2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
CHAPTER 78 - SERVICE CONTRACTS
Section 38-78-60. Provider name restrictions; misleading statements in contracts or literature; purchase of contract as condition of loan.
(A) A provider may not use in its name the words " insurance", "casualty", "guaranty", "surety", "mutual", or any other words descriptive of the insurance, casualty, guaranty, or surety business or a name deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation or any other provider. This section does not apply to a company that was using any of the prohibited language in its name before the effective date of this chapter. However, a company using the prohibited language in its name shall conspicuously include in its service contracts a statement in substantially the following form: "This agreement is not an insurance contract".
(B) A provider or its representative in its service contracts or literature may not make, permit, or cause to be made any false or misleading statement, or deliberately omit any material statement that would be considered misleading if omitted, in connection with the sale, offer to sell, or advertisement of a service contract.
(C) A person such as a bank, savings and loan association, lending institution, manufacturer, or seller of any product shall not require the purchase of a service contract as a condition of a loan or a condition for the sale of any property.
HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 330, Section 2.
