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NH Rev Stat § 402:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:48 - Penalty.

    402:48 Penalty. –||Whoever violates any provision of this subdivision shall be fined not more than $2,500 or shall have any license suspended or revoked or shall both be fined and have any license suspended or revoked.|||Source. 1913, 127:4. PL 273:42. RL 323:47. RSA 402:48. 1973, 528:275. 1983, 473:6, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:49 - Revocation of Licenses.

    402:49 Revocation of Licenses. –||The commissioner may, after notice and hearing, revoke or suspend a license theretofore issued to any company, association or society, agent or broker for a period not exceeding 3 years, for any such knowing or wilful violation.|||Source. 1913, 127:4. PL 273:43. RL 323:48.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:50 - General Penalty.

    402:50 General Penalty. –||Whoever violates any provision of this subdivision shall be fined not more than $2,500 or shall have any license suspended or revoked or shall both be fined and have any license suspended or revoked.|||Source. 1870, 1:13. GL 171:10. PS 168:18. PL 273:44. RL 323:49. RSA 402:50. 1973, 529:100. 1983, 473:7, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:51 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:51 - Embezzlement; Fraud.

    402:51 Embezzlement;  Fraud. –||If any officer of an insurance company organized under the laws of this state shall embezzle, abstract or wilfully misapply any of the money, funds or other securities of the company, or shall represent as the property of the company any money, funds or other securities which belong to others, or shall make any false entry in any book, report or statement of the company with intent in either case to injure or defraud it, or to deceive any of its officers or the commissioner or any other person or persons appointed to examine its affairs, he shall be guilty of a class A felony.|||Source. 1895, 106:1. PL 273:45. RL 323:50. RSA 402:51. 1973, 528:276, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:52 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:52 - Illegal Fees, etc.

    402:52 Illegal Fees, etc. –||If any officer or employee of any such insurance company shall directly or indirectly receive any fee, present or benefit whatever from any borrower or applicant for a loan from such company as an inducement to making the loan, or from any one negotiating securities to the company (except the usual compensation for drawing mortgages and other papers pertaining to the loan), or for negotiating loans in his own behalf as an official of the company, shall be guilty of a class A felony.|||Source. 1895, 106:2. PL 273:46. RL 323:51. RSA 402:52. 1973, 528:277, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:53 - Conversion by Agent.

    402:53 Conversion by Agent. –||Any money, substitute for money or thing of value whatever, received by any agent, solicitor or broker, as premium or return premium, on or under any policy of insurance or application therefor, shall be received by him in his fiduciary capacity, and any agent, solicitor or broker who embezzles or fraudulently converts or appropriates to his own use, or, with intent to embezzle, takes, secretes or otherwise disposes of, or fraudulently withholds, appropriates, lends, invests or otherwise uses or applies any such premium or return premium received by him, contrary to the instructions or without the consent of the company, association or society, for or on account of which the same was received by him, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished accordingly, irrespective of whether or not he has, or claims to have, any commission or other interest in such receipts.|||Source. 1913, 176:1. 1917, 4:1. PL 273:47. RL 323:52.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:54 - Revocation of Authority.

    402:54 Revocation of Authority. –||Whenever the insurance commissioner of the state shall determine after a hearing, 10 days' notice of which shall be given stating the time, place and purpose of such hearing, that any insurer organized under the laws of this state, whether on the stock, mutual, reciprocal, fraternal or other plan, or that any of the representatives of such insurer wilfully shall have transacted or attempted to transact or solicited business in any manner or accepted risks in any jurisdiction in which such insurer is not licensed in accordance with the laws of such jurisdiction, and which jurisdiction has adopted an act similar hereto, it shall be his duty to revoke the certificate of authority of any such offending insurer; provided, however, that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to a domestic insurer when the major portion of such risks originated in a jurisdiction wherein such insurer was licensed to transact such class or classes of business and when such origin was by other means than by circularization or by advertising locally in any such jurisdiction wherein such insurer is not licensed.|||Source. 1943, 105:1, par. 55, eff. April 7, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:55 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:55 - Definitions.

