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Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-7-502

Contingent and mortality endowment contracts — Promising particular number or position in class or to division to policyholder prohibited — Penalty

Known as the Tennessee Insurance Law

The act spans §§ 56-10-101 to 56-8-206 (1,220 sections).

Acts 1939, ch. 31, § 2; mod

(1) No agent or organizer of any life insurance company, fraternal benefit society, order or association referred to in § 56-7-501 shall promise any particular number or position in class or division to any existing policyholder of contingent or mortality endowment contracts, as described in § 56-7-501.

(2) For violation of this section, agents shall be subject to revocation of license or shall pay a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) on each individual violation, following a hearing before the commissioner; and, in the commissioner's discretion, the company that the agent represents shall be liable, following repeated violations by its agents operating in this state, to a fine not exceeding a total of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) in the commissioner's discretion following a hearing.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.