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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 5. REGULATION OF UNAUTHORIZED INSURERS · Article 2. SURPLUS LINE INSURANCE · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

33-5-26. Endorsement of insurance contract by broker.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Every insurance contract procured and delivered as a surplus line coverage shall be initialed by or bear the name of the surplus line broker who procured it and shall have printed or stamped upon it the following: ‘‘This contract is registered and delivered as a surplus line coverage under the Surplus Line Insurance Law, O.C.G.A. Chapter 33-5.’’#

  2. (b)

    No surplus lines policy or certificate in which the policy premium is $5,000.00 per annum or less shall be delivered in this state unless a standard disclosure form or brochure explaining surplus lines insurance is attached to or made a part of the policy or certificate. The Commissioner shall prescribe by rule or regulation the format and contents of such form or brochure.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 56-616, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 8, § 2; Ga. L. 2019, p. 337, § 1-28/SB 132. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, deleted former subsection (c), which read: ‘‘Pursuant to Code Section 33-2-9, the Commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations which are necessary to implement the provisions of this article.’’

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t33-ch1-22-(v24)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V24, 2020 edition, page 212; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4ecec175d949.