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HRS §431:4-125

Rules on fees for insurance company money

This section stops people who manage an insurance company's money from taking personal payments or gifts related to their investment decisions. It also lets the insurance commissioner create rules for paying outside directors reasonable fees for their work.

employees

The statute, as written — Fees on use of funds

(a) No director, officer or employee having any authority in the investment or disposition of the funds of a domestic insurer shall accept, except on behalf of the insurer, or be the beneficiary of any fee, brokerage, gift, or other emolument because of any investment, loan, deposit, purchase, sale, payment, or exchange made by or for the insurer. (b) The commissioner may adopt rules to define and permit additional exceptions to the prohibition in subsection (a), solely to enable payment of reasonable compensation to a director who is not otherwise an officer or employee of the insurer, for necessary services performed or sales or purchases made to or for the insurer in the ordinary course of the insurer's business and in the usual private professional or business capacity of such director.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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