Missouri HB 2667: Requires insurance providers to offer an online service portal.

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2667
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GUNBY.
5577H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 375.158, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to insurer
services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 375.158, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 375.158, to read as follows:
375.158. 1. No insurer shall engage in the business of insurance in this state without first
2 complying with all the provisions of the laws of this state governing the business of insurance.
3 2. No insurer organized or incorporated under the laws of this state shall undertake any
4 business or risk except as provided by those laws. No insurer organized or incorporated by or
5 under the laws of this state or any other state of the United States or any foreign government,
6 transacting the business of life insurance, shall be permitted or allowed to take any other kind
7 of risks except those connected with or pertaining to making assurance on the life of a human
8 being and the granting, purchasing and disposing of annuities and endowments, and the making
9 of insurance against accident and sickness to persons by life or health or life and health insurers
10 as provided in sections 376.010 and 376.309.
11 3. No insurer doing business in this state shall pay any commission or other
12 compensation to any person or entity for any services, as insurance producer, in obtaining in this
13 state any contract of insurance except to a licensed insurance producer of the insurer and a
14 licensed business entity insurance producer.
15 4. All insurance producers shall offer an online communication portal that allows
16 clients to communicate through email or other electronic messaging, fill out and submit
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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17 forms, find contact information, monitor the status of claims and other matters, retrieve
18 records, submit payments, and perform other self-service actions.
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