(a) A fraud warning shall be included on at least one of the following: Claim release forms, applications, reinstatements for insurance, participation agreements, declaration pages, and claim documents, regardless of the method or form of transmission and shall contain the following statement or a substantially similar statement:
"Any person who knowingly presents a false or fraudulent claim for payment of a loss or benefit or who knowingly presents false information in an application for insurance is guilty of a crime and may be subject to restitution, fines, or confinement in prison, or any combination thereof."
(b) The lack of a statement required by subsection (a) shall not constitute a defense in any prosecution for insurance fraud.
(c) Policies issued by unauthorized insurers shall contain a statement disclosing the status of the insurer to do business in the state where the policy is delivered or issued for delivery or the state where coverage is in force.
(d) Insurers shall comply with subsection (a) not later than February 1, 2013.
(e) This section does not require notice to persons insured under existing policies, except to the extent the persons receive, after August 1, 2012, a document listed in subsection (a) which has been selected by the insurer to contain the fraud warning.
(f) None of the requirements of this section shall be deemed to apply to reinsurers, reinsurance contracts, reinsurance agreements, or reinsurance claims transacted.
(g) As used in this section, insurer refers only to those entities defined in Section 27-12A-1(5) which hold a certificate of authority from the commissioner, and unauthorized insurers refers only to those entities operating pursuant to Article 2, beginning with Section 27-10-20, of Chapter 10.
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