Misrepresentations and false advertising of insurance policies

D.C. Code § 31-2231.03 — under Unfair Insurance Trade Practices..

D.C. Code § 31-2231.03

No person shall make, issue, circulate, or cause to be made, issued or circulated, an estimate, illustration, circular or statement, sales presentation, omission, or comparison that: (1) Misrepresents the benefits, advantages, conditions, or terms of a policy; (2) Misrepresents the dividends or share of the surplus to be received on a policy; (3) Makes a false or misleading statement as to the dividends or share of surplus previously paid on a policy; (4) Is misleading or is a misrepresentation as to the financial condition of an insurer or as to the legal reserve system upon which a life insurer operates; (5) Uses a name or title of a policy or class of policies misrepresenting the true nature thereof; (6) Is a misrepresentation, including an intentional erroneous quotation of a premium rate for the purpose of inducing, or tending to induce, the purchase, lapse, forfeiture, exchange, conversion, or surrender of a policy; (7) Is a misrepresentation for the purpose of effecting a pledge or assignment of, or effecting a loan against, a policy; (8) Misrepresents a policy as being shares of stock; or (9) Uses a name which deceptively infers or suggests that it is an insurer if it is not an insurer.