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th other life insurance, to leave with the policyholder written, signed and dated statements which fully and accurately compare the terms, conditions and benefits of the existing policy with the proposed policy. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1689) NRS 686A.070 Falsification of records or financial statements prohibited; penalty. 1. A person subject to regulation under this Code shall not knowingly make or cause to be made any false entry of a material fact in any book, report or statement of any person or knowingly omit to make a true entry of any material fact pertaining to such person’s business in any book, report or statement of such person. 2. A person shall not knowingly file with any supervisory or other public officer, or knowingly make, publish, disseminate, circulate or deliver to any person, or place before the public, or knowingly cause directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, delivered to any person, or placed before the public, any false material statement of fact as to the financial condition of a person. 3. Any person who violates, or with like intent, aids or abets any violation of this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1689; A 1975, 1287) NRS 686A.080 Defamatory statement concerning person engaged or proposing to engage in business of insurance prohibited. No person shall make, publish, disseminate or circulate, directly or indirectly, or aid, abet or encourage the making, publishing, disseminating or circulating of any oral or written statement or any pamphlet, circular, article or literature which is false, or maliciously critical of or derogatory to an insurer, or of an organization proposing to become an insurer, and which is calculated to injure any person engaged or proposing to engage in the business of insurance. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1689) NRS 686A.085 Bank prohibited from requiring customers to purchase insurance from parent, subsidiary or affiliate of bank. A bank shall not in any manner extend credit, lease or sell property of any kind, or furnish any services, or fix or vary the consideration for any of them, on the condition or requirement that the customer purchase insurance from a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of the bank. For the purposes of this section, the terms “affiliate,” “parent” and “subsidiary” have the meanings ascribed to them in NRS 683A.231. (Added to NRS by 1997, 782) NRS 686A.090 Boycott, coercion or intimidation tending to result in unreasonable restraint of or monopoly in business of insurance prohibited. No person shall enter into any agreement to commit, or by any concerted action commit, any act of boycott, coercion or intimidation resulting in or tending to result in unreasonable restraint of, or any monopoly in, any business of insurance. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1689) NRS 686A.095 Cancellation or restriction of agent’s authority based solely on submission of claims prohibited. 1. An insurer shall not, without the written consent of the agent, cancel a written agreement with an agent or reduce or restrict the agent’s authority to transact property or casualty insurance based solely on the loss ratio experience on insurance transacted by that agent, if the agent was required to submit the applications for that insurance for underwriting approval, all material information on those applications was fully completed and the agent did not omit or alter any information provided by the applicants for that insurance. 2. As used in this section, “loss ratio experience” means the amount of money received by the insurer in payment of premiums divided by the amount of money expended by the insurer in payment of claims for a specified period. (Added to NRS by 1989, 963) NRS 686A.100 Life insurance, annuities and health insurance: Unfair discrimination prohibited. 1. No person may make or permit any unfair discrimination between persons of the same class and equal expectation of life in the rates charged for any contract of life insurance or of life annuity or in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon, or in any other of the terms and conditions of such contract. 2. No person may make or permit any unfair discrimination between persons of the same class and of essentially the same hazard in the amount of premium, policy fees or rates charged for any policy or contract of health insurance or in the benefits payable thereunder, or in any of the terms or conditions of such contract, or in any other manner whatever. 3. No person may make or permit any unfair discrimination between persons legally qualified to provide a particular service, in the amount of the fee or charge for that service payable as a benefit under any policy or contract of health insurance. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1690; A 1983, 326) NRS 686A.110 Life insurance, annuities and health insurance: Rebates and other inducements prohibited. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no person shall knowingly: 1. Permit to be made or offer to make or make any contract of life insurance, life annuity or health insurance, or agreement as to such contract, other than as plainly expressed in the contract issued thereon, or pay or allow, or give or offer to pay, allow or give, directly or indirectly, or knowingly accept, as an inducement to such insurance or annuity, any rebate of premiums payable on the contract, or any special favor or advantage in the dividends or other benefits thereon, or any paid employment or contract for services of any kind, or any valuable consideration or inducement whatever not specified in the contract; or 2. Directly or indirectly give or sell or purchase or offer or agree to give, sell, purchase, or allow as an inducement to such insurance or annuity or in connection therewith, whether or not to be specified in the policy or contract, any agreement of any form or nature promising returns and profits, or any stocks, bonds or other securities, or interest present or contingent therein or as measured thereby, of any insurer or other corporation, association or partnership, or any dividends or profits accrued or to accrue thereon. (Added to NRS by 1971, 1690) NRS 686A.120 Life insurance, annuities and health insurance: Exceptions to provisions limiting discrimination, rebates and use of securities as inducements. 1. Nothing in NRS 686A.100 and 686A.110 shall be construed as including within the definition of discrimination or rebates any of the following practices: (a) In the case of any contract of life insurance or life annuity, paying bonuses to policyholders or otherwise abating their premiums in whole or in part out of surplus accumulated from nonparticipating insurance, provided that any such bonuses or abatement of premiums shall be fair and equitable to policyholders and for the best interests of the insurer and its policyholders. (b) In the case of life insurance policies issued on the debit plan, making allowance to policyholders who have continuously for a specified period made premium payments directly to an office of the insurer in an amount which fairly represents the saving in collection expense. (c) Readjusting the rate of premium for a group insurance policy based on the loss or expense experience thereunder, at the end of the first or any subsequent policy year of insurance thereunder, which may be made retroactive only for such policy year. (d) Reducing the premium rate for policies of large amounts, but not exceeding savings in issuance and administration expenses reasonably attributable to such policies as compared with policies of similar plan issued in smaller amounts. (e) Reducing the premium rates for life or health insurance policies or annuity contracts on salary savings, payroll deduction, preauthorized check, bank draft or similar plans in amounts reasonably commensurate with the savings made by the use of such pla

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