2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 36. Insurance
§36-1462. Life or accident and health insurance broker defined - Liability.
A. For purposes of the Oklahoma Life, Accident and Health Insurance Broker Act, "life or accident and health insurance broker" means an individual or legal entity who, for compensation, not being a licensed life or accident and health insurance agent or agency for the company in which a policy of life or accident and health insurance is placed, acts or aids in any manner in negotiating contracts of life or accident and health insurance or placing risks or effecting life or accident and health insurance for a party other than himself or herself. An individual or legal entity not licensed as a life or accident and health insurance broker who solicits a policy of life or accident and health insurance on behalf of others or transmits for others an application for a policy of life or accident and health insurance to or from an insurance company or offers or assumes to act in the negotiations of said life or accident and health insurance shall be a life or accident and health insurance broker for the purposes of the Oklahoma Life, Accident and Health Insurance Broker Act and shall be liable for all the duties, requirements, liabilities, and penalties to which said licensed life or accident and health insurance brokers are subject.
B. Insurers for whom a life or accident and health insurance broker acts shall be liable for said life or accident and health insurance broker's actions as if said life or accident and health insurance broker were directly employed by the insurer.
Added by Laws 1983, c. 165, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1983. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 418, § 85, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.
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