Insurance: unlawful financial benefits.

Existing law creates the Department of Insurance to regulate the business of insurance. Existing law makes it a crime for a person engaging in the practice of processing, presenting or negotiating claims for policies of insurance to offer, deliver, receive or accept consideration, as specified, as compensation for the referral or procurement of clients or cases, among others. Existing law makes it unlawful for an insurance agent or broker to receive financial benefit from an automobile repair facility, or other specified consideration, for referring insureds to the facility for vehicle repairs covered under certain specified insurance policies issued by the agent or broker. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.