RCW 48.17.380 Adjusters—Application form—Qualifications for license—Bond. (1) Application for a license to be an adjuster must be made to the commissioner upon forms furnished by the commissioner. (a) As a part of or in connection with the application, each resident applicant, and nonresident applicant designating Washington as the applicant’s home state must furnish information concerning […]
RCW 48.17.390 Independent, public, or crop adjusters—Separate licenses. (1)(a) The commissioner may license: (i) An individual or business entity as an independent adjuster or as a public adjuster; (ii) An individual as a crop adjuster; and (b) Separate licenses shall be required for each type of adjuster. (2) An individual or business entity may be […]
RCW 48.17.410 Authority of adjuster. An adjuster shall have authority under an adjuster’s license only to either investigate and negotiate settlement relative to insurance claims, or apply the factual circumstances of an insurance claim to the insurance policy provisions, or both, to the adjuster’s principal upon claims as limited under RCW 48.17.010(1) on behalf only […]
RCW 48.17.420 Appointed agent may adjust—When license or certification is required—Nonresident adjusters or crop adjusters. (1) An insurance producer or title insurance agent may from time to time act as an adjuster on behalf of and as authorized by an insurer for which an insurance producer or title insurance agent has been appointed as an […]
RCW 48.17.430 Public adjuster’s bond. (1) Prior to the issuance of a license as public adjuster, the applicant therefor shall file with the commissioner and shall thereafter maintain in force while so licensed a surety bond in favor of the people of the state of Washington, executed by an authorized corporate surety approved by the […]
RCW 48.17.450 Place of business. (1) Every licensed insurance producer, title insurance agent, and adjuster, other than an insurance producer licensed for life or disability insurances only, shall have and maintain in this state, or, if a nonresident insurance producer or title insurance agent, in this state or in the state of the licensee’s domicile, […]
RCW 48.17.460 Display of license. The license or licenses of each insurance producer, title insurance agent, or adjuster shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in that part of the place of business which is customarily open to the public. [ 2007 c 117 § 23; 1947 c 79 § .17.46; Rem. Supp. 1947 § […]
RCW 48.17.470 Records of insurance producers, title insurance agents, adjusters. (1) Every insurance producer, title insurance agent, or adjuster shall retain a record of all transactions consummated under the license. This record shall be in organized form and shall include: (a) If an insurance producer or title insurance agent: (i) A record of each insurance […]
RCW 48.17.475 Licensee to reply promptly to inquiry by commissioner. Every insurance producer, title insurance agent, adjuster, or other person licensed under this chapter shall promptly reply in writing to an inquiry of the commissioner relative to the business of insurance. A timely response is one that is received by the commissioner within fifteen business […]
RCW 48.17.480 Reporting and accounting for premiums. (1) An insurance producer, title insurance agent, or any other representative of an insurer involved in the procuring or issuance of an insurance contract shall report to the insurer the exact amount of consideration charged as premium for such contract, and such amount shall likewise be shown in […]
RCW 48.17.490 Must be licensed to receive a commission, service fee, or other valuable consideration. (1) An insurance company, insurance producer, or title insurance agent shall not pay a commission, service fee, or other valuable consideration to a person for selling, soliciting, or negotiating insurance in this state if that person is required to be […]
RCW 48.17.510 Temporary licenses—Restrictions—Commissioner’s discretion. (1) The commissioner may issue a temporary insurance producer license for a period not to exceed one hundred eighty days without requiring an examination if the commissioner deems that the temporary license is necessary for the servicing of an insurance business in the following cases: (a) To the surviving spouse […]
RCW 48.17.530 Commissioner may place on probation, suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license. (1) The commissioner may place on probation, suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew an adjuster’s license, an insurance producer’s license, a title insurance agent’s license, or any surplus line broker’s license, or may levy a civil […]
RCW 48.17.535 License or certificate suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance. The commissioner shall immediately suspend the license or certificate of a person who has been certified pursuant to RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social and health services as a person who is not in compliance with a support order or a *residential or visitation order. […]
RCW 48.17.540 Procedure to suspend, revoke, or refuse—Effect of conviction of felony. (1) The commissioner may revoke or refuse to renew any license issued under this chapter, or any surplus line broker’s license, immediately and without hearing, upon sentencing of the licensee for conviction of a felony by final judgment of any court of competent […]
RCW 48.17.550 Duration of suspension. Every order suspending any such license shall specify the period during which suspension will be effective, and which period shall in no event exceed twelve months. [1947 c 79 § .17.55; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.17.55.]
RCW 48.17.560 Fines may be imposed. After hearing or upon stipulation by the licensee or insurance education provider, and in addition to or in lieu of the suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew any such license or insurance education provider approval, the commissioner may levy a fine upon the licensee or insurance education provider. (1) […]
RCW 48.17.563 Insurance education providers—Commissioner’s approval—Renewal fee. (1) The commissioner may require insurance education providers to furnish specific information regarding their curricula, faculty, methods of monitoring attendance, and other matters reasonably related to providing insurance education under this chapter. The commissioner may grant approvals to such providers who demonstrate the ability to conduct and certify […]
RCW 48.17.565 Insurance education providers—Violations—Costs awarded. If an investigation of any insurance education provider culminates in a finding by the commissioner or by any court of competent jurisdiction, that the insurance education provider has failed to comply with or has violated any statute or regulation pertaining to insurance education, the insurance education provider shall pay […]
RCW 48.17.568 Insurance education providers—Bond. In addition to the regulatory requirements imposed pursuant to RCW 48.17.150, the commissioner may require each insurance education provider to post a bond, cash deposit, or irrevocable letter of credit. Every insurance education provider, other than an insurer, health care service contractor, health maintenance organization, or educational institution established by […]
