During an annual policy review, a licensed agent discovers that a client holds a permanent life insurance policy with another carrier. The agent persuades the client to surrender this existing policy and purchase a new one by deliberately misrepresenting the new policy's benefits and hiding the fact that a new contestability period will apply. Under state insurance regulations, which illegal trade practice has the agent committed?
- TwistingCevap
- BRebating
- CCoercion
- DDefamation
Cevap
Twisting
The correct answer is twisting because it specifically refers to the unethical and illegal practice of making false, misleading, or incomplete statements to induce a policyholder to lapse, forfeit, surrender, or replace an existing insurance policy. By deliberately misrepresenting benefits and hiding the new contestability period to force a replacement, the agent engaged in this exact violation.
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Unfair Trade Practices: Twisting