2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
CHAPTER 69 - INDIVIDUAL ANNUITIES
SECTION 38-69-10. Circulation of false or misleading information by insurers.
No insurer doing business in this State and no officer, director, or agent of it may issue or circulate or cause or permit to be issued or circulated any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement of any sort misrepresenting the terms of any annuity issued by it, the benefits or advantages promised thereby, or the dividends or shares of surplus to be received thereon or may use any name or title of any annuity or class of annuities misrepresenting the true nature thereof. Violation of this section by an agent or officer of an insurer is a misdemeanor. If an insurer violates or participates in the violation of this section, the insurer is subject to the penalty provisions of Section 38-2-10.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 38-9-40 [1947 (45) 322; 1952 Code Section 37-144; 1962 Code Section 37-144] recodified as Section 38-69-10 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1988 Act No. 374, Section 36.
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