(a) Advertising file.
- (1) Each insurer shall maintain at its home or principal office a complete file containing every printed, published, or prepared advertisement of its individual policies and typical printed, published, or prepared advertisements of its blanket, franchise, and group policies hereafter disseminated in this or any other state, whether or not licensed in such other state, with a notation attached to each such advertisement that shall indicate the manner and extent of distribution and the form number of any policy advertised.
- (2) Such file shall be subject to regular and periodic inspection by the State Insurance Department.
- (3) All such advertisements shall be maintained in said file for a period of either four (4) years or until the filing of the next regular report on examination of the insurer, whichever is the longer period of time.
- (b) Certificate of compliance. Each insurer required to file an annual statement that is now or that hereafter becomes subject to the provisions of this part must file with the department, with its annual statement, a certificate of compliance executed by an authorized officer of the insurer wherein it is stated that, to the best of his or her knowledge, information, and belief, the advertisements which were disseminated by the insurer during the preceding statement year complied or were made to comply in all respects with the provisions of this part and the insurance laws of this state as implemented and interpreted by this part.