(1)  A person licensed under Chapter 23a, Insurance Marketing – Licensing Producers, Consultants, and Reinsurance Intermediaries, may not perform an act that assists a person not authorized as an insurer to act as an insurer.

Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-23a-116

  • Certificate: means evidence of insurance given to:
(a) an insured under a group insurance policy; or
(b) a third party. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Employee: means :
    (a) an individual employed by an employer; or
    (b) an individual who meets the requirements of Subsection (53)(b). See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Insurance: includes :
    (i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;
    (ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and
    (iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Insurer: is a s defined in Section 31A-1-301, except that the following persons or similar persons are not insurers for purposes of 7:
    (a) a risk retention group as defined in:
    (i) the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, Pub. See Utah Code 31A-23a-102
  • Person: includes :
    (a) an individual;
    (b) a partnership;
    (c) a corporation;
    (d) an incorporated or unincorporated association;
    (e) a joint stock company;
    (f) a trust;
    (g) a limited liability company;
    (h) a reciprocal;
    (i) a syndicate; or
    (j) another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • producer: means a person licensed or required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Reinsurance: means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration, transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • Security: means a:
    (i) note;
    (ii) stock;
    (iii) bond;
    (iv) debenture;
    (v) evidence of indebtedness;
    (vi) certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement;
    (vii) collateral-trust certificate;
    (viii) preorganization certificate or subscription;
    (ix) transferable share;
    (x) investment contract;
    (xi) voting trust certificate;
    (xii) certificate of deposit for a security;
    (xiii) certificate of interest of participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease;
    (xiv) commodity contract or commodity option;
    (xv) certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in Subsections (171)(a)(i) through (xiv); or
    (xvi) another interest or instrument commonly known as a security. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Surplus: means the excess of assets over the sum of paid-in capital and liabilities. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • (2)  It is a violation of this section to assist a person purporting to be exempt from state insurance regulation under Section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, unless that person submits to the commissioner a certificate from the United States Department of Labor, or other evidence satisfactory to the commissioner, showing that the laws of Utah are preempted under Section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or other federal law.

    (3)  It is not a violation of this section:

    (a)  to assist a person engaged in self insurance as defined under Section 31A-1-301; or

    (b)  for a surplus lines producer to engage in the placement of insurance under Section 31A-15-103.

    Amended by Chapter 345, 2008 General Session