(a) Any person engaged in business as an insurance agent or broker and who participates in the arrangement of a premium financing agreement shall, if he accepts compensation for arranging, directing, or performing services in connection with the premium financing agreement, disclose to the insured, in a manner and form established by the commissioner, the amount of compensation he is to receive from the premium financer and maintain for three years and make available to the commissioner a list of accounts in connection with which he has accepted compensation for premium financing services showing the amount of such compensation with respect to each premium financing agreement and with respect to each financing schedule used by the agent or broker. The requirements of this subdivision shall not apply with respect to interest paid to the broker or agent by the premium financer based upon delay in payment of the premium due the insurer as permitted under subdivision (a) or (b) of § 18628 of the Financial Code.

(b) The commissoner shall hold a hearing and adopt by regulation a standard procedure and form for making the disclosure to the insured required by subdivision (a).

Terms Used In California Insurance Code 778.2

  • Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
  • Insurance agent: means a person authorized, by and on behalf of an insurer, to transact all classes of insurance other than life, disability, or health insurance, on behalf of an admitted insurance company. See California Insurance Code 31
  • Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
  • premium financing: means engaging in the business of advancing money, directly or indirectly, to an insurer or producer at the request of an insured pursuant to the terms of a premium finance agreement, wherein the insured has assigned the unearned premiums, accrued dividends, or loss payments as security for such advancement in payment of premiums on insurance contracts only, and does not include the financing of insurance contract premiums purchased in connection with the financing of goods and services. See California Insurance Code 778

(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 356, Sec. 5.)

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