Sec. 2019. The following are defined as unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance: Making or permitting any unfair discrimination between individuals of the same class and equal expectation of life in the rates charged for any contract of life insurance or of life annuity or in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon, or in any other of the terms and conditions of such contract.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2019
Unfair methods of competition or deception; unfair discrimination in life insurance
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 149 Mich. App. 481 - Bell v. League Life Insurance (1986)
Most recently applied in 49 F. App'x 36 - Makki v. Farmers New World Life Insurance (October 2002)
1956, Act 218, Eff
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