(a) The commissioner may revoke or suspend the license of any premium finance company when after investigation the commissioner finds that:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-37-105
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Licensee: means a premium finance company holding a license issued under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
Person: means an individual, partnership, association, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, common law trust, joint-stock company or any other group of individuals however organized. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
Premium finance company: means a person engaged in the business of entering into premium finance agreements or acquiring premium finance agreements from other premium finance companies. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
(1) The license issued to the company was obtained by fraud;(2) There was any misrepresentation in the application for the license;(3) The holder of the license has otherwise proven untrustworthy or incompetent to act as a premium finance company; or(4) The company has violated any of the provisions of this chapter.(b) Before the commissioner revokes, suspends or refuses to renew the license of any premium finance company, the aggrieved person shall be entitled to a hearing in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. In lieu of revoking or suspending the license for any of the causes enumerated in this section, after hearing as herein provided, the commissioner may subject the company to a penalty of not more than two hundred dollars ($200) for each offense when the commissioner finds that the public interest would not be harmed by the continued operation of the company. The amount of the penalty shall be paid by the company to the commissioner.(c) If the commissioner refuses to issue to any person a license as a premium finance company, or revokes, suspends or refuses to renew the license of any premium finance company, or imposes a penalty on the company, after a hearing as provided under subsection (b), the applicant or licensee may appeal from the refusal to issue a license or from the adjudication in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act.
