N.Y. Insurance Law Section 4215
Contracts with industrial life insurance agents

  • prohibitions

(a)

No life insurance company licensed to do business in this state shall make any contract with any agent, superintendent or other representative employed in this state which provides:

(1)

That the company shall charge against the past, present or future compensation of the agent, superintendent or other representative, either salary or commission, any sum of money as a result of the surrender for cash of any industrial policy by any policyholder;

(2)

That the company shall charge against the past, present or future compensation of the agent, superintendent or other representative, either salary or commission, any sum of money as a result of the lapse of any industrial policy that has been in force for three years or longer.

(b)

The provisions of subsection (a) hereof shall not prohibit the company from contracting with its agents, superintendents or other representatives, to charge any agent, superintendent or other representative, a sum not exceeding the commission on any policy written by the agent, superintendent or other representative on the life of any person, or any relative sharing the home with the person, who has terminated a policy of the company not more than three months before or who terminates such a policy within three months after the policy was written.

Source: Section 4215 — Contracts with industrial life insurance agents; prohibitions, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ISC/4215 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

4202
Capital and surplus requirements of life insurance companies
4203
Transfer of shares of domestic life insurance company
4204
Financial requirements for the organization of stock accident and health insurance companies and stock legal services insurance companies
4205
Life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies
4206
Deposits by life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies
4207
Dividends to shareholders of life, and accident and health insurance companies
4208
Financial and additional requirements for the organization of mutual life, accident and health, and legal services insurance companies
4209
Mutual life insurance companies, mutual accident and health insurance companies
4210
Election of directors of domestic mutual life insurance companies
4211
Election of directors of domestic stock life insurance companies
4212
Stock life insurance companies
4213
Industrial life insurance
4214
Industrial accident and industrial health insurance
4215
Contracts with industrial life insurance agents
4216
Group life insurance
4217
Valuation of insurance policies and contracts
4218
When actual premium is less than net premium
4219
Limitation on accumulation of surplus of life insurance companies
4220
Life insurance and annuities
4221
Standard nonforfeiture law
4222
Policy loans
4223
Standard nonforfeiture law for annuities
4224
Life, accident and health insurance
4225
Domestic life insurance companies
4226
Misrepresentations, misleading statements and incomplete comparisons by insurers
4228
Life insurance and annuity business
4230
Salaries and pensions to officers and employees
4231
Policyholder’s participation in surplus of life insurance companies
4232
Amounts credited on certain contracts or life insurance policies
4233
Annual statements of life insurance companies
4235
Group accident and health insurance
4236
Joint underwriting of group health insurance for persons aged sixty-five and over
4237
Blanket accident and health insurance
4237‑A
Stop-loss insurance
4238
Group annuity contracts
4239
Allocation and reporting of income and expenses of life insurers
4240
Separate accounts
4241
Penalty for violation of filing requirements

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 4215’s source at nysenate​.gov

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