Title 57

NRS 684A.024 “Business entity” defined. “Business entity” means a corporation, association, partnership, limited-liability company, limited-liability partnership or other legal entity. (Added to NRS by 2017, 165)

NRS 684A.025 “Catastrophe” defined. “Catastrophe” means an event that: 1. Results in large numbers of deaths or injuries, causes extensive damage or destruction of facilities that provide and sustain human needs, produces an overwhelming demand on state and local response resourc…

NRS 684A.027 “Home state” defined. “Home state” means: 1. The District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States in which an independent, company, staff or public adjuster maintains his, her or its principal place of residence or principal place of business and i…

NRS 684A.030 “Independent adjuster,” “public adjuster,” “company adjuster” and “staff adjuster” defined. 1. “Independent adjuster” means an adjuster who is representing the interests of an insurer or a self-insurer and who: (a) Contracts for compensation with the insurer or self-…

NRS 684A.031 “Person” defined. “Person” means an individual or business entity. (Added to NRS by 2017, 165)

NRS 684A.033 “Uniform Business Entity Application” defined. “Uniform Business Entity Application” means the current version of the Uniform Application for Business Entity License/Registration for resident and nonresident business entities published by the National Association of …

NRS 684A.034 “Uniform Individual Application” defined. “Uniform Individual Application” means the current version of the Uniform Application for Individual Producer License/Registration for resident and nonresident individuals published by the National Association of Insurance Co…

NRS 684A.035 Applicability of other provisions. 1. The provisions of NRS 683A.341 and 686A.310 apply to adjusters. 2. For the purposes of subsection 1, unless the context requires that a section apply only to producers of insurance or insurers, any reference in those sections to …

NRS 684A.040 License required; penalties; exception to requirement for licensure for certain salaried employees of insurer. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 684A.060, no person may act as, or hold himself or herself out to be, an adjuster in this State unless then licensed …

NRS 684A.050 Concurrent licensing as independent, public, company and staff adjuster prohibited; fees. 1. The Commissioner may license an individual as an independent adjuster, a public adjuster, a company adjuster or a staff adjuster. No individual shall be licensed concurrently…

NRS 684A.055 Licensing of or ownership of licensed business entity by person in business of repairing bodies of automobiles prohibited. No person who is engaged in the business of repairing the bodies of automobiles may: 1. Be licensed pursuant to this chapter. 2. Own a controlli…

NRS 684A.060 Exceptions to requirement of licensing: Agents; catastrophes; temporary emergency license. 1. On behalf of, as authorized by, an insurer as to which he or she is licensed as an agent under chapter 683A of NRS, an agent may from time to time act as an adjuster without…

NRS 684A.070 Qualifications for license for natural person; waiver of certain requirements by Commissioner authorized; regulations. 1. For the protection of the people of this State, the Commissioner may not issue or continue any license as an adjuster except in compliance with t…

NRS 684A.080 Licensing of business entity: Qualifications; notification of Commissioner of changes of members, directors, officers and certain other persons. 1. Any business entity to whom a license is issued or renewed must: (a) Be eligible to declare this State as its home stat…

NRS 684A.090 Application for license; penalty. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child s…

NRS 684A.100 Examination for license: Required; exception. Each person who intends to apply for a license as an adjuster must, before applying for the license, personally take and pass to the Commissioner’s satisfaction a written examination testing the applicant’s qualifications…

NRS 684A.105 Examination for license: Exemptions. 1. An adjuster whose license expires is exempt from retaking the examination required by NRS 684A.100 if: (a) The adjuster: (1) Is not a resident of this State; (2) Has passed an examination to become licensed as an adjuster in th…

NRS 684A.110 Issuance of license; notice of refusal to issue license; fees not refundable; name of licensee. 1. If the Commissioner finds that the application is complete, that the applicant has passed all required examinations and is otherwise eligible and qualified for the lice…

