Insurance: agents and brokers.

Existing law generally regulates the conduct of business between insurers and broker-agents. Under existing law, when a broker-agent's contract is terminated, the rights, duties, and obligations set forth in the terminated contract continue solely with respect to policies then in force or renewed, until those policies are canceled, placed by the broker-agent with another insurer, or have expired, as provided. Existing law requires that if the terminated broker-agent is unable to place existing policies with another insurer, the insurer shall, at the broker-agent's request, renew any insurance contract written by the broker-agent for one policy term or a period of one year, whichever is…