    402:55 Definitions. –||The term "transacting business," as used in this subdivision, shall be defined to include in addition to its usual interpretation, advertising locally in any foreign jurisdiction in which an insurer is not licensed or circularizing in any such jurisdiction without regard for the source of such circularization whenever such advertising locally or such circularization is for the purpose of solicitation of insurance business. The word "jurisdiction" as used in this subdivision shall be defined to include any state of the United States, the District of Columbia or any province of the Dominion of Canada.|||Source. 1943, 105:1, par. 56, eff. April 7, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:56 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:56 - Fees.

    402:56 Fees. –||Every insurance company making application for an original license to transact insurance business in this state, shall pay to the commissioner a fee as established by RSA 400-A:29 for the examination, investigation and processing of the application. Such fee shall be retained by the commissioner even though the application may be withdrawn, denied or otherwise acted upon. Any reapplication for such a license shall be subject to the same fee. Every such company shall annually thereafter pay a fee as established by RSA 400-A:29 for the renewal of such license, payable on or before April 1 of each year. Such renewal fee shall include all charges in connection thereof except fee for agents' licenses and the renewal thereof. All fees collected by the commissioner shall be turned over to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund as unrestricted revenue.|||Source. 1870, 1:3, 4, 5, 7. GL 174:2, 3. 1889, 86:1, 2, 4. PS 169:13. 1907, 116:1. PL 275:58. 1933, 32:2. 1941, 78:1, 3. RL 325:63. 1945, 71:4, par. 57. RSA 402:56. 1963, 310:1. 1983, 473:8. 1997, 221:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:56-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:56-a - Repealed by 1997, 221:6, eff. July 1, 1997.

    402:56-a Repealed by 1997, 221:6, eff. July 1, 1997. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:57 - Repealed by 1970, 37:4, I, eff. May 4, 1970.

    402:57 Repealed by 1970, 37:4, I, eff. May 4, 1970. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:57-a, 402:57-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:57-a, 402:57-b - Repealed by 1971, 244:19, VI, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.

    402:57-a, 402:57-b Repealed by 1971, 244:19, VI, eff. Aug. 17, 1971. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:58 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:58 - When Effective [Omitted.]

    402:58 When Effective  [Omitted.] –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:59 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:59 - Repealed by 1983, 473:16, I, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.

    402:59 Repealed by 1983, 473:16, I, eff. Sept. 3, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:60 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:60 - Repealed by 1983, 473:16, II, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.

    402:60 Repealed by 1983, 473:16, II, eff. Sept. 3, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:61 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:61 - Repealed by 1970, 37:4, II, eff. May 4, 1970.

    402:61 Repealed by 1970, 37:4, II, eff. May 4, 1970. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:62 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:62 - When Effective.

    402:62 When Effective. –||[Repealed 1983, 473:16, III, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.]|||
NH Rev Stat § 402:63 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:63 - Exemption.

    402:63 Exemption. –||The provisions of RSA 402:24 and RSA 402:56 and 57 shall not apply to mutual insurance companies that operate on an assessment plan and require as a condition for granting insurance the signing of a premium deposit note by the insured, which note is given for the purpose of establishing a limit of liability to assessment, while their total receipts from policyholders is less than $10,000 per year.|||Source. 1945, 71:4, par. 59, eff. March 22, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:64 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:64 - Repealed by 1983, 473:16, IV, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.

    402:64 Repealed by 1983, 473:16, IV, eff. Sept. 3, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:65 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:65 - Repealed by 1983, 473:16, V, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.

    402:65 Repealed by 1983, 473:16, V, eff. Sept. 3, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:66 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:66 - Relief Fund.

    402:66 Relief Fund. –||Six thousand dollars of the amount received as the taxes imposed by RSA 400-A shall annually be set apart by the state treasurer, and kept distinct from all other funds, and shall be known as the firemen's relief fund.|||Source. 1899, 64:2. 1915, 152:1. 1917, 195:1. PL 275:62. RL 325:67. 1945, 71:4, par. 62. RSA 402:66. 1971, 244:3. 1973, 232:1, eff. Aug. 18, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:67 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:67 - Expenditure.

