime under the laws of another state or of the United States, this state’s appropriate licensing authority may hold an administrative hearing, or take other appropriate administrative action authorized by state law, and may summarily and permanently revoke the license or take other action against the licensee as deemed appropriate. It is recommended by the legislature that the supreme court shall summarily and permanently disbar any attorney found guilty of such felony.
(3) The referrals to the appropriate licensing or other agencies, and all dispositive actions of the referral, shall be a matter of public record.
(b)

(1) A person convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust shall not participate in the business of insurance unless a waiver is granted by the commissioner.
(2) A person in the business of insurance shall not knowingly or intentionally permit a person convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust to participate in the business of insurance unless a waiver has been granted by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision (b)(1).
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