Indiana Code 27-1-12-25. Misrepresentation of policy terms or benefits; inducing policyholder to lapse, forfeit, or surrender insurance
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-25
- Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, and partnerships; personal pronoun includes all genders; the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- policyholder: means one who is a holder of a contract of insurance in an insurance company. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
Sec. 25. No life insurance company doing business in this state, and no officer, director or agent thereof shall make, issue or circulate, or cause to be issued or circulated, any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement of any sort misrepresenting the terms of any policy issued or to be issued by it or the benefits or advantages promised thereby, or the dividends or share of the surplus to be received thereon, or shall use any name or title of any policy or class of policies misrepresenting the true nature thereof. Nor shall a person make any misrepresentation to any person insured in any company for the purpose of inducing or tending to induce a policyholder in any company to lapse, forfeit, or surrender his insurance.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.164. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2710.