Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 38a - Insurance Department
495 - Medicare Supplement Insurance Minimum Standards
Section 38a-495-13 - Standards for marketing
Universal Citation: CT Reg of State Agencies 38a-495-13
Current through September 9, 2024
(a) Every insurer, health care service plan or other entity marketing Medicare supplement insurance coverage in this state, directly or through its producers, shall:
(1) Establish marketing procedures to assure
that any comparison of policies by its agents or other producers will be fair
and accurate.
(2) Establish
marketing procedures to assure excessive insurance is not sold or
issued.
(3) Display prominently by
type, stamp or other appropriate means, on the first page or the outline of
coverage and policy the following:
"NOTICE TO BUYER: This policy may not cover all of the costs associated with medical care incurred by the buyer during the period of coverage. The buyer is advised to review carefully all policy limitations." |
(4)
Inquire and otherwise make every reasonable effort to identify whether a
prospective applicant or enrollee for Medicare supplement insurance already has
accident and sickness insurance and the types and amounts of any such
insurance.
(5) Every insurer or
entity marketing Medicare supplement insurance shall establish auditable
procedures for verifying compliance with this subsection.
(b) In addition to the practices prohibited in Section 38a-815 of the General Statutes the following acts and practices are prohibited:
(1) Twisting. Knowingly making any misleading
representation or incomplete or fraudulent comparison of any insurance policies
or insurers for the purpose of inducing, or tending to induce, any person to
lapse, forfeit, surrender, terminate, retain, pledge, assign, borrow on, or
covert any insurance policy or to take out a policy of insurance with another
insurer.
(2) High pressure tactics.
Employing any method of marketing having the effect of or tending to induce the
purchase of insurance through force, fright, threat whether explicit or
implied, or undue pressure.
(3)
Cold lead advertising. Making use directly or indirectly of any method of
marketing which fails to disclose in a conspicuous manner that a purpose of the
method of marketing is solicitation of insurance and that contact will be made
by a producer or insurance company.
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