MGA Agreement definition
Examples of MGA Agreement in a sentence
The MGA Agreement shall provide, to the extent possible, for the payment of a commission to the managing general agent, which provides for equivalent economic benefit as the Ceding Commission provides.
Capitalized terms have the same definitions as are found in the MGA Agreement.
All services related to claims, underwriting and administration with respect to Policies reinsured hereunder shall be provided by National General pursuant to the PL MGA Agreement.
During the term of this Agreement, Manager shall receive (a) a commission equal to 10% of all business written, (b) the amount of commissions payable to producing Agents for all business written and (c) an allocated portion of the Loss Adjustment Expenses paid by the Manager pursuant to the Cut-Through MGA Agreement.
It makes this argument despite the merger clause contained in the MGA Agreement, and claims that these missing terms necessitate consideration of extrinsic evidence in order to construe the contract in keeping with the parties’ intent at the time it was signed.
The relationship deteriorated to the point that, in April of 2001, Founders sent LIAC a letter stating that it intended to terminate the MGA Agreement as of September 30, 2001, but also that it hoped to negotiate “another mutually satisfactory Agreement.”LIAC filed suit against Founders in the Wayne County (Michigan) Circuit Court in July of 2001.
As a result, LIAC argues that when Founders did not process applications promptly or mail invoices in time for the insured to pay before the next premium due date, Founders breached the MGA Agreement.Founders’s response rests heavily on the presence of the merger clause in the MGA Agreement.
Managing General Agent Agreement Effective September 10, 2000, the Company entered into an MGA Agreement with its affiliate, ASIU.
Although the MGA Agreement did not identify LIAC as Founders’s exclusive broker in Michigan, the parties did agree that Founders would not appoint any other producer or managing general agent in Michigan at a commission rate equal to or lower than the rate paid to LIAC.
The merger clause states in no uncertain terms that the MGA Agreement represented the “entire agreement” between the parties and that it “supersede[d] any prior agreements between them.” Founders asserts that LIAC’s inability to identify any specific provision of the MGA Agreement that Founders breached dooms the breach-of-contract claim on appeal.