As used in this chapter and chapter 702, unless the context or subject matter otherwise require:

(1) “Agent” or “insurance agent” means an insurance producer appointed by an insurer to act on the insurer’s behalf pursuant to section 38a-702m.

(2) “Business entity” means a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity.

(3) “Commissioner” means the Insurance Commissioner.

(4) “Home state” means any state or territory of the United States, including, but not limited to, the District of Columbia, in which an insurance producer maintains the producer’s principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer.

(5) “Insurance” means any of the lines of authority contained in this title.

(6) “Insurance producer” or “producer” means a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit or negotiate insurance.

(7) “Insurer” has the same meaning as provided in section 38a-1.

(8) “License” means a document issued by the commissioner authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. The license itself does not create any authority, actual, apparent or inherent, in the holder to represent or commit an insurance carrier.

(9) “Limited line credit insurance” includes credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile protection insurance and any other form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation that the commissioner determines should be designated a form of limited line credit insurance.

(10) “Limited line credit insurance producer” means a person who sells, solicits or negotiates one or more forms of limited line credit insurance coverage to individuals through a master, corporate, group or individual policy.

(11) “Limited lines insurance” means credit insurance and travel insurance, or any other line of insurance that the commissioner deems necessary to recognize for the purpose of complying with section 38a-702g.

(12) “Limited lines producer” means a person authorized by the commissioner to sell, solicit or negotiate limited lines insurance.

(13) “Negotiate” means the act of conferring directly with, or offering advice directly to, a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a particular contract of insurance concerning any of the substantive benefits, terms or conditions of the contract, provided the person engaged in that act either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers.

(14) “Person” means an individual or a business entity.

(15) “Sell” means to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurance company.

(16) “Solicit” means attempting to sell insurance or asking or urging a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular company.

(17) “Terminate” means the cancellation of the relationship between an insurance producer and the insurer or the termination of a producer’s authority to transact insurance.

(18) “Uniform business entity application” means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners uniform business entity application for resident and nonresident business entities, as amended from time to time.

(19) “Uniform application” means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners uniform application for resident and nonresident producer licensing, as amended from time to time.

(P.A. 01-113, S. 1, 42; P.A. 17-15, S. 80.)

History: P.A. 01-113 effective September 1, 2002; P.A. 17-15 made technical changes in Subdivs. (7) and (11).