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      Sec. 38a-710. (Formerly Sec. 38-76d). Insurers prohibited from cancelling or amending contract of independent producer solely because of adverse underwriting experience. No company shall cancel or amend the contract of an independent insurance producer for property or casualty insurance, solely because of adverse underwriting experience for the two years preceding the date of such cancellation or amendment on such lines of insurance for which the company requires submission of an application for approval or for which the company accepts without approval policies issued by its appointed producers, if the information on any such application or on the company copy of any policy issued by an appointed producer is substantially complete and not intentionally or substantially incorrect or misleading. In calculating the average loss ratio for purposes of determining adverse underwriting experience for such preceding two years, reserves against claims pending shall not be included.

      (P.A. 79-277; P.A. 90-243, S. 33; P.A. 92-53, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-193, S. 16, 36.)

      History: P.A. 90-243 substituted "property" for "fire" insurance; Sec. 38-76d transferred to Sec. 38a-710 in 1991; P.A. 92-53 prohibited amending the contract of an independent insurance agent because of adverse underwriting experience; P.A. 96-193 substituted "producer" for "agent" and "appointed" for "licensed", effective June 3, 1996.

      See Sec. 38a-709 re termination of producer's appointment and agency contracts.