NRS 684A.115 Issuance of nonresident license; verification of licensing status; requirement to maintain resident license in home state; termination. 1. The Commissioner shall issue a nonresident license as an adjuster to a nonresident person if: (a) The person is currently licens…

NRS 684A.120 Form and contents of license; trade name requirements; authority of Commissioner to contract for ministerial functions related to licensing. 1. The Commissioner shall prescribe the form of the adjuster license, which shall state: (a) The licensee’s name, business add…

NRS 684A.130 Period of validity, expiration and renewal of license; fees; request for waiver; change of address; authority of Commissioner to contract for ministerial functions related to licensing; inapplicability of provisions to temporary licenses. [Effective until the date of…

NRS 684A.135 Renewal of license: Continuing education. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an individual who holds a license as an adjuster must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 24 hours of courses of continuing education, of which 3 hours must be in ethics, whic…

NRS 684A.143 Payment of child support: Statement by applicant for license; grounds for denial of license or renewal; duty of Commissioner. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, sus…

NRS 684A.147 Suspension of license for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of license. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, su…

NRS 684A.150 Temporary license as independent adjuster. 1. In the event of death or inability to act as a licensed independent adjuster, the Commissioner may issue a temporary license as an independent adjuster to another individual qualified therefor except as to the taking and …

NRS 684A.165 Standards of conduct. 1. An adjuster shall be honest and fair in all communications with the insured, the insurer and the public. 2. An adjuster shall give policyholders and claimants prompt, knowledgeable service and courteous, fair and objective treatment at all ti…

NRS 684A.170 Place of business; display of license. 1. Every adjuster who is a resident of this State shall have and maintain in this state a place of business accessible to the public and from which the licensee principally conducts transactions under his or her license. The add…

NRS 684A.180 Records. 1. Each adjuster shall keep at his or her business address shown on the adjuster’s license a record of all transactions under the license. 2. The record shall include: (a) A copy of each contract between an independent adjuster and an insurer or self-insurer…

NRS 684A.190 Responsibility for employees. All business transacted by an adjuster under the adjuster’s license shall be in his or her name, and the adjuster shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of his or her employees within the scope of their employment. (Added to NRS …

NRS 684A.200 Nonresident licensees: Service of process; agreement to appear. Nonresidents of this state who are granted licenses as adjusters pursuant to NRS 684A.070 are also subject to NRS 683A.281. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1667; A 2001, 2212; 2011, 3366)

NRS 684A.210 Suspension, revocation or limitation of or refusal to continue license: Grounds. 1. The Commissioner may suspend, revoke, limit or refuse to continue any adjuster’s license: (a) For any cause specified in any other provision of this chapter; (b) For any applicable ca…

NRS 684A.220 Suspension, revocation or limitation of or refusal to continue license: Applicable provisions. NRS 683A.451 and 683A.461 also apply to suspension, revocation, limitation or refusal to continue adjusters’ licenses, except where in conflict with the express provisions …

NRS 684A.230 Duration of suspension. Every order suspending any license shall specify the period during which the suspension shall be effective, which period shall in no event exceed 12 months. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1668)

NRS 684A.235 Regulations. The Commissioner may promulgate reasonable regulations as are necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (Added to NRS by 2017, 167)

NRS 684A.240 Administrative fine: Levy in addition to or in lieu of suspension, revocation or refusal to renew license; revocation of license for nonpayment; recovery; deposit. 1. In addition to or in lieu of the suspension, revocation or refusal to renew any adjuster’s license f…

NRS 684A.250 Court authorized to impose fine in lieu of Commissioner’s order suspending, revoking or refusing to continue license; exception. 1. Upon the hearing of an appeal from the Commissioner’s order suspending, revoking or refusing to continue any license issued under the p…

NRS 684A.260 Reinstatement of license; relicensing; limitations. The Commissioner shall not reinstate the adjuster’s license of or relicense any licensee or former licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked until any cause for such suspension or revocation, not being a …