The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 8 : Banking and Insurance

Chapter 131 : Licensing Requirements

Subchapter 001A : PRODUCER LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

• § 4813d. Exceptions to licensing

  (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require an insurer to obtain an insurance producer license. In this section, the term “insurer” does not include an insurer’s officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

  (b) A license as an insurance producer shall not be required of the following:

  (1) An officer, director, or employee of an insurer or of an insurance producer, provided the officer, director, or employee does not receive any commission on policies written or sold to insure risks residing, located, or to be performed in this State; and:

  (A) the officer, director, or employee’s activities are executive, administrative, managerial, clerical, or a combination of these, and are only indirectly related to the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance; or

  (B) the officer, director, or employee’s function relates to underwriting, loss control, inspection, or the processing, adjusting, investigating, or settling of a claim on a contract of insurance; or

  (C) The officer, director, or employee is acting in the capacity of a special agent or agency supervisor assisting insurance producers where the person’s activities are limited to providing technical advice and assistance to licensed insurance producers and do not include the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance;

  (2) A person who secures and furnishes information for the purpose of group life insurance, group property and casualty insurance, group annuities, group, or blanket accident and health insurance; or for the purpose of enrolling individuals under plans; issuing certificates under plans, or otherwise assisting in administering plans; or performs administrative services related to mass-marketed property and casualty insurance; where no commission is paid to the person for the service;

  (3) An employer or association or its officers, directors, employees, or the trustees of an employee trust plan, to the extent that the employers, officers, employees, directors, or trustees are engaged in the administration or operation of a program of employee benefits for the employer’s or association’s own employees or the employees of its subsidiaries or affiliates, which program involves the use of insurance issued by an insurer, as long as the employers, associations, officers, directors, employees, or trustees are not in any manner compensated, directly or indirectly, by the company issuing the contracts;

  (4) Employees of insurers or organizations employed by insurers who are engaging in the inspection, rating, or classification of risks, or in the supervision of the training of insurance producers and who are not individually engaged in the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance;

  (5) A person whose activities in this State are limited to advertising without the intent to solicit insurance in this State through communications in printed publications or other forms of electronic mass media whose distribution is not limited to residents of the State, provided the person does not sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance that would insure risks residing, located, or to be performed in this State;

  (6) A person who is not a resident of this State who sells, solicits, or negotiates a contract of insurance for commercial property and casualty risks to an insured with risks located in more than one state insured under that contract, provided that person is otherwise licensed as an insurance producer to sell, solicit, or negotiate that insurance in the State where the insured maintains its principal place of business and the contract of insurance insures risks located in that state; or

  (7) A salaried full-time employee who counsels or advises his or her employer relative to the insurance interests of the employer or of the subsidiaries or business affiliates of the employer, provided the employee does not sell or solicit insurance or receive a commission.

  (8) A person selling or offering portable electronics insurance who is an employee or authorized representative of a portable electronics vendor licensed as a limited lines insurance producer to sell, solicit, or negotiate portable electronics insurance in accordance with rules adopted by the Commissioner pursuant to section 4261 of this title. (Added 2001, No. 97 (Adj. Sess.), § 18; amended 2011, No. 136 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. May 18, 2012.)