2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 77 - AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Section 38-77-845 - Review of applications.

(A) The director or his designee, or the plan manager, may review each application. Applications which are not complete or accurate, or both, shall be considered in violation of Section 38-57-30 and are subject to penalty. The department shall promulgate regulations to enforce this section. Penalties may include suspension of binding authority, fines up to five thousand dollars, and revocation of license.

(B) The director or his designee may review each application and provide such application to other qualified insurers upon request who may provide the insurance in the voluntary market at a rate less than the Associated Auto Insurers Plan rate. In such a case, the producer shall not receive commission on the sale of such policy.

(C) In his review of the agent's or broker's residual market business, the director or his designee may consider whether the insurer, agent, or broker is participating in a pattern of unfair discrimination as provided in Section 38-77-122 and Section 38-77-123.

HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 154, Section 21(A).