A. The director may examine and investigate the affairs of every insurance institution or insurance producer doing business in this state to determine whether the insurance institution or insurance producer has been or is engaged in any conduct in violation of this chapter.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 20-2114

  • Insurance institution: means any corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal insurer, inter-insurer, Lloyd's association, fraternal benefit society or other person engaged in the business of insurance, including health care service organizations and hospital, medical, dental and optometric service corporations as defined in this title. See Arizona Laws 20-2102
  • Insurance producer: means an insurance producer as defined in section 20-281. See Arizona Laws 20-2102
  • Insurance support organization: means :

    (a) Any person who regularly engages, in whole or in part, in the practice of assembling or collecting information about natural persons for the primary purpose of providing the information to an insurance institution or insurance producer for insurance transactions, including the furnishing of consumer reports or investigative consumer reports to an insurance institution or insurance producer for use in connection with an insurance transaction or the collection of personal information from insurance institutions, insurance producers or other insurance support organizations for the purpose of detecting or preventing fraud, material misrepresentation or material nondisclosure in connection with insurance underwriting or insurance claim activity. See Arizona Laws 20-2102

  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215

B. The director may examine and investigate the affairs of every insurance support organization acting on behalf of an insurance institution or insurance producer which either transacts business in this state or transacts business outside this state that has an effect on a person residing in this state in order to determine whether the insurance support organization has been or is engaged in any conduct in violation of this chapter.