26-24-128. Management and exclusive agency contracts.
(a) No domestic insurer shall make any contract in which any person is granted or is to enjoy in fact the management of the insurer to the substantial exclusion of its board of directors, or to have the controlling or preemptive right to produce substantially all insurance business for the insurer, or, if an officer, director or otherwise part of the insurer's management, is to receive any commission, bonus or compensation based upon the volume of the insurer's business or transactions, unless the contract is filed with and approved by the commissioner. The contract is approved unless disapproved by the commissioner within twenty (20) days from the date of filing, subject to any reasonable time extension the commissioner requires by notice given within the twenty (20) days. Any disapproval shall be delivered to the insurer in writing, stating the grounds for the disapproval.
(b) Any contract specified in subsection (a) of this section shall provide that any manager or producer of its business, within ninety (90) days after expiration of each calendar year, shall furnish the insurer's board of directors a written statement of amounts received under or on account of the contract and amounts expended thereunder during the calendar year, including the emoluments received therefrom by the directors, officers and other principal management personnel of the manager or producer, and with any classification of items and further detail as the insurer's board of directors reasonably requires.
(c) The commissioner shall disapprove any contract specified in this section if he finds that it:
(i) Subjects the insured to excessive charges;
(ii) Is to extend for an unreasonable length of time;
(iii) Does not contain fair and adequate standards of performance; or
(iv) Contains other inequitable provisions or provisions which impair the proper interests of stockholders or policyholders of the insurer.
(d) The commissioner, after a hearing held thereon, may withdraw his approval of any contract he approved, if he finds that the basis of his original approval no longer exists, or that the contract, in actual operation, is subject to disapproval on any of the grounds referred to in subsection (c) of this section.
(e) This section does not apply to contracts entered into prior to January 1, 1968, nor to extensions or amendments to those contracts.
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