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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="13-110" title_number="13" title_name="Credit Life, Health, and Involuntary Unemployment Benefit Insurance" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each form for a policy, certificate of insurance, notice of proposed insurance, application for insurance, endorsement, or rider delivered or issued for delivery in the State and each related schedule of premium rates shall be filed with the Commissioner for approval.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 60 days after a form or premium rate described in subsection (a) of this section is filed, the Commissioner shall disapprove the filing if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the table of premium rates appears by reasonable assumptions to be excessive in relation to benefits; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the form contains provisions that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>are unjust, unfair, inequitable, misleading, or deceptive;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>encourage misrepresentation of the coverage; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>are contrary to a provision of this article or a regulation adopted under this article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In making a determination under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Commissioner shall consider:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>past and prospective loss experience within and outside the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>underwriting practice and judgment to the extent appropriate;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a reasonable margin for underwriting profit and contingencies;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>past and prospective expenses, whether countrywide or specially applicable to the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>all other relevant factors within and outside the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the Commissioner disapproves a form or premium rate, the Commissioner shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>notify the insurer of the disapproval and specify in the notice the reason for disapproval; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>state that a hearing on the disapproval will be held within 20 days after receipt of a written request by the insurer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>After notification of disapproval, an insurer may not issue or use the disapproved form or premium rate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An insurer may not issue or use a form or premium rate filed under this section until the end of the 60–day period unless the Commissioner approves the filing in writing before the end of the period.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commissioner may withdraw approval of a form or premium rate if the Commissioner:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>notifies the insurer in writing of the proposed withdrawal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>specifies in the notice the reason for withdrawal;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>states that a hearing on the withdrawal will be held not less than 20 days after the date of the notice; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>bases the withdrawal of approval on a ground set forth in subsection (b)(1) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An insurer may not issue or use a form or premium rate after the effective date of withdrawal of approval by the Commissioner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a group policy of credit life insurance, credit health insurance, or credit involuntary unemployment benefit insurance was delivered in the State before April 28, 1970, or is delivered in another state, the insurer shall file with the Commissioner only the group certificate and notice of proposed insurance that have been delivered or issued for delivery in this State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commissioner shall approve the group certificate and notice of proposed insurance if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the group certificate and notice conform with §§ 13-108(b) and 13-109(b) of this title; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the schedule of premium rates for the group insurance does not exceed the schedule of premium rates that the insurer has filed with the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The purpose of this subsection is to ensure that the credit life insurance, credit health insurance, or credit involuntary unemployment benefit insurance operations of the insurer do not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>result in rates that are excessive in relation to benefits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>endanger the solvency of the insurer so that its transaction of business is hazardous to its policyholders or the public; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>adversely affect another class of business of the insurer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To accomplish this purpose, the Commissioner may establish:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the maximum rates of commission or other compensation that may be paid to insurance producers; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>standards for the maximum amounts of dividends, retrospective rate credits, and any other form of refund or benefit to policyholders.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>An order of the Commissioner under this section is subject to judicial review in accordance with § 2-215 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
