Sec. 16. (a) A farm mutual insurance company may not deliver or issue for delivery an insurance policy or an endorsement or a rider to an insurance policy until a copy of the form and the rates charged for the insurance policy are filed with the commissioner.

     (b) A farm mutual insurance company may use any form or rate filed with the commissioner unless the commissioner notifies the farm mutual insurance company in writing that the form is disapproved not more than thirty (30) days after the commissioner’s receipt of the rate or form filing. The commissioner may disapprove a rate or form for the following reasons:

(1) An inconsistency with this article or another applicable state law.

(2) A provision that is:

(A) deceptive;

(B) ambiguous; or

(C) misleading.

     (c) If the commissioner disapproves a rate or form under this section, the commissioner shall notify the farm mutual insurance company of the reason that the rate or form was disapproved. The farm mutual insurance company may request a hearing before the commissioner under IC 4-21.5 concerning the disapproval.

     (d) A farm mutual insurance company may seek judicial review under IC 4-21.5-5 of the commissioner’s final disapproval of a rate or form under this section.

     (e) The commissioner may charge a farm mutual insurance company a reasonable fee as provided in IC 27-1-3-15 for the filing of a rate or form.

As added by P.L.129-2003, SEC.8.