1. Except as otherwise provided in chapter 685A of NRS, a purchasing group shall not purchase insurance from an unauthorized insurer or a risk retention group that is not chartered or registered in this state.
2. A purchasing group is exempt from any law of this state that relates to the formation or prohibition of groups for the purchase of insurance, and any law that would discriminate against a purchasing group or its members.
3. An insurer is exempt from any law of this state that prohibits providing, or offering to provide, to a purchasing group or its members advantages based on their loss and expense experiences not afforded to other persons with respect to rates, policy forms, coverages or other matters.
4. A purchasing group that obtains liability insurance from a surplus lines insurer or a risk retention group shall inform each of the members of the purchasing group which have a risk resident or located in this state that the risk is not protected by an insurance insolvency guaranty fund in this state, and that the risk retention group or insurer may not be subject to all insurance laws and regulations of this state.
5. No purchasing group may purchase insurance providing for a deductible or self-insured retention applicable to the group as a whole, but the coverage may provide for a deductible or self-insured retention applicable to individual members of the group.
6. Purchases of insurance by purchasing groups are subject to the same standards regarding aggregate limits which are applicable to all purchases of group insurance.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1330; A 1995, 1782; 2009, 1819)
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