Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 701a - Insurance Producers, Agents and Third-Party Administrators
Section 38a-702c. - Exceptions to licensing requirement.

(a) Nothing in sections 38a-702a to 38a-702r, inclusive, shall be construed to require an insurer to obtain an insurance producer license. As used in this section, “insurer” does not include an insurer's officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries or affiliates.

(b) A license as an insurance producer shall not be required of the following: (1) An officer, director or employee of an insurer or of an insurance producer, provided the officer, director or employee does not receive any commission on policies written or sold to insure risks residing, located or to be performed in this state and (A) the officer's, director's or employee's activities are executive, administrative, managerial, clerical or a combination thereof, and are only indirectly related to the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance; or (B) the officer's, director's or employee's functions relate to underwriting, loss control, inspection or the processing, adjusting, investigating or settling of a claim on a contract of insurance; or (C) the officer, director or employee is acting in the capacity of a special agent or agency supervisor assisting insurance producers where the person's activities are limited to providing technical advice and assistance to licensed insurance producers and do not include the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance; (2) a person who (A) secures and furnishes information for the purpose of (i) group life insurance, group property and casualty insurance, group annuities, group or blanket accident and health insurance, (ii) enrolling individuals under plans, or (iii) issuing certificates under plans or otherwise assisting in administering plans; or (B) performs administrative services related to mass marketed property and casualty insurance; provided no commission is paid to the person for the services performed under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this subdivision; (3) an employer or association or its officers, directors, employees, or the trustees of an employee trust plan, to the extent that the employer, association officer, employee, director or trustee is engaged in the administration or operation of a program of employee benefits for the employer's or association's own employees or the employees of its subsidiaries or affiliates, which program involves the use of insurance issued by an insurer, provided the employer, association, officer, director, employee or trustee is not in any manner compensated, directly or indirectly, by the company issuing the contracts; (4) an employee of an insurer, or an organization employed by an insurer, that is engaged in the inspection, rating or classification of risks, or in the supervision of the training of insurance producers and who is not individually engaged in the sale, solicitation or negotiation of insurance; (5) a person whose activities in this state are limited to advertising without the intent to solicit insurance in this state through communications in printed publications or other forms of electronic mass media whose distribution is not limited to residents of the state, provided the person does not sell, solicit or negotiate insurance that would insure risks residing, located or to be performed in this state; (6) a person who is not a resident of this state who sells, solicits or negotiates a contract of insurance for commercial property and casualty risks to an insured with risks located in more than one state insured under the contract, provided the person is otherwise licensed as an insurance producer to sell, solicit or negotiate such insurance in the state where the insured maintains its principal place of business and the contract of insurance insures risks located in that state; or (7) a salaried full-time employee who counsels or advises his or her employer relative to the insurance interests of the employer or of the subsidiaries or business affiliates of the employer provided the employee does not sell or solicit insurance or receive a commission.
(P.A. 01-113, S. 3, 42.)
History: P.A. 01-113 effective September 1, 2002.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 38a - Insurance

Chapter 701a - Insurance Producers, Agents and Third-Party Administrators

Section 38a-702. (Formerly Sec. 38-69). - Definitions.

Section 38a-702a. - Definitions.

Section 38a-702b. - Producer license required.

Section 38a-702c. - Exceptions to licensing requirement.

Section 38a-702d. - Examinations. Fees.

Section 38a-702e. - Application for license. Examination. Waiver of examination requirement. Exception for limited lines producers.

Section 38a-702f. - Producer licenses. Reinstatement. Waivers. Notice to commissioner re change in information. Commissioner authorized to contract for performance of ministerial functions re licensing.

Section 38a-702g. - Nonresident licenses.

Section 38a-702h. - Exemption from examination. Requirements for producers in other states who become residents of Connecticut. Waiver of examination for certain chartered underwriters.

Section 38a-702i. - Notice to commissioner re use of assumed name.

