All life insurance and all health insurance in connection with loans or other credit transactions, credit property insurance, credit involuntary unemployment insurance and other consumer credit insurance specifically authorized by the superintendent in rules adopted pursuant to section 2865 are subject to this chapter, except the following: [PL 2001, c. 471, Pt. D, §25 (AMD).]
1. Long-term loan. Insurance in connection with a loan or other credit transaction of more than 15 years’ duration;

[PL 1999, c. 256, Pt. H, §1 (NEW).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 2851

  • 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
  • Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Isolated transactions. Insurance issued in an isolated transaction on the part of the insurer not related to an agreement or a plan for insuring debtors of the creditor;

[PL 2001, c. 138, §4 (AMD).]

3. Real estate loan. Insurance in connection with real estate loans when the charge, if any, to the debtor is periodic and not financed;

[PL 2001, c. 138, §4 (AMD).]

4. Casualty insurance. Insurance issued pursuant to section 707, subsection 1, paragraph I against loss or damage resulting from failure of debtors to pay their obligations to the insured; or

[PL 2001, c. 138, §4 (NEW).]

5. Debt cancellation agreements. Debt cancellation agreements entered into between financial institutions or credit unions and their debtors.

[PL 2001, c. 138, §4 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1969, c. 132, §1 (NEW). PL 1975, c. 288, §4 (AMD). PL 1981, c. 175, §3 (RPR). PL 1999, c. 256, §H1 (RPR). PL 2001, c. 138, §4 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 471, §D25 (AMD).