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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="27-405" title_number="27" title_name="Unfair Trade Practices and Other Prohibited Practices" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Fraudulent Insurance Acts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>It is a fraudulent insurance act for a person to act as or represent to the public that the person is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an insurance producer or a public adjuster in the State if the person has not received the appropriate license under or otherwise complied with Title 10 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a navigator of the Small Business Health Options Program of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange if the person has not received the appropriate license under or otherwise complied with § 31–112 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a navigator of the Individual Exchange of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange if the person has not received the appropriate certification under or otherwise complied with § 31–113 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an application counselor certified by the Individual Exchange of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange if the person has not received the appropriate certification under or otherwise complied with § 31–113(r) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>It is a fraudulent insurance act for an insurance producer:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to solicit or take application for, procure, or place for others insurance for which the insurance producer has not obtained an appropriate license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>knowingly to violate § 10–130 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>intentionally to fail to report to an insurer the exact amount of consideration charged as a premium for an insurance contract, if different from the policy premium, and to fail to maintain records that show that information.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
