(a) An officer or director, or a member of a committee or an employee of a domestic insurer who is charged with the duty of investing or handling the insurer's funds may not deposit or invest the funds except in the insurer's corporate name; may not borrow the funds of the insurer; may not be pecuniarily interested in a loan, pledge of deposit, security, investment, sale, purchase, exchange, reinsurance, or other similar transaction or property of the insurer except as a stockholder or member; and may not take or receive to personal use a fee, brokerage, commission, gift, or other consideration for or on account of a transaction made by or on behalf of the insurer.

(b) An insurer may not guarantee a financial obligation of any of its officers or directors.

(c) This section does not prohibit a director or officer, or member of a committee or employee from becoming a policyholder of the insurer and enjoying the usual rights provided for its policyholders.

(d) The director may, by regulations from time to time, define and permit additional exceptions to the prohibition contained in (a) of this section solely to enable payment of reasonable compensation to a director who is not otherwise an officer or employee of the insurer, or to a corporation or firm in which a director is interested, for necessary services performed or sales or purchases made to or for the insurer in the ordinary course of the insurer's business and in the usual private professional or business capacity of the director or the corporation or firm.