26-49-110. Enforcement provisions.
(a) The commissioner may conduct examinations of providers, administrators, insurers or other persons to enforce this article and protect service contract holders in this state. Upon request of the commissioner, the provider shall make all accounts, books and records concerning service contracts sold by the provider available to the commissioner which are necessary to enable the commissioner to reasonably determine compliance or noncompliance with this article.
(b) The commissioner may take action which is necessary or appropriate to enforce the provisions of this article and the commissioner s regulations and orders, and to protect service contract holders in this state.
(c) If a provider has violated this article or the commissioner s regulations or orders, the commissioner may issue an order directed to that provider to cease and desist from committing violations of this article or the commissioner s regulations or orders; may issue an order prohibiting that provider from selling or offering for sale service contracts in violation of this article; or may issue an order imposing a civil penalty on that provider; or any combination of the foregoing, as applicable. A person aggrieved by an order issued under this section may request a hearing before the commissioner pursuant to W.S. 26-2-125.
(d) The commissioner may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction, for an injunction or other appropriate relief to enjoin threatened or existing violations of this article or of the commissioner s orders or regulations. An action filed under this section also may seek restitution on behalf of persons aggrieved by a violation of this article or orders or regulations of the commissioner.
(e) A person who is found to have violated this article or orders or regulation of the commissioner may be ordered to pay to the commissioner a civil penalty in an amount determined by the commissioner of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) per violation and no more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) in the aggregate for all violations of a similar nature. For purposes of this section, violations shall be of a similar nature if the violation consists of the same or similar course of conduct, action or practice, irrespective of the number of times the act, conduct or practice which is determined to be a violation of this article occurred.
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