A recent caller to the Free Legal Service Program that I operate for members of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia asked a question I had heard several times before with slight variations.  The essence of the question is whether an insurance agent can disclose information about a customer’s insurance policy to a third party, […]

Almost three years ago, I wrote a post titled, “Must an Agency Website Contain a Privacy Statement?“.   My conclusion was that such a statement was required only if the website could be used to collect “nonpublic personal information” about someone who visited it.  This would be the case, for example, if a potential customer […]

In my last post, I talked about the hands free, or distracted driving, law that took effect on July 1, 2018.  That law was probably the most widely publicized new law passed by this year’s General Assembly and for good reason.  However, there was another new law specifically affecting the sale of health insurance that […]