RCW 48.44.011
Agent -- Definition -- License required -- Application, issuance, renewal, fees -- Penalties involving license. (Effective until July 1, 2009.)

(1) Agent, as used in this chapter, means any person appointed or authorized by a health care service contractor to solicit applications for health care service contracts on its behalf.

     (2) No person shall act as or hold himself out to be an agent of a health care service contractor unless licensed as a disability insurance agent by this state and appointed by the health care service contractor on whose behalf solicitations are to be made.

     (3) Applications, appointments, and qualifications for licenses, the renewal thereof, the fees and issuance of a license, and the renewal thereof shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance agent.

     (4) A person holding a valid license in this state as a health care service contractor agent on July 24, 1983, is not required to requalify by an examination for the renewal of the license.

     (5) The commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew any agent's license, or levy a fine upon the licensee, in accordance with those provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance agent.

[1983 c 202 § 1; 1969 c 115 § 7.]

     RCW 48.44.011
Insurance producer -- Definition -- License required -- Application, issuance, renewal, fees -- Penalties involving license. (Effective July 1, 2009.)

(1) Insurance producer, as used in this chapter, means any person appointed or authorized by a health care service contractor to solicit applications for health care service contracts on its behalf.

     (2) No person shall act as or hold himself or herself out to be an appointed insurance producer of a health care service contractor unless licensed as a disability insurance producer by this state and appointed by the health care service contractor on whose behalf solicitations are to be made.

     (3) Applications, appointments, and qualifications for licenses, the renewal thereof, the fees and issuance of a license, and the renewal thereof shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance producer.

     (4) The commissioner may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew any insurance producer's license, or levy a fine upon the licensee, in accordance with those provisions of chapter 48.17 RCW that are applicable to a disability insurance producer.

[2008 c 217 § 50; 1983 c 202 § 1; 1969 c 115 § 7.]

NOTES:

     Severability -- Effective date -- 2008 c 217: See notes following RCW 48.03.020.