An administrator, in order to induce a person that self insures or a plan or insurance carrier to contract or to continue to contract with the administrator, to induce a person that self insures or an insurance carrier or plan to lapse, forfeit or surrender a service contract entered into with an administrator or to induce a person that self insures or an insurance carrier or plan to secure or terminate coverage with an insurance carrier or other person that self insures, shall not directly or indirectly:

A. offer to make an agreement relating to a service contract or issue or deliver to the person money or any other valuable consideration other than as plainly expressed in the service contract;

B. give or pay or offer to give or pay a rebate or adjustment of the fee payable under the service contract or an advantage under a service contract, except as reflected in the fee and expressly provided by the service contract;

C. make, issue or circulate, or cause to be made, issued or circulated, any estimate, illustration, circular or statement misrepresenting the terms of a service contract, the advantages provided under a service contract or the true nature of a service contract; or

D. make a misrepresentation in a comparison, whether oral or written, between service contracts of the administrator and another administrator or between service contracts of the administrator and an insurance carrier.

History: 1978 Comp., § 59A-12A-15, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 374, § 15.