1. (a) An adjuster, appraiser, or insurance producer or employee of an insurer may not:

   1. (1) recommend the use of a specific repair service or source for the repair or replacement of property damage to a motor vehicle without informing the claimant or insured that the claimant or insured does not have to use the recommended repair service or source;
   2. (2) require that an appraisal or repair be made in a specific repair shop;
   3. (3) require that a claimant or insured use a specific contractor or repair shop for a repair service or repair product; or
   4. (4) intimidate, coerce, or threaten a claimant or insured to use a specific contractor or repair shop for a repair service or repair product.
2. (b) An adjuster or appraiser may not accept a gratuity or other form of remuneration from a repair service for recommending that repair service to a claimant or insured.

Added by Acts 1995, c. 36, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2001, c. 731, § 1, eff. July 2, 2001.

Formerly Art. 48A, § 490Q.