Commonwealth v. Hammer

Citations

• 11 Pa. Super. 138
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 118

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Representing foreign insurance company — Act of 1893.</p> <p>The fact that a person represents himself as the agent of an insurance company of another state, which has not complied with the laws of this state, as an adjuster of that company and does adjust and pay certain claims due by such company, does not make him guilty of a misdemeanor within the meaning of the Act of May 10, 1893, P. L. 38.</p> <p>The object of the act was to prohibit one advertising himself as agent, etc., in some unauthorized matter which the law prohibited the company or an insurance agent to do ; the payment or adjustment of a loss is not such prohibited matter.</p>