South Carolina Code 38-43-450. Excess of return premium over unpaid balance and charges held in trust
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-43-450
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Premium: means payment given in consideration of a contract of insurance. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
- producer: means a person who represents an insurance company and is required to be licensed pursuant to § 38-43-10. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
Any excess of return premium paid by the insurer to a producer, agency, or producer of record in discharge of the lien provided by this article over the amount of unpaid balance and accrued service charges must be held by the producer, agency, or producer of record in his or its fiduciary capacity and the excess must be paid to the insured within a reasonable time and in no event later than thirty days after receipt by the producer, agency, or producer of record of the return premium refunded by the insurer.