O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 33-6-6 (2019)

Power of Commissioner as to investigation of unfair or deceptive acts or practices generally

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The Commissioner shall have the power to examine and investigate into the affairs of every person engaged in the business of insurance in this state in order to determine whether the person has been or is engaged in any unfair method of competition or in any unfair or deceptive act or practice prohibited by this chapter.

(b) In addition to any other authority granted to the Commissioner by this title and in addition to those reports required by Code Section 33-3-21, the Commissioner may require persons engaged in the busi237 ness of insurance in this state to file reports by postal ZIP Code, where appropriate, or in any other format to enable the Commissioner to determine readily if such person has been or is engaged in any unfair method of competition or in any unfair or deceptive act or practice prohibited by this article.

History

Code 1933, § 56-705, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L.

1978, p. 2016, § 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 3048, § 4.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 43 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance, § 20 et seq.

C.J.S. - 44 C.J.S., Insurance, § 63 et seq.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1994–1994 · leading case: Colonial Life & Accident Ins. v. Am. Fam. Life Assurance Co., 846 F. Supp. 454 (D.S.C. 1994).

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Colonial Life & Accident Ins. v. Am. Fam. Life Assurance Co., 846 F. Supp. 454 (D.S.C. 1994). “and Ga.Code Ann. §§ 33-6-6 to -9 empower the state insurance commission to regulate insurance industry advertising practices.”

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