Indiana Code 27-1-38-8. Required disclosure concerning insurance related to a loan or a credit extension
(1) lends money or extends credit; and
Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-38-8
- affiliate: means a company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. See Indiana Code 27-1-38-1
- depository institution: means a depository financial institution (as defined in IC 28-9-2-6). See Indiana Code 27-1-38-3
- in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- 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
- insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
shall disclose in writing to a customer that the insurance related to the loan or credit extension may be purchased from an insurer or insurance producer chosen by the customer, subject only to the ability of the depository institution or affiliate to reasonably reject an insurer or insurance producer as described in section 7(4) of this chapter.
(b) A disclosure under subsection (a) must inform the customer that the customer’s choice of insurer or insurance producer does not affect:
(1) the decision of the depository institution or the affiliate of a depository institution regarding the loan or credit extension; or
(2) the terms of the loan or credit extension;
except that the depository institution or the affiliate of a depository institution may impose reasonable requirements concerning the creditworthiness of the insurer and the scope of insurance coverage chosen, as described in section 7(4) of this chapter.
As added by P.L.130-2002, SEC.2.