Iowa Admin. Code r. 191-103.6 - Prohibited acts or practices
(1)
Defamation. A service company is prohibited from, directly or
indirectly, doing, or aiding, abetting or encouraging, the following: the
making, publishing, disseminating, or circulating of any oral or written
statement, or of any pamphlet, circular, article or literature which is false
or maliciously critical as to the financial condition of any person and which
is calculated to injure that person.
(2)
Boycott, coercion, and
intimidation. A service company is prohibited from entering into any
agreement to commit, or by any concerted action committing, any act of boycott,
coercion, or intimidation resulting in or tending to result in unreasonable
restraint of, or monopoly in, the service contract industry.
(3)
False statements. A
service company is prohibited from knowingly filing with any supervisory or
other public official, or knowingly making or causing directly or indirectly to
be made, published, disseminated, circulated, delivered to any person, or
placed before the public, any false material statement of fact as to the
financial condition of a person.
(4)
False entries. A service
company is prohibited from knowingly making any false entry of a material fact
in any book, report or statement of any person and from knowingly omitting to
make a true entry of any material fact pertaining to the business of that
person in any book, report or statement of that person.
(5)
Misrepresentation, false
advertising, and unfair practices.
a. A service company shall not:
(1) Use in its name, contracts, or
literature, any of the words "insurance," "casualty," "surety," "mutual," or
any other words descriptive of the insurance, casualty or surety business or
deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety
corporation, or any other service company. This subparagraph does not apply to
a service company also licensed as an insurance company.
(2) Represent or imply in any manner that the
service company has been sponsored or recommended, or that the service
company's abilities or qualifications have in any respect been passed upon, by
the division or by the state of Iowa. Nothing in this subrule prohibits a
statement, other than in a paid advertisement, that a person has received a
license, if the statement is true in fact and if the effect of the license's
issuance is not misrepresented.
(3)
Without the written consent of the customer, knowingly charge for duplication
of coverage or duties required by state or federal law, or duplication of a
warranty expressly issued by a manufacturer or seller of a product or any
implied warranty enforceable against the lessor, seller or manufacturer of a
product.
(4) Make, permit or cause
any false or misleading statements, either oral or written, in connection with
the sale, offer to sell or advertisement of a service contract.
(5) Permit or cause the omission of any
material statement that, under the circumstances, should have been made in
connection with the sale, offer to sell, or advertisement of a service
contract, in order that other statements also made in connection with the sale,
offer to sell or advertisement of a service contract would not be
misleading.
(6) Make, permit or
cause any false or misleading statements, either oral or written, about the
benefits or services available under the service contract.
(7) Make, permit or cause any statement or
practice which has the effect of creating or maintaining a fraud.
(8) Cause, directly or indirectly, to be
made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public in a
newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a notice, circular,
pamphlet, letter or poster, or over any radio or television station, or in any
other way, an advertisement, announcement or statement containing any
assertion, representation, or statement with respect to the service contract
industry or with respect to any service company which is untrue, deceptive or
misleading.
(9) Require the use of
used parts in the repair of a motor vehicle covered by a motor vehicle service
contract unless the service company has obtained prior written authorization by
the vehicle owner or unless all of the following are true regarding any rebuilt
parts:
1. The parts have been dismantled and
reconstructed as necessary.
2. All
of the internal and external parts have been cleaned and made free from rust
and corrosion.
3. All impaired,
defective, or substantially worn parts have been restored to a sound condition
or replaced with new, rebuilt, or unimpaired used parts.
4. All rewinding or machining or other
necessary operations have been performed.
5. The rebuilt parts have been put in working
condition, using, as minimum standards, the manufacturer's performance
specifications in existence when the parts were originally manufactured if
those specifications are publicly available.
b. Rescinded IAB 6/19/19, effective
5/20/19.
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