Rule 120-2-12-.19 - Insurers' Responsibility and Control; Advertising File; Certificate of Compliance1. All advertisements, regardless of by whom written, created or designed, shall be the responsibility of the insurer sponsoring the same. Every insurer shall at all times maintain complete control over the content, form and method of dissemination of all advertisements of its contracts.2. Each insurer shall maintain at its home or principal office a complete file containing every printed, published or prepared advertisement of individual policies and typical printed, published or prepared advertisements of blanket, franchise and group policies hereafter disseminated in this State, with a notation attached to each such advertisement which shall indicate the manner and extent of distribution and the form number of any policy advertised. Such file shall be subject to regular and periodic inspection at the discretion of this Department. All such advertisements shall be maintained in said file for a period of not less than five (5) years.3. Each insurer required to file an Annual Statement with this Department must file, together with its Annual Statement, a Certificate executed by an authorized officer of the insurer wherein it is stated that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, the advertisements disseminated by the insurer during the preceding calendar year complied, or were made to comply in all respects, with the provisions of the Insurance Laws of this State as implemented and interpreted by this Regulation.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 120-2-12-.19
Ga. L. 1960, pp. 289 to 755.
Original Rule entitled "Implication That Benefits of Two or More Policies Are Offered and Only One Policy Prohibited" adopted. F. and eff. July 20, 1965.Repealed: New Rule entitled "Insurers' Responsibility and Control; Advertising File; Certificate of Compliance" adopted. F. May 29, 1973; eff. June 18, 1973.Submitted for Publishing: Mar. 7, 2007.