134.10 Invading right to choose insurance agent or insurer by persons engaged in financing.

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(1)Any person engaged in the business of financing the purchase of real or personal property or of lending money on the security of real or personal property, and any trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any such person, who requires, or conspires with another to require, as a condition precedent to financing the purchase of such property or to loaning money upon the security of a mortgage thereon, or as a condition prerequisite for the renewal or extension of any such loan or mortgage or for the performance of any other act in connection therewith, that the person for whom such purchase is to be financed or to whom the money is to be loaned or for whom such extension, renewal or other act is to be granted or performed, negotiate any policy of insurance or renewal thereof covering such property through a particular insurance agent, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 6 months or both.

(2)It is the duty of every person engaged in such business and of every trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any such person, when financing the purchase of such property or loaning money upon the security of a mortgage thereon, or renewing or extending any such loan or mortgage, or performing any other act in connection therewith, to advise the person for whom such purchase is to be financed or to or for whom the money is to be loaned or for whom such extension, renewal or other act is to be granted or performed, that the person is free to choose the insurance agent or insurer through which the insurance covering such property is to be negotiated.

(3)This section shall not be construed to prevent the reasonable exercise of any person so engaged, or his or her trustee, director, officer, agent or employee, of his or her right to approve or disapprove the insurer selected to underwrite the insurance or to determine the adequacy of the insurance offered.