An agent is a person whose business is to continuously conclude or mediate insurance contracts for a specific insurer. He is an independent businessperson and is not an employee of the insurer. In principle, any individual, corporation, or unincorporated association or foundation may become an agent, except for certain persons specified by law. Insurance agents are regulated by the provisions of Part 3 of the Insurance Business Law and must be registered by the Prime Minister (Insurance Business Law, 276). If the insurer is a stock company, the agent is a merchant as an agent (Companies Law, 16), but if the insurer is a mutual company, the provisions of the Companies Law regarding agents apply mutatis mutandis to the agent (Insurance Business Law, 21). There are contracting agents who are authorized to conclude contracts and intermediary agents who only act as intermediaries, but non-life insurance agents generally have the authority to conclude non-life insurance contracts for non-life insurance companies. On the other hand, although life insurance agents were granted the right to act as intermediaries in concluding life insurance contracts for life insurance companies by the 1995 amendment to the Insurance Business Act, they are generally only authorized to act as intermediaries in concluding life insurance contracts for life insurance companies, and are generally subject to an exclusive contract with one life insurance company (Insurance Business Act, Article 282). This is because the insurance period for non-life insurance is short (one year or less, one voyage, one transportation section, etc.), and the conclusion of the contract must be prompt, whereas life insurance is a long-term contract and requires time for the conclusion of the contract, such as medical examinations. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
特定の保険者のために継続的に保険契約の締結または媒介をすることを業とする者で,独立の営業者であり,保険者の使用人ではない。法律で定める特定の者を除き,個人,法人または法人でない社団,もしくは財団であるとを問わず原則として代理店となることができる。保険代理店は保険業法の第3編の諸規定により規制されており,内閣総理大臣の登録を受けなければならない(保険業法276)。保険者が株式会社である場合は,代理店は代理商として商人であるが(会社法16),保険者が相互会社の場合には,代理店には代理商に関する会社法の規定が準用される(保険業法21)。契約締結の代理権を与えられた締約代理商と,媒介のみを行なう媒介代理商とがあるが,損害保険の代理店は損害保険会社のために損害保険締結の代理権を有するのが一般的である。他方,生命保険の代理店は,1995年の保険業法改正により契約締結の代理権を有することが認められたものの,通常は生命保険会社のために生命保険契約締結の媒介をする権限を有するにとどまり,また原則として生命保険会社 1社の専属制に服している(保険業法282)。これは,損害保険については保険期間が短期(1年もしくは 1年以内,1航海,1運送区間など)で迅速な契約締結を要するのに対して,生命保険は長期契約かつ医学的な診査など契約成立に日時を要するなどの事情による。
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