Vermont Statutes
Chapter 121 - Fraternal Benefit Societies
§ 4499. Discrimination and rebates

§ 4499. Discrimination and rebates
(a) No society doing business in this State shall make or permit any unfair discrimination between insured members of the same class and equal expectation of life in the premiums charged for certificates of insurance, in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon or in any other of the terms and conditions of the contracts it makes.
(b) No society, by itself, or any other party, and no agent or solicitor, personally, or by any other party, may offer, promise, allow, give, set off, or pay, directly or indirectly, any valuable consideration or inducement to, or for insurance, on any risk authorized to be taken by the society, which is not specified in the certificate. No member may receive or accept, directly or indirectly, any rebate of premium, or part thereof, or agent’s or solicitor’s commission thereon, payable on any certificate or receive or accept any favor or advantage or share in the dividends or other benefits to accrue on, or any valuable consideration or inducement not specified in the contract of insurance. (Added 1959, No. 197, § 39, eff. Nov. 22, 1959.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 8 - Banking and Insurance

Chapter 121 - Fraternal Benefit Societies

§ 4460. Statutory purposes

§ 4461. Fraternal benefit societies defined

§ 4462. Lodge system defined

§ 4463. Representative form of government defined

§ 4464. Organization

§ 4465. Corporate powers retained

§ 4466. Existing voluntary associations; may incorporate

§ 4467. Location of office; place of meeting

§ 4468. Consolidations and mergers

§ 4469. Conversion of fraternal benefit society into mutual life insurance company

§ 4470. Qualifications for membership

§ 4471. Articles of incorporation, constitution, and laws; amendments

§ 4472. Institutions

§ 4473. No personal liability

§ 4474. Benefits

§ 4475. Benefits on lives of children

§ 4476. Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans, and other options

§ 4477. Beneficiaries

§ 4478. Benefits not attachable

§ 4479. The contract

§ 4480. Provisions, standard and prohibited

§ 4481. Accident and health insurance and total and permanent disability insurance certificates; filing and approval

§ 4482. Waiver

§ 4483. Reinsurance

§ 4484. Annual license

§ 4485. Foreign or alien society; admission

§ 4486. Injunction; liquidation; receivership of domestic society

§ 4487. Suspension, revocation or refusal of license of foreign or alien society

§ 4488. Licensing of agents

§ 4489. Service of process

§ 4490. Injunction

§ 4491. Review

§ 4492. Funds

§ 4493. Investments

§ 4494. Reports and valuations

§ 4495. Examination of domestic societies

§ 4496. Examination of foreign and alien societies

§ 4497. No adverse publications

§ 4498. Misrepresentation

§ 4499. Discrimination and rebates

§ 4500. Taxation

§ 4501. Exemptions

§ 4502. Exemption of certain societies

§ 4503. Penalties