    402:67 Expenditure. –||Such fund, in the month of May after its receipt, shall be paid over, upon the order of the governor, to the treasurer of the New Hampshire State Firemen's Association, as trustee, and shall be devoted to, and paid out for, the relief of any fireman injured or disabled in the discharge of his duty as fireman, who is a member in good standing in any regularly organized town or city fire company in this state belonging to said association and who is himself a member of said association, and for the relief of the dependent parent, surviving spouse or children of such fireman whose death was occasioned by injuries received in the line of his duty as a fireman; said sum of $6,000 to be in full for any appropriation for any one year.|||Source. 1899, 64:2. 1915, 195. PL 275:63. RL 325:68. 1945, 71:4, par. 63. RSA 402:67. 1992, 103:1, eff. June 28, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:68 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:68 - Additional Relief.

    402:68 Additional Relief. –||In addition to said firemen's relief fund, in the event of the depletion of the treasury of the New Hampshire State Firemen's Association below the amount necessary to meet its obligations, the state treasurer shall, having received a certified statement of such condition from the treasurer of said association, upon the order of the governor, pay to the treasurer of said association as trustee a sum not to exceed $2,000 annually.|||Source. 1899, 64:3. 1903, 128:1. PL 275:64. RL 325:69. 1945, 71:4, par. 64, eff. March 22, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:69 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:69 - Exemption.

    402:69 Exemption. –||The money due a fireman, or in case of his death his parents, widow or children, by reason of any rule or bylaw of said association, shall be exempt from attachment or trustee process.|||Source. 1899, 64:3. PL 275:65. RL 325:70. 1945, 71:4, par. 65, eff. March 22, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:70 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:70 - Regulations; Reports.

    402:70 Regulations;  Reports. –||The New Hampshire State Firemen's Association shall make and observe just and equitable rules, bylaws and regulations for the proper apportionment and disbursement of such fund, subject to the approval of the governor and council. It shall, through its president and treasurer, make a full and detailed report of its disposal of such fund and file the same with the secretary of state in the month of May annually.|||Source. 1899, 64:4. PL 275:66. RL 325:71. 1945, 71:4, par. 66, eff. March 22, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:71 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:71 - Definitions.

    402:71 Definitions. –||The word "fireman" as used in the subdivision shall be construed to include any woman member of such fire company and of such association, and the word "widow" as used therein shall be construed to include the widower of any such woman member.|||Source. 1945, 71:4, par. 67, eff. March 22, 1945.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:72 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:72 - Repealed by 1971, 244:19, IV, eff. Aug. 17, 1971.

    402:72 Repealed by 1971, 244:19, IV, eff. Aug. 17, 1971. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:73 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:73 - Deposits in Trust.

    402:73 Deposits in Trust. –||In all cases in which the laws of any other state of the United States require that the insurance companies incorporated by the laws of other states shall deposit with some officer of the state in which such insurance company is incorporated stocks or other securities in trust or for the benefit of policyholders of such companies, as a condition for doing business in such other states, the insurance commissioner shall receive from any insurance company incorporated under the laws of this state stocks or other securities, in such amount as may be required by the laws of such other state or states, on deposit in trust for the benefit of the policyholders of such company.|||Source. 1911, 131:1. 1917, 21:1. PL 273:49. RL 323:54.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:75 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:75 - Repealed by 1983, 473:16, VI, eff. Sept. 3, 1983.

    402:75 Repealed by 1983, 473:16, VI, eff. Sept. 3, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 402:76 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:76 - Modification.

    402:76 Modification. –||Any existing contract between an insurance agent and insurance company may be modified only by mutual consent.|||Source. 1977, 566:2, eff. July 16, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:77 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:77 - Retention of Unpaid Premium.

    402:77 Retention of Unpaid Premium. –||Any insurance company, broker or agent may retain an amount equal to any unpaid premium due on the policy under which a claim is being presented, in connection with claims by and settled with an insured; provided, however, that the unpaid premium remains unpaid 60 days after the effective date of such policy or the date of the original billing for the unpaid premium, whichever occurs later. Such unpaid premium shall not be retained as against any loss payee or mortgagee named in said policy up to the amount of the unpaid balance owed to such loss payee or mortgagee on the date the loss occurred which gave rise to said claim. This section shall not be applicable to a health insurance policy.|||Source. 1981, 217:1, eff. Aug. 10, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:78 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:78 - Request for Information.

