10430-10436

INSURANCE CODE
SECTION 10430-10436




10430.  An admitted life insurer shall not issue or deliver in this
State, any securities or any special or advisory board or other
contracts of any kind promising returns and profits as an inducement
to insurance nor shall it permit its agents, officers or employees to
do so.



10431.  A life insurer which, as an inducement to insurance, issues
or permits its agents, officers, or employees to issue any such
securities or contracts in this State or any other State shall not be
admitted.


10432.  A corporation or stock company, acting as agent of a life
insurer and its agents, officers, or employees shall not sell, agree
or offer to sell, or give or offer to give, directly or indirectly,
any such securities or contracts as an inducement to insurance or in
connection therewith.


10433.  Upon proof, after notice and hearing, that any such insurer
or agent has violated any of the provisions of sections 10430, 10431,
or 10432, the commissioner shall revoke the certificate of authority
or license of the insurer or agent so offending.



10434.  (a) An admitted life insurer shall not pay or contract to
pay, directly or indirectly, to any of the parties specified in
subdivision (b) any commission or other compensation contingent upon
any of the following acts:
   (1) The writing or procuring of any policy of life, disability or
both classes of insurance issued by the insurer.
   (2) Procuring an application therefor by any person.
   (3) The payment of any renewal premium or the assumption of any
life, disability or both of these classes of insurance by the
insurer.
   (b) It shall not pay this compensation to:
   (1) Its president.
   (2) Its vice president.
   (3) Its secretary.
   (4) Its treasurer.
   (5) Its actuary.
   (6) Its medical director or other physician charged with the duty
of examining risks or applications for any of these classes of
insurance.
   (7) Any member of its board of directors, except when that
compensation to be paid to the director would be less than the lesser
of 1 percent of the insurer's statutory net gain from operations or
1 percent of commissions on premiums and annuity considerations for
the preceding calendar year. This exception shall not apply when more
than two of the members of the board of directors of the insurer,
when the total number of board members is more than 10, or more than
one of the members of the board of directors of the insurer, when the
total number of board members is less than 10, would receive that
compensation, nor shall this exception apply to any director who has
served more than two years as a director. Any director receiving
compensation pursuant to this paragraph shall be ineligible to vote
on all matters directly relating to that compensation and shall not
be counted for purposes of a quorum as to those matters.
   (8) Any officer of the insurer other than its agent or solicitor.
   (c) Nothing in this article shall prevent the payment of
compensation to an officer of the insurer based upon the aggregate
amounts of insurance issued by the insurer, or issued and in force,
during any specified period if the officer is not directly
responsible for recommending, underwriting, rating, or otherwise
approving the acceptability of insurance risks.



10435.  Whenever any insurer violates Section 10434, the
commissioner may revoke its certificate of authority or refuse to
issue a certificate of authority to that insurer.



10436.  An admitted life insurer may issue a rider to a policy of
life insurance for the purpose of providing coverage for long-term
care, if the rider has been reviewed and approved, in a manner
similar to that of other long-term care insurance products, by the
commissioner.