§ 27-12-7 — False Statements and Entries

Alabama § 27-12-7

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 27: Insurance
• Ch. 12: Trade Practices Law

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(a) No person shall file with any supervisory or other public official or make, publish, disseminate, circulate, or deliver to any person or place before the public, or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, delivered to any person, or placed before the public, any false statement of financial condition of an insurer with intent to deceive.
(b) No person shall make any false entry in any book, report, or statement of any insurer with intent to deceive any agent or examiner lawfully appointed to examine into its condition or into any of its affairs, or any public official to whom such insurer is required by law to report, or who has authority by law to examine into its condition or into any of its affairs or, with like intent, willfully omit to make a true entry of any material fact pertaining to the business of such insurer in any book, report, or statement of such insurer.
(c) Any insurer willfully making a false annual or other statement required of it under this title and individuals knowingly making oath to and subscribing the same shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor exceeding $5,000.00.

Legislative History

(Acts 1957, No. 608, p. 865, §4; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §233.)