Massachusetts Statutes

Section 99B. The commissioner may approve for use within the commonwealth any form of policy for property insurance which is issued to insure a business, professional or governmental operation, and which does not correspond to the standard fire insurance policy as set forth in se…

Section 99C. There shall be established a separate classification for sailmaker shops for companies issuing policies or contracts which insure against loss or damage by fire or by fire and lightning to property or interests in the commonwealth.

Section 9A. (1) In addition to the reserve liability of life insurance companies computed in accordance with the requirements of section nine, the commissioner shall each year compute or cause to be computed for each domestic life insurance company, except as provided in subdivis…

Section 9B. (A) Every life insurance company doing business in the commonwealth shall annually submit the opinion of a qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by the commission by regulation …

Section 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Casualty and Surety Rate Regulatory Law.

Section 10. Any member of or subscriber to a rating organization may appeal to the commissioner from the action or decision of such rating organization in approving or rejecting any proposed change in or addition to the filings of such rating organization and the commissioner sha…

Section 10A. (a) An automobile insurance rating organization licensed under the provisions of section eight is hereby authorized to create a statewide toll free tip line for reporting information on stolen cars and suspected auto theft activities to the state police and the gover…

Section 11. Every rating organization and every insurer which makes its own rates shall, within a reasonable time after receiving written request therefor and upon payment of such reasonable charge as it may make, furnish to any insured affected by a rate made by it, or to the au…

Section 12. (a) Every group, association or other organization of insurers, whether located within or outside this commonwealth, which assists insurers which make their own filings or rating organizations in rate making, by the collection and furnishing of loss or expense statist…

Section 13. (a) Every group, association or other organization of insurers which engages in joint underwriting or joint reinsurance shall be subject to regulation with respect thereto as herein provided, subject, however, with respect to joint underwriting, to all other provision…

Section 14. The commissioner shall, at least once in five years, make or cause to be made an examination of each rating organization licensed in this commonwealth as provided in section eight and he may, as often as he may deem it expedient, make or cause to be made an examinatio…

Section 15. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate reasonable rules and statistical plans, reasonably adapted to each of the rating systems on file with him, which may be modified from time to time and which shall be used thereafter by each insurer in the recording and reporting o…

Section 16. No person or organization shall wilfully withhold information from, or knowingly give false or misleading information to, the commissioner, any statistical agency designated by the commissioner, any rating organization, or any insurer, which will affect the rates or p…

Section 17. Agreements may be made among insurers with respect to the equitable apportionment among them of insurance which may be afforded applicants who are in good faith entitled to, but who are unable to, procure such insurance through ordinary methods and such insurers may a…

Section 18. Any person or organization wilfully violating any provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each such violation. Such penalty may be in addition to any other penalty provided by law. The commissioner may suspend th…

Section 19. (a) Any insurer or rating organization aggrieved by any order or decision of the commissioner made without a hearing, may, within thirty days after notice of the order to the insurer or organization, make written request to the commissioner for a hearing thereon. The …

Section 2. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public welfare by regulating insurance rates to the end that they shall not be excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory, and to authorize and regulate co-operative action among insurers in rate making and in other m…

Section 20. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence or clause of this chapter is held invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this chapter.

Section 3. The following words, as used in this chapter, unless the text otherwise requires or a different meaning is specifically required, shall mean— ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of insurance. ''Company'', all corporations, associations, partnerships or individuals engag…

Section 4. This chapter shall apply to risks and operations in this commonwealth insured by insurance companies authorized to transact business in this commonwealth under subdivisions (d), (e) and (f) of the Second clause, under the Third, Fourth, and Fifth clauses, under subdivi…

Section 5. (a) All rates shall be made in accordance with the following provisions:— 1. Due consideration shall be given to past and prospective loss experience, within and outside this commonwealth, to catastrophe hazards, if any, to a reasonable margin for underwriting profit a…

Terminated, 1986, 351, Sec. 18

Section 5C. (a)(1) The medical professional mutual insurance company approved by the commissioner is hereby authorized to establish an experience review plan for all physicians insured by it. Such experience review plan shall be administered by an experience review committee esta…

