§ 27-46-12. Duty of agents or brokers or insurance producers to obtain license. (a) Risk retention groups. No person, firm, association, or corporation shall act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance in this state from a risk retention group unless that person, firm, association, or corporation is licensed as an insurance agent or broker or producer in accordance with applicable provisions of law.

(b) Purchasing groups. (1) No person, firm, association, or corporation shall act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance in this state for a purchasing group from an authorized insurer or a risk retention group chartered in a state unless that person, firm, association, or corporation is licensed as an insurance agent or broker or producer in accordance with applicable provisions of law;

(2) No person, firm, association, or corporation shall act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance coverage in this state for any member of a purchasing group under a purchasing group's policy unless that person, firm, association, or corporation is licensed as an insurance agent or broker or producer in accordance with applicable provisions of law;

(3) No person, firm, association, or corporation shall act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance from an insurer not authorized to do business in this state on behalf of a purchasing group located in this state unless that person, firm, association, or corporation is licensed as a surplus lines agent or excess line broker in accordance with applicable provisions of law.

(c) Residency. For the purposes of acting as an agent or broker or insurance producer for a risk retention group or purchasing group pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the requirement of residence in this state shall not apply.

(d) Notice requirements. Every person, firm, association, or corporation licensed pursuant to the provisions of law relating to agents or brokers or insurance producers shall inform each prospective insured on business placed with risk retention groups or written through a purchasing group of the provisions of the notice required by § 27-46-4(7) in the case of a risk retention group and § 27-46-9(c) in the case of a purchasing group.

History of Section. (P.L. 1991, ch. 348, § 1.)