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      Sec. 38a-880. Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund. The Insurance Department shall establish and maintain a Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund from which any resident aggrieved by an action of an insurance producer duly licensed in this state under section 38a-769, or an unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, concerning the business of insurance, by reason of the embezzlement of money or property, or the unlawful obtainment of money or property from any person by false pretenses, artifice, trickery or forgery, or by reason of any fraud, misrepresentation or deceit, by or on the part of any such producer or unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, excluding the failure in performance of contractual obligations due to the impairment of an insurer, may recover, upon approval by the department of an application brought pursuant to section 38a-884, compensation in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars.

      (P.A. 89-106, S. 1; P.A. 93-236, S. 1; P.A. 96-193, S. 24, 36.)

      History: P.A. 93-236 clarified that an "unlicensed person" would be a person acting as an insurance agent or broker, allowed payment from the guaranty fund except in cases when the insurer is impaired and decreased the compensation allowed from the guaranty fund from $25,000 to $10,000; P.A. 96-193 substituted "producer" for "agent" and "broker", effective June 3, 1996.

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      Sec. 38a-880. Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund. The Insurance Department shall establish and maintain a Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund from which any resident aggrieved by an action of an insurance producer duly licensed in this state under section 38a-769, or an unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, concerning the business of insurance, by reason of the embezzlement of money or property, or the unlawful obtainment of money or property from any person by false pretenses, artifice, trickery or forgery, or by reason of any fraud, misrepresentation or deceit, by or on the part of any such producer or unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, excluding the failure in performance of contractual obligations due to the impairment of an insurer, may recover, upon approval by the department of an application brought pursuant to section 38a-884, compensation in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars.

      (P.A. 89-106, S. 1; P.A. 93-236, S. 1; P.A. 96-193, S. 24, 36.)

      History: P.A. 93-236 clarified that an "unlicensed person" would be a person acting as an insurance agent or broker, allowed payment from the guaranty fund except in cases when the insurer is impaired and decreased the compensation allowed from the guaranty fund from $25,000 to $10,000; P.A. 96-193 substituted "producer" for "agent" and "broker", effective June 3, 1996.

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      Sec. 38a-880. Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund. The Insurance Department shall establish and maintain a Brokered Transactions Guaranty Fund from which any resident aggrieved by an action of an insurance producer duly licensed in this state under section 38a-769, or an unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, concerning the business of insurance, by reason of the embezzlement of money or property, or the unlawful obtainment of money or property from any person by false pretenses, artifice, trickery or forgery, or by reason of any fraud, misrepresentation or deceit, by or on the part of any such producer or unlicensed person acting as a producer engaged in the business of insurance, excluding the failure in performance of contractual obligations due to the impairment of an insurer, may recover, upon approval by the department of an application brought pursuant to section 38a-884, compensation in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars.

      (P.A. 89-106, S. 1; P.A. 93-236, S. 1; P.A. 96-193, S. 24, 36.)

      History: P.A. 93-236 clarified that an "unlicensed person" would be a person acting as an insurance agent or broker, allowed payment from the guaranty fund except in cases when the insurer is impaired and decreased the compensation allowed from the guaranty fund from $25,000 to $10,000; P.A. 96-193 substituted "producer" for "agent" and "broker", effective June 3, 1996.