(a) Each licensee shall make submissions as are required by the Department of Insurance to enable the department to determine the nature and extent of the licensee’s efforts to actively compete in each county in which it transacts its business. The licensee shall maintain records of its title orders sufficient to indicate the source of the title orders.
(b) Competitive behavior shall be measured by the source of closed title orders in each county in which the licensee engages in the title business and by the entity’s progress toward meeting the 50 percent objective specified in Section 12397, as indicated in the annual, verified report filed pursuant to subdivision (c).
(c) Within 90 days following the end of each business year, as established by the licensee, each licensee shall file with the commissioner, and any title insurer with which the licensee maintains an underwriting agreement, a verified report executed by the licensee’s chief executive officer or his or her designee under penalty of perjury, stating the percent of closed title orders for each county originating from controlled and noncontrolled business sources. Each title insurer that maintains an underwriting agreement with another licensee shall, within 30 days after receipt of this report, file with the commissioner a verified statement, signed by the licensee’s chief executive officer or by his or her designee under penalty of perjury, that the report is substantially correct or that insufficient information is contained in the report to enable an opinion to be formed concerning the correctness of the report.
(d) Upon receipt by the department of a verified statement, signed under penalty of perjury, that less than 5 percent of the business a licensee transacts emanates from controlled business sources, the licensee shall be relieved of further reporting under this article, but shall be subject to reporting under subdivision (c) at any time that 5 percent or more of the business which the licensee transacts emanates from controlled business sources.
(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 344, Sec. 1.)
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