§ 27-44-10. Insurers and rating and advisory organizations - Prohibited activity. (a) No insurer or rating or advisory organization shall attempt to monopolize or combine or conspire with any other person to monopolize an insurance market.
(b)(1) No insurer shall agree with any other insurer or with any rating or advisory organization to adhere to or to use any rate, rating plan, rating schedule, rating rule, policy or bond forms, rate classifications, rate territories, underwriting rules, surveys, inspections, or similar materials, except as needed to develop statistical plans permitted by this chapter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to any pools;
(2) The fact that two (2) or more insurers, whether or not members or subscribers of a rating organization, use consistently or intermittently, the same rates, rating plans, rating schedules, rating rules, policy or bond forms, rate classifications, rate territories, underwriting rules, surveys or inspections, or similar materials is not sufficient in itself to support a finding that an agreement exists, and may be used only for the purpose of supplementing or explaining other evidence of the existence of an agreement;
(3) Two (2) or more insurers having a common ownership or operating in this state under common management or control may act in concert between or among themselves with respect to any matters pertaining to those activities authorized in this chapter as if they constituted a single insurer.
(c) No insurer or rating or advisory organization shall make any arrangement with any other insurer, rating or advisory organization, or other person which has the purpose or effect of restraining trade unreasonably or of substantially lessening competition in the business of insurance.
(d) No advisory organization shall engage in any unfair or unreasonable practice. If after a hearing the director finds that any activity or practice of an advisory organization is unfair, unreasonable, or inconsistent with the requirements of this chapter, the director shall specify the finding in an order requiring the discontinuance of the activity or practice.
History of Section. (P.L. 1988, ch. 635, § 1.)
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