    402:78 Request for Information. –||I. Any law enforcement investigator may request an insurance company to release any information in its possession relative to the disappearance, theft or loss of any motor vehicle, or other personal property. The insurance company shall release the information and cooperate with any official authorized to request such information pursuant to this section. The information may include but not be limited to:||(a) Any relevant insurance policy;||(b) Policy premium payments records;||(c) History of previous claims made by the insured for the theft, loss or disappearance of any motor vehicle or other personal property;||(d) Any other material relating to the investigation of the theft, loss or disappearance.||II. If an insurance company has reason to suspect that a theft, loss or disappearance of a motor vehicle or other personal property in the amount of $500 or more was caused by other than accidental means, the company shall notify the local or state law enforcement authorities and furnish them, either through a recognized bureau or organization of companies or through the secretary or other officer of the insurance company, with all relevant material acquired during its investigation of the theft, loss or disappearance of a motor vehicle or other personal property. The insurance company shall cooperate with and take such reasonable action as may be requested of it by any law enforcement agency, and permit any person so ordered by a court to inspect any of its records pertaining to the policy and the loss.||III. In the absence of fraud or malice, no public official or insurance company or person who furnishes information on behalf of the insurance company shall be liable for damages in a civil action or subject to criminal prosecution for any oral or written statement made or any other action taken that is necessary to supply information required pursuant to this section.||IV. The recipient of any information furnished pursuant to this section shall hold the information in confidence, and shall only release it to a law enforcement authority or agency or to the insurance department, until such time as its release is required pursuant to a criminal or civil proceeding.||V. An insurer or other person licensed by the insurance department who fails to comply with this section may be subject to administrative action to be taken by the insurance commissioner. The penalty imposed by the commissioner may include a fine not exceeding $2,500 in the discretion of the insurance commissioner, or suspension or revocation of such insurer's license, or both.|||Source. 1981, 502:4, eff. Aug. 28, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:79 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:79 - Custody; Reimbursement for Medical Expenses.

    402:79 Custody;  Reimbursement for Medical Expenses. –||Whenever the state or any of its subdivisions, or any agency of the state or of any of its subdivisions, is required to pay under the provisions of RSA 623:1, I for the medical care of any person in its custody pursuant to a valid arrest or detention, such governmental unit shall be entitled to obtain reimbursement for such payments from any insurer to the extent that such insurer would be liable to pay for such medical care pursuant to any health, medical, group health or medical, liability, or other insurance policy.|||Source. 1987, 250:1, eff. July 17, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:80 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:80 - Cancellation or Termination of Policies.

    402:80 Cancellation or Termination of Policies. –||No cancellation or termination of an insurance policy of any type for nonpayment of a premium shall be effective if:||I. Payment of the premium is actually received by the insurance company or by the insurance company's agent, before the date and time of the cancellation or termination of the policy as stated in the notice of cancellation or termination; or||II. Payment of the premium is sent to the insurance company, or the insurance company's agent, by certified mail before the date and time of cancellation or termination of the policy as stated in the notice of cancellation or termination.|||Source. 1988, 115:1. 2012, 100:1, eff. July 28, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 402:82 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 402 - Insurance Companies and Agents|Section 402:82 - Claim Forms and Applications.

    402:82 Claim Forms and Applications. –||I. All insurance claim forms shall contain a statement that clearly states in substance the following: "Any person who, with a purpose to injure, defraud, or deceive any insurance company, files a statement of claim containing any false, incomplete, or misleading information is subject to prosecution and punishment for insurance fraud, as provided in RSA 638:20."||II. No insurance company or producer shall accept an application for workers' compensation or life, accident and health insurance unless the application includes:||(a) A written or electronic signature of the producer, unless the transaction does not involve a producer; and||(b) A written or electronic signature of the applicant. In the case of group life, accident, or health insurance, the certificate holder insured under the group health policy is not the applicant.||III. Paragraph II shall not apply to a request for a binder providing temporary coverage, provided the binder is effective for a period of no more than 30 days. The insurer shall comply with the provisions of paragraph II before the issuance of the insurance policy.||IV. The lack of the information required by paragraphs I and II shall not constitute a defense against prosecution under RSA 638:20 or any other criminal statute.||V. "Electronic signature" shall have the same definition as under RSA 294-E:2.||VI. "Written signature" means an original signature or a duplicate copy made by photocopying, facsimile, or other means similar and does not include stamped signatures.|||Source. 1991, 248:2. 2008, 378:3. 2010, 212:4. 2011, 189:1. 2014, 196:1, eff. July 11, 2014.|