Section 38a-702j. - Temporary producer licenses.

Section 38a-702k. - Denial, nonrenewal or revocation of producer licenses. Hearings. Penalties.

Section 38a-702l. - Producer commissions.

Section 38a-702m. - Agent appointments. Fees.

Section 38a-702n. - Reciprocity.

Section 38a-702o. - Producer to report administrative actions and criminal prosecutions to commissioner.

Section 38a-702p. - Regulations.

Section 38a-702q. - Applicability of provisions.

Section 38a-702r. - Construction. Provisions not applicable to bail bond or title insurance.

Section 38a-702s. - Additional grounds for denial of producer licenses.

Section 38a-702t. - Banking Commissioner to provide list of certain registrants and registration denials, suspensions and revocations. Consideration of denial, suspension or revocation for producer license application and current producer licensure....

Section 38a-703. (Formerly Sec. 38-70). - Soliciting business for unlicensed insurance or surety company prohibited.

Section 38a-704. (Formerly Sec. 38-71). - Penalty for acting as insurance producer without license.

Section 38a-705. (Formerly Sec. 38-73). - Exemption of fraternal benefit societies.

Section 38a-706. (Formerly Sec. 38-75). - Sharing commission.

Section 38a-707. (Formerly Sec. 38-75a). - Producer service fees and commissions limited. Exemption for registration under the federal Investment Advisers Act. Disclosures.

Section 38a-707a. - Producer compensation. Disclosure and customer acknowledgment.

Section 38a-707b. - Disclosure of producer fees and compensation upon request of municipality or board of education.

Section 38a-708. (Formerly Sec. 38-76a). - Company to furnish facts relative to termination of agent's appointment. False statement sole grounds for cause of action by agent.

Section 38a-709. (Formerly Sec. 38-76b). - Termination of producer's appointment and contract.

Section 38a-710. (Formerly Sec. 38-76d). - Insurers prohibited from cancelling or amending contract of independent producer solely because of adverse underwriting experience.

Section 38a-711. (Formerly Sec. 38-92). - Payment of commissions to unlicensed persons.

Section 38a-712. (Formerly Sec. 38-92a). - Report of failure of producer to remit premiums and of checks returned for insufficient funds or otherwise dishonored. Suspension of producer license.

Section 38a-713. (Formerly Sec. 38-89). - Signing or countersigning insurance policies in blank. Penalties.

Section 38a-714. (Formerly Sec. 38-90). - Personal liability of person acting on behalf of insurance company not licensed to do business in this state.

Section 38a-715. (Formerly Sec. 38-90a). - Payment by insured to producer as payment to company.

Section 38a-716. (Formerly Sec. 38-90b). - Premium advancing by producer. Cancellation of policy.

Section 38a-717. (Formerly Sec. 38-91). - Payment of commissions to producers.

Section 38a-718. (Formerly Sec. 38-76c). - Restrictions on negotiation of insurance incidental to extension of credit.

Section 38a-720. - Definitions.

Section 38a-720a. - License. Exemptions. Written agreement required.

Section 38a-720b. - Payments of premiums or charges to a third-party administrator.

Section 38a-720c. - Maintenance of and access to books and records. Examination, audit and inspection. Confidentiality of information.

Section 38a-720d. - Advertising.

Section 38a-720e. - Responsibilities of insurer or other person utilizing a third-party administrator.

Section 38a-720f. - Collection of premiums or charges. Payment of claims.

Section 38a-720g. - Compensation prohibitions.

Section 38a-720h. - Disclosures.

Section 38a-720i. - Delivery of written communications to insureds.

Section 38a-720j. - Surety bond required. Audited annual financial statements in lieu of bond. Application. License renewal.

Section 38a-720k. - Registration of certain persons not required to be licensed as third-party administrator.

Section 38a-720l. - License renewal filing.

Section 38a-720m. - Suspension or revocation of license.

Section 38a-720n. - Regulations.