Sec. 2064.
(1) No insurer, or any officer, director, agent or solicitor thereof shall issue, circulate or use or cause or permit to be issued, circulated or used, any written or oral statement or circular misrepresenting the terms of any policy issued or to be issued by such insurer, or misrepresenting the benefits or privileges promised under any such policy, or estimating the future dividends payable under any such policy.
(2) No insurer, officer, director, agent or solicitor, or any person, firm, association or corporation, shall make any misrepresentation or incomplete comparison of policies, oral, written or otherwise, to any person insured in any insurer for the purpose of inducing or tending to induce such person to take out a policy of insurance or for the purpose of inducing or tending to induce a policyholder in any insurer to lapse, forfeit or surrender his insurance therein, and to take out a policy of insurance in another like insurer.
(3) Upon satisfactory evidence of any violation of the provisions of this section by any insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, or any insurance broker, the commissioner shall forthwith revoke the certificate of authority or license of such insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, after following the procedures provided for in section 2068, and no certificate of authority or license shall be issued to such insurer, officers, agents or solicitors, within 1 year from the date of such revocation.
(4) Violations of this section shall also be subject to the penalties provided for in section 2069.
History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Popular Name: Act 218