JurisdictionCaliforniaCode INSInsurance Code - INS
Div. 5.DIVISION 5. INSURANCE ADJUSTERS
Ch. 1.CHAPTER 1. Insurance Adjuster Act
Art. 5.ARTICLE 5. Disciplinary Proceedings
This text of California § 14064. (14064. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 707, Sec. 7.)) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
The commissioner may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter or may issue a restricted license in accordance with Section 14026.5 if the commissioner determines that the licensee, or his or her manager, if an individual, or if the licensee is a person other than an individual, that any of its officers, directors, partners, or its manager, has committed any act in the course of the licensee’s business constituting dishonesty or fraud.
“Dishonesty or fraud” as used in this section includes, in addition to other acts not specifically enumerated herein, all of the following:
(a)Knowingly making a false statement relating to evidence or information obtained in the course of employment, or knowingly publishing a slander or a libel in the course of business.
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The commissioner may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter or may issue a restricted license in accordance with Section 14026.5 if the commissioner determines that the licensee, or his or her manager, if an individual, or if the licensee is a person other than an individual, that any of its officers, directors, partners, or its manager, has committed any act in the course of the licensee’s business constituting dishonesty or fraud.
“Dishonesty or fraud” as used in this section includes, in addition to other acts not specifically enumerated herein, all of the following:
(a)
Knowingly making a false statement relating to evidence or information obtained in the course of employment, or knowingly publishing a slander or a libel in the course of business.
(b)
Using illegal means in the collection or attempted collection of a debt or obligation.
(c)
Manufacture of evidence.
(d)
Acceptance of employment adverse to a client or former client relating to a matter with respect to which the licensee has obtained confidential information by reason of or in the course of his or her employment by such client or former client.
(e)
Impersonating, or permitting or aiding and abetting an employee to impersonate a law enforcement officer or employee of the United States of America, or of any state or political subdivision thereof.