Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                        CHAPTER 233-H.F.No. 444 
           An act relating to insurance; regulating funeral and 
          burial expenses; allowing persons to select funeral or 
          burial services and supplies of their choice; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 72A.325.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 72A.325, is 
amended to read:  
    72A.325 [INSURANCE FOR FUNERAL OR BURIAL EXPENSE; FREEDOM 
OF CHOICE.] 
    No insurance company doing business in this state, agent, 
or other person engaged in the business of providing insurance 
or other benefits for the payment of any funeral or burial 
expense, shall designate, endorse, or otherwise promote any 
particular mortician, funeral director, funeral establishment, 
cemetery, or any other party offering funeral or burial services 
or supplies, as the beneficiary or recipient of the benefits, so 
as to deprive the family, next of kin, or other representative 
of the deceased policyholder of the right to select the funeral 
or burial services and supplies of their choice.  No owner, 
director, or employee of a funeral establishment, or entity 
having a direct equity interest in a funeral establishment, 
shall receive any agent's fee, commission, or other 
reimbursement on any insurance sale facilitated through the 
funeral establishment.  
    No owner, director, or employee of a funeral establishment, 
nor trade association of funeral establishments shall receive 
any fee for endorsing insurance policies, plans, or services.  A 
trade association may not receive payment other than 
reimbursement for reasonable expenses of administering such a 
policy or services. 
    Approved May 26, 1987