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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-83 > 24 > 83-24-45§ 83-24-45. Agent of insurer; duties following notice of liquidation; penalties.
(1) Every person who receives notice in the form prescribed in Section 83-24-43 that an insurer which he represents as an agent is the subject of a liquidation order shall, within thirty (30) days of such notice provide to the liquidator (in addition to the information he may be required to provide pursuant to Section 83-24-13) the information in the agent's records related to any policy issued by the insurer through the agent, and, if the agent is a general agent, the information in the general agent's records related to any policy issued by the insurer through an agent under contract to him, including the name and address of such subagent. A policy shall be deemed issued through an agent if the agent has a property interest in the expiration of the policy, or if the agent has had in his possession a copy of the declarations of the policy at any time during the life of the policy, except where the ownership of the expiration of the policy has been transferred to another.
(2) Any agent failing to provide information to the liquidator as required in subsection (1) may be subject to payment of a penalty of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) and may have his licenses suspended after a hearing held by the commissioner.
Sources: Laws, 1991, ch. 417, § 23, eff from and after passage (approved March 20, 1991).
