A. A limited lines producer may receive qualification for a license in one or more of the following categories:

1. Prepaid legal liability insurance, which means the assumption of an enforceable contractual obligation to provide specified legal services or to reimburse policyholders for specified legal expenses, pursuant to the provisions of a group or individual policy;

2. Crop - insurance providing protection against damage to crops from unfavorable weather conditions, fire or lightning, flood, hail, insect infestation, disease or other yield-reducing conditions or perils provided by the private insurance market, or that is subsidized by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, including Multi-Peril Crop Insurance;

3. Car rental - insurance offered, sold or solicited in connection with and incidental to the rental of rental cars for a period of two (2) years, whether at the rental office or by preselection of coverage in master, corporate, group or individual agreements that:

a.is nontransferable,

b.applies only to the rental car that is the subject of the rental agreement, and

c.is limited to the following kinds of insurance:

(1)personal accident insurance for renters and other rental car occupants, for accidental death or dismemberment, and for medical expenses resulting from an accident that occurs with the rental car during the rental period,

(2)liability insurance that provides protection to the renters and other authorized drivers of a rental car for liability arising from the operation or use of the rental car during the rental period,

(3)personal effects insurance that provides coverage to renters and other vehicle occupants for loss of, or damage to, personal effects in the rental car during the rental period,

(4)roadside assistance and emergency sickness protection insurance, or

(5)any other coverage designated by the Insurance Commissioner.

A car rental limited lines license issued to a rental or leasing company shall authorize any employee or authorized representative of the rental or leasing company to sell or offer coverage at each location at which the rental or leasing company operates. Employees or authorized representatives are not required to be individually licensed;

4. Credit - credit life, credit disability, credit property, credit unemployment, involuntary unemployment, mortgage life, mortgage guaranty, mortgage disability, guaranteed automobile protection insurance, or any other form of insurance offered in connection with an extension of credit that is limited to partially or wholly extinguishing that credit obligation and that is designated by the Insurance Commissioner as limited line credit insurance;

5. Surety - insurance or bond that covers obligations to pay the debts of, or answer for the default of another, including faithlessness in a position of public or private trust. For purpose of limited line licensing, surety does not include surety bail bonds;

6. Travel; and

7. Self-service storage insurance, pursuant to Section 2 of this act.

B. 1. An insurance producer or limited lines producer may solicit applications for and issue travel accident policies or baggage insurance by means of mechanical vending machines supervised by the insurance producer or limited lines producer only if the Insurance Commissioner shall determine that the form of policy to be sold is reasonably suited for sale and issuance through vending machines, that use of vending machines for the sale of policies would be of convenience to the public, and that the type of vending machine to be used is reasonably suitable and practical for the sale and issuance of policies. Policies so sold do not have to be countersigned.

2. The Commissioner shall issue to the insurance agent or limited insurance representative a special vending machine license for each such machine to be used. The license shall specify the name and address of the insurer and licensee, the kind of insurance and type of policy to be sold, and the place where the machine is to be in operation. The license shall expire, be renewable, and be suspended or revoked coincidentally with the insurance agent license or limited representative license of the licensee. The license fee for each vending machine shall be that stated in the provisions of Section 1435.23 of this title. Proof of existence of the license shall be displayed on or about each machine in such manner as the Commissioner may reasonably require.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 418, § 60, eff. Nov. 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 36, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 1999, c. 333, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 353, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 156, § 20, eff. Nov. 1, 2001. Renumbered from § 1424.11 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 156, § 35, eff. Nov. 1, 2001. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 150, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2003; Laws 2008, c. 184, § 12, eff. July 1, 2008; Laws 2013, c. 224, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2014, c. 145, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014; Laws 2018, c. 159, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2019, c. 263, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.