N.Y. Insurance Law Section 2125
Marine insurance

  • acting as agent, broker or insurer of persons without insurable interest

(a)

No person, firm, association or corporation shall knowingly act as insurance agent or act as insurance broker in this state, or shall as insurer knowingly act in this state, in the sale, solicitation or negotiation, issuance or delivery of any binder, cover note, certificate, policy or other evidence of a contract of marine insurance except on the application and in the name of some person or persons having a bona fide interest, direct or indirect, either in the safe arrival of the vessel in relation to which the contract is made or to be made, or in the safety or preservation of the subject matter insured or to be insured, or except on the application and in the name of some person or persons having a bona fide reasonable expectation of acquiring such an interest.

(b)

No insurance broker or other person, firm, association or corporation not having such a bona fide interest or bona fide expectation of acquiring such an interest, shall knowingly apply for, effect, accept or transfer in this state any such evidence of a contract of marine insurance without having been previously authorized so to do by, or by the authority of, a person, firm, association or corporation having such a bona fide interest or a bona fide expectation of acquiring such an interest.

Source: Section 2125 — Marine insurance; acting as agent, broker or insurer of persons without insurable interest, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ISC/2125 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).

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Definitions 2102
Acting without a license 2103
Insurance agents 2104
Insurance brokers 2105
Excess line brokers 2106
Reinsurance intermediaries 2107
Insurance consultants 2108
Adjusters 2109
Agents and brokers 2110
Revocation or suspension of license of insurance producer, insurance consultant, adjuster or life settlement broker 2111
Revoked licensees 2112
Certificate of appointment of an insurance producer to act as an agent and notice of termination of an insurance producer 2113
Title insurance agent commissions 2114
Life, accident and health insurance agents 2115
Property/casualty insurance agents 2116
Insurance brokers 2117
Acting for or aiding unlicensed or unauthorized insurers or health maintenance organizations 2118
Excess line brokers 2119
Insurance agents, brokers, consultants, life settlement brokers, and title insurance agents 2120
Fiduciary capacity of insurance agents, title insurance agents, insurance brokers and reinsurance intermediaries 2121
Broker authorized to receive premium, when 2122
Advertising by insurance producers 2123
Misrepresentations, misleading statements and incomplete comparisons 2124
Stay or suspension of superintendent’s determination 2125
Marine insurance 2126
Impersonation at examinations prohibited 2127
Penalties for violations 2128
Commission and fee sharing prohibited 2129
Duty to have an agent or broker at each place of business 2130
Excess line association 2131
Limited license for rental vehicle companies, wireless communications equipment vendors and self-service storage companies 2132
Continuing education 2133
Forged insurance identification cards 2134
Change of address 2135
Administration of certain functions 2136
Reciprocity 2137
Life settlement brokers 2138
Health benefit exchange navigators 2139
Title insurance agents 2140
Restrictions on insurance producers procuring immigration bonds
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Accessed:
Apr. 27, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 2125’s source at nysenate​.gov

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