Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/1001

  • Adverse underwriting decision: means :
            (1) any of the following actions with respect to
    
insurance transactions involving insurance coverage which is individually underwritten:
            (a) a declination of insurance coverage,
            (b) a termination of insurance coverage,
            (c) failure of an agent to apply for insurance
        
coverage with a specific insurance institution which the agent represents and which is requested by an applicant,
            (d) in the case of a property or casualty
        
insurance coverage:
                (i) placement by an insurance institution or
            
agent of a risk with a residual market mechanism, an unauthorized insurer or an insurance institution which specializes in substandard risks, or
                (ii) the charging of a higher rate on the
            
basis of information which differs from that which the applicant or policyholder furnished, or
            (e) in the case of life, health or disability
        
insurance coverage, an offer to insure at higher than standard rates. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/1003
  • Director: means the Director of Insurance. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 215 ILCS 5/1003
  •      The purpose of this Article is to establish standards for the collection, use and disclosure of information gathered in connection with insurance transactions by insurance institutions, agents or insurance-support organizations; to maintain a balance between the need for information by those conducting the business of insurance and the public’s need for fairness in insurance information practices, including the need to minimize intrusiveness; to establish a regulatory mechanism to enable natural persons to ascertain what information is being or has been collected about them in connection with insurance transactions and to have access to such information for the purpose of verifying or disputing its accuracy; to limit the disclosure of information collected in connection with insurance transactions; and to enable insurance applicants and policyholders to obtain the reasons for any adverse underwriting decision. Further, this Article shall grant the Director the authority to enforce Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102, 106th Congress).