2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 75 - PROPERTY, CASUALTY, AND TITLE INSURANCE GENERALLY
Section 38-75-960 - Financial interest in title insurer or agent.

(A) No title insurer or title insurance agent may accept an order for, issue a title insurance policy to, or provide services to an applicant if it knows or has reason to believe that the applicant was referred to it by any producer of title business or by any associate of the producer where the producer, the associate, or both, have a financial interest in the title insurer or title agent to which business is referred unless the producer has disclosed to the buyer, seller, or lender the financial interest of the producer of title business or associate referring the title business. The disclosure must be made in writing on forms prescribed by the director or his designee. The title insurer or agent shall maintain the disclosure forms for a period of three years.

(B) Each title insurer and title agent shall file with the department, on forms prescribed by the director or his designee, reports setting forth the names and addresses of those persons, if any, who have had a financial interest in the title insurer or title agent during the calendar year who are known or reasonably believed by the title insurer or title agent to be producers of title business or associates of producers.

(1) Each title insurer shall file the report required under this subsection with its application for a license and at any time there is a change in the information provided in the last report.

(2) Each title agent shall file the report required under this subsection with its application for license and at any time there is a change in the information provided in its last report.

(3) Each title insurer or title agent licensed on the effective date of this act, shall file the report required under this subsection within ninety days after the effective date of this act.

HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 562; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 799.