33-16-222. Requirement for rate reduction. (1) Any rates, rating schedules, or rating manuals for liability, bodily injury, or collision coverages of a motor vehicle insurance policy filed with the insurance department must provide for an appropriate premium reduction as determined by the insurer for an insured operator of a covered vehicle who is 55 years of age or older and who has successfully completed a highway traffic safety program as provided by 61-2-102 and 61-2-103.
(2) In addition to providing a premium reduction, an insurer may reimburse the fee for participating in the highway traffic safety program.
(3) The premium reduction used by the insurer is presumed appropriate unless credible data demonstrates otherwise.
History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 49, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 469, L. 2005.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 33. Insurance and Insurance Companies
Chapter 16. Rates -- Rating and Advisory Organizations
Part 2. Rates and Rating Plans
33-16-201. Standards applicable to rates
33-16-202. Recording and reporting of loss and expense experience
33-16-204. Review of rates on request by aggrieved person
33-16-205. Noncompliance of rates -- notice
33-16-206. Hearings -- notice -- subject of hearing
33-16-207. through 33-16-210 reserved
33-16-211. Order prohibiting use of rate or rating system
33-16-212. through 33-16-220 reserved
33-16-222. Requirement for rate reduction
33-16-223. Effective period of reduction
33-16-225. When discount not applicable
33-16-226. through 33-16-229 reserved
33-16-230. Rate reduction for military defensive drivers -- effective period -- exclusions