2010 Tennessee Code
Title 56 - Insurance
Chapter 5 - Rates and Rating Organizations
Part 3 - General Provisions
56-5-313 - Agreements between insurers or with other organizations Application for deductible plan.

56-5-313. Agreements between insurers or with other organizations Application for deductible plan.

(a)  Except as provided in this chapter, no insurer may agree with any other insurer or with a rate service organization or an advisory organization to adhere to or use any rate or supplementary rate information. The fact that any insurer adheres to or uses the material is not sufficient in itself to support a finding that an agreement to adhere or use exists but may be used for the purpose of supplementing other evidence as to the existence of the agreement. Two (2) or more insurers having common ownership or operating in this state under common management or control may act in concert between or among themselves in the same manner as if they constitute a single insurer.

(b)  Any workers' compensation insurer may make written application to the commissioner for approval on its behalf of a deductible plan where the insurer can be reimbursed by the policyholder, effective for a period of not less than one (1) year, to be applied to the rates or premiums, or both, produced by the rating system. The application shall specify the basis for the modification and a copy of the application shall also be sent simultaneously to the rate service organization. The commissioner shall approve the modification for the insurer if the commissioner finds it to be justified. The commissioner shall not approve the modification if the commissioner finds that the resulting premiums would be excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory.

[Acts 1983, ch. 66, § 14; 1991, ch. 511, § 1; 1996, ch. 944, § 39; 1997, ch. 533, § 12.]