1. Insurers. This subchapter may not be construed to require an insurer to obtain an insurance producer license. In this section, “insurer” does not include an insurer’s officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries or affiliates.

[PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-C

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • health insurance: means insurance of human beings against bodily injury, disablement or death by accident or accidental means, or the expense thereof, or against disablement or expense resulting from sickness, and every insurance appertaining thereto, including provision for the mental and emotional welfare of human beings by defraying the costs of legal services only to the extent provided for in chapter 38. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 704
  • Insurance producer: means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this State to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • Insurer: means a person engaged in the business of entering into contracts of insurance, as defined in section 3, and includes a health maintenance organization, fraternal benefit society, nonprofit hospital or medical service organization, viatical settlement provider or risk retention group. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • License: means a document issued by the superintendent authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • Negotiate: means the act of conferring directly with or offering advice directly to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning any of the substantive benefits, terms or conditions of the contract, provided that the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • Person: means an individual or a business entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • Resident: means any of the following:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1402
  • Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
  • Solicit: means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 1420-A
    • 2. Exceptions. A license as an insurance producer is not required of the following:
    A. An officer, director or employee of an insurer or of an insurance producer, only if that officer, director or employee does not receive any commission on policies written or sold to insure risks residing, located or to be performed in this State and:

    (1) The activities of the officer, director or employee are executive, administrative, managerial, clerical or a combination of these and are only indirectly related to the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance;
    (2) The functions of officer, director or employee relate to underwriting, loss control, inspection or the processing, adjusting, investigating or settling of a claim on a contract of insurance; or
    (3) The officer, director or employee is acting in the capacity of a special agent or agency supervisor assisting insurance producers when the person‘s activities are limited to providing technical advice and assistance to licensed insurance producers and do not include the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance; [PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]
    B. A person who secures and furnishes information for the purpose of group life insurance, group property and casualty insurance, group annuities, group or blanket accident and health insurance; a person who secures and furnishes information for the purpose of enrolling individuals under plans, issuing certificates under plans or otherwise assisting in administering plans; or a person who performs administrative services related to mass marketed property and casualty insurance without being paid a commission for the service; [PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]
    C. An employer or association or its officers, directors or employees, or the trustees of an employee trust plan, to the extent that the employer, officers, employees, directors or trustees are engaged in the administration or operation of a program of employee benefits for the employer’s or association’s own employees or the employees of its subsidiaries or affiliates, which program involves the use of insurance issued by an insurer, as long as the employer, association, officers, directors, employees or trustees are not in any manner compensated, directly or indirectly, by the company issuing the contracts; [PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]
    D. Employees of insurers or organizations employed by insurers who are engaging in the inspection, rating or classification of risks, or in the supervision of the training of insurance producers, and who are not individually engaged in the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance; [PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]
    E. A person whose activities in this State are limited to advertising without the intent to solicit insurance in this State through communications in printed publications or other forms of electronic mass media, whose distribution is not limited to residents of the State, if the person does not sell, solicit or negotiate insurance that would insure risks residing, located or to be performed in this State; [PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW).]
    F. A person who is not a resident of this State who sells, solicits or negotiates a contract of insurance for commercial property and casualty risks to an insured with risks located in more than one state insured under that contract, if that person is otherwise licensed as an insurance producer to sell, solicit or negotiate that insurance in the state where the insured maintains its principal place of business and the contract of insurance insures risks located in that state; [PL 2011, c. 297, §2 (AMD).]
    G. A salaried full-time employee who counsels or advises that person’s employer relative to the insurance interests of the employer or of the subsidiaries or business affiliates of the employer if the employee does not sell or solicit insurance or receive a commission; [PL 2021, c. 218, §2 (AMD).]
    H. A person who offers to sell or sells portable electronic device insurance pursuant to a license issued by the superintendent under chapter 89; or [PL 2021, c. 218, §3 (AMD).]
    I. A person who offers to sell or sells self-storage insurance pursuant to a license issued by the superintendent under chapter 99. [PL 2021, c. 676, Pt. A, §36 (AMD).]

    [PL 2021, c. 676, Pt. A, §36 (AMD).]

    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 2001, c. 259, §24 (NEW). PL 2011, c. 297, §§2-4 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 218, §§2-4 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 676, Pt. A, §36 (AMD).
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