(a) No title insurer or title insurance agent may accept any order for, issue a title insurance policy to, or provide services to, an applicant if such insurer or agent knows or has reason to believe that the applicant was referred to such insurer or agent by any producer of title insurance business or by any associate of such producer, where the producer, the associate or both, have a financial interest in the title insurer or title agent to which business is referred unless the producer has disclosed to the buyer, seller, lender, the financial interest of the producer of title insurance business or associate referring the title insurance business. The disclosure shall be made in writing on forms prescribed by the commissioner. The title insurer shall maintain the disclosure forms for a period of three years.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-416

  • Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
  • Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1

(b) Each title insurer and title agent shall file with the commissioner on forms prescribed by the commissioner a report setting forth the names and addresses of those persons, if any, who have had a financial interest in the title insurer or title agent during the calendar year, who are known or reasonably believed by the title insurer to be producers of title business or associates of producers. Each title insurer licensed on October 1, 1990, shall file the report required under this subsection within ninety days after October 1, 1990. Each title insurer shall file the report required under this subsection with its application for a license and at any time there is a change in the information provided in the last report.

(c) No title insurer or title agent may accept an order for title insurance business, issue a title insurance policy or receive or retain any premium, or charge in connection with any transaction if (1) the title insurer or title agent knows or has reason to believe that the transaction will constitute controlled business for that title insurer, and (2) twenty per cent or more of the gross operating revenue of that title insurer in the calendar year in which the transaction takes place is derived from controlled business.

(d) No license may be issued, renewed or continued for a title insurer or title agent who fails to comply with this section.