Unauthorized insurance, annuity or variable annuity contracts; prohibition

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MA Code › Part I › Title XXII › Chapter 175 › Section 3

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Section 3. No company shall make a contract of insurance or annuity, including any such insurance or annuity contract which is a contract on a variable basis, upon or relative to any property or interests or lives in the commonwealth, or with any resident thereof, and no person shall negotiate, solicit, sell or in any manner aid in the transaction of such contracts, or of their continuance or renewal, except as authorized by this chapter or chapter one hundred and seventy-six, or except as otherwise expressly authorized by law; and any such contract and the negotiation, solicitation, sale or transaction thereof by any person shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and ten A.

Section 3. No company shall make a contract of insurance or annuity, including any such insurance or annuity contract which is a contract on a variable basis, upon or relative to any property or interests or lives in the commonwealth, or with any resident thereof, and no person shall negotiate, solicit, sell or in any manner aid in the transaction of such contracts, or of their continuance or renewal, except as authorized by this chapter or chapter one hundred and seventy-six, or except as otherwise expressly authorized by law; and any such contract and the negotiation, solicitation, sale or transaction thereof by any person shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and ten A.

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Unauthorized insurance, annuity or variable annuity contracts; prohibition · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 175, sec. 3 | Frix