# Insurance (GIN)

## Title 8. Entities That Act as Insurers

### Subtitle 3. Third Party Administrators

#### Section 8-318

(a) A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a plan participant or beneficiary:

  (1) for exercising a right to which the participant or beneficiary is entitled under this subtitle; or

  (2) for the purpose of interfering with a right to which the participant or beneficiary may become entitled under this subtitle.

(b) A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a person, whether or not the person is a plan participant or beneficiary, because the person:

  (1) has given information or testified in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle; or

  (2) is about to give information or testify in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle.

(c) A person may not, by fraud, force, violence, or the threat of force or violence, restrain, coerce, or intimidate or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate a plan participant or beneficiary for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of a right to which the plan participant or beneficiary is or may become entitled under this subtitle.

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Md. Code Ann., Ins. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)