Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.2078

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
   Except as contained in the policy and the usual agreement for other insurance, no insurance company, insurer, corporation, partnership, or individual shall make any contract or agreement with any person insured or to be insured that the whole or any part of any insurance which is subject to the provisions of chapter 26 of this code (fire and inland marine rates), shall be placed by any particular corporation, partnership, or individual, or be written by any particular company, insurer, agent or any group of companies, insurers or agents. Any contracts made in contravention of this section, shall be null and void.