(a) The commissioner shall have the administrative authority to assess penalties against insurers, nonprofit hospital service plans, administrators, and insurance producers, and other entities engaged in the business of insurance or other persons or entities for violations of this chapter.
(b) Upon a showing of a violation of this chapter in any civil action, a court may also assess the penalties described in this chapter.
(c) The commissioner may suspend or revoke the license or licenses issued to any production agent or administrator found, after notice and hearing, to have violated this chapter or a regulation adopted pursuant to the authority of this chapter. Notice of hearing shall be accomplished and a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the commissioner shall have all of the powers granted therein.
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 949, Sec. 2.)