State Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi has issued a cease and desist order against three out-of-state companies that have been marketing health insurance products to Connecticut consumers without a proper license.
They include North Carolina-based Metropolitan Business Alliance, doing business as the National Association of Business Leadership (NABL); New Jersey-based Hudson Valley Consultants (HVC), doing business as CEO Club Benefits; Kevin Dunn, of Montville, N.J., NABL president and managing consultant of HVC.
The order requires the companies to immediately stop any solicitations, including Internet solicitations, sales or negotiations of health insurance or health discount programs in Connecticut and to Connecticut consumers.
Leonardi said the companies, which have largely marketed over the Internet, have 30 days to provide to the Department a list of all Connecticut consumers who have enrolled in these unlicensed plans. According to the order, the Department may also seek civil penalties.
The cease and desist order comes on the heels of a consumer alert issued this week by the insurance department that identifies several unlicensed or unauthorized entities that have been known to market health insurance, limited medical plans or medical discount cards through Web sites, by phone, e-mail and by fax.
They include:
•·        Metropolitan Business Alliance LLC
•·        United States Contractors Association
•·        United States Contractors Trust
•·        Viking Administrators, LLC
•·        Association of Independent Managers
•·        Integrated Insurance Marketing, Inc
•·        AIM Health Plans, Inc
•·        Insurance Resource Group
•·        Venture Support Group, LLC
•·        Southeast Insurance Advisors, LLC
•·        Wilshire Holding, LLC
•·        World Wide Family Benefits Association, Inc.
