§ 36-6462. License required before commencing business activity – Soliciting liability insurance for purchasing groups.

A.  Any person acting, or offering to act, as an agent or broker for a risk retention group which solicits members, sells insurance coverage, purchases coverage for its members located within the state, or otherwise does business in this state, before commencing any such activity, shall obtain a license from the Commissioner of this state.

B.  1.  No person may act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance in this state for a purchasing group from an authorized insurer or a risk retention group chartered in a state unless such person is licensed as an insurance agent for the insurer or risk retention group or is licensed as a broker.

2.  No person may act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance coverage in this state for any member of a purchasing group under a purchasing group's policy unless such person is licensed as an insurance agent for the insurer or is licensed as a broker.

3.  No person may act or aid in any manner in soliciting, negotiating, or procuring liability insurance from an approved nonadmitted surplus lines insurer on behalf of a purchasing group located in this state unless such person is licensed as a broker.

C.  For purposes of acting as an agent or broker for a risk retention group or purchasing group pursuant to subsections A and B of this section, the requirement of residence in this state does not apply.

D.  Every person licensed as an agent or broker as required in this section, on business placed with risk retention groups or written through a purchasing group, shall inform each prospective insured of the provisions of the notice required by the Oklahoma Risk Retention Act.

Added by Laws 1987, c. 157, § 12, emerg. eff. June 25, 1987.  Amended by Laws 2004, c. 334, § 7, emerg. eff. May 25, 2004.