Section 6. (a) Every insurer shall file with the commissioner or his designated representative every manual of classifications, rules and rates, every rating plan and every modification of any of the foregoing which it proposes to use. Every such filing shall be made with the com…

Section 7. (a) If at any time the commissioner finds that a filing does not meet the requirements of this chapter, he shall, after a hearing held upon not less than ten days' written notice, specifying the matters to be considered at such hearing, to every insurer and rating orga…

Section 8. (a) A corporation, an unincorporated association, a partnership or an individual, whether located within or outside this commonwealth, may make application to the commissioner for license as a rating organization for such kinds of insurance or subdivisions thereof as a…

Section 9. Every member of, or subscriber to, a rating organization shall adhere to the filings made on its behalf by such organization except that any such insurer may make written application to the commissioner for permission to file a uniform percentage decrease or increase t…

Section 1. The purpose of this chapter is to subject certain insurers to the jurisdiction of courts of the commonwealth in suits by or on behalf of insureds or beneficiaries under insurance contracts. The legislature declares that it is a subject of concern that many residents of…

Section 2. (a) Any of the following acts in this commonwealth, effected by mail or otherwise, by an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer: (1) the issuance or delivery of contracts of insurance to residents of this commonwealth or to corporations authorized to do business therein…

Section 3. (a) Before any unauthorized foreign or alien insurer shall file or cause to be filed any pleading other than a plea in bar, in abatement, to the jurisdiction, or a motion to dismiss in any action, suit or proceeding instituted against it, such unauthorized insurer shal…

Section 3A. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any suit, action or proceeding against any foreign company not lawfully admitted to transact business in the commonwealth arising out of any contract of insurance effectuated in accordance with section one hundred and …

Section 4. In any action against an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer upon a contract of insurance issued or delivered in the commonwealth to a resident thereof or to a corporation authorized to do business therein, if the insurer has failed for thirty days after demand prior…

Section 5. If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to …

Section 6. This chapter may be cited as the unauthorized insurer's process act.

Section 1. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires or a different meaning is specifically prescribed, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of insurance; ''Association'', the joint underwriting associatio…

Section 3. No insurance company shall direct any agent or other producer not to solicit business through the association; no insurance agent shall direct any other agent in his employ or any broker or other producer not to solicit business through the association; and no agent, b…

Section 4. (a) All insurers licensed to write and engaged in writing in this commonwealth, on a direct basis, basic property insurance or any component thereof in multi-peril policies, shall cooperate in organizing a joint underwriting association which shall provide basic proper…

Section 5. (a) The operation of the association shall be subject to the supervision and regulation of the commissioner. The commissioner or any person designated to act for the commissioner shall have the power to examine and investigate the operation of the association and shall…

Section 6. There shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against insurance companies, the association, or agents or employees thereof, or insurance agents or brokers using the, plan or association, or the commissioner or his authoriz…

Section 6A. No person who serves as a director, officer, trustee or agent of the association shall be held liable solely by reason of such service as a director, officer, trustee or agent for any act or omission resulting in damage or injury to another, if such person was acting …

Section 7. The denial by the association of a part or all of the coverage requested by an eligible applicant, and any other decision requiring improvements to be made or loss prevention measures to be taken as a condition of providing basic property insurance shall be subject to …

Section 8. (a) In order to carry out the purpose of this chapter the commissioner is authorized to assess each insurance company an amount in the proportion that the premiums earned in the commonwealth during the preceding calendar year by each such company in those lines of insu…

Section 9. The association established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall prepare and submit to the commissioner of insurance a market assistance plan to assist applicants to obtain homeowners insurance in the voluntary market. All members of the association may, bu…

Section 12. (a) The Fund shall not be obligated to pay any first-party claims by a high net worth insured. (b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Fund shall not be obligated to pay any third-party claim relating to a policy of a high net worth insured. This exclusion shall not appl…

Section 3. (a) Any person who solicits or receives any remuneration, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind in return for purchasing, leasing, ordering or arranging for or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering of any good, facility, service, or it…