Prohibited practices

(a) A viatical settlement agent, viatical settlement broker or viatical settlement provider shall not discriminate in the creation or solicitation of a viatical settlement contract on the basis of race, age, sex, national origin, creed, religion, occupation, marital or family status, sexual orientation, or based on whether the viator has children. (b) A viatical settlement agent, viatical settlement broker or viatical settlement provider shall not pay or offer to pay any finder's fee commission or other compensation to any viator's physician, attorney, accountant, or any other person providing financial planning services, legal services or medical services to the viator, or to any other person acting as an agent of the viator with respect to the viatical settlement transaction. (c) A viatical settlement provider shall not knowingly solicit investors who have treated or have been asked to treat the illness of the insured whose coverage would be the subject of the investment. (d) A viatical settlement provider shall not act also as a viatical settlement broker, whether entitled to collect a fee directly or indirectly, in the same viatical settlement. (e) A viatical settlement broker shall not, without the written agreement of the viator obtained prior to performing any services in connection with a viatical settlement, seek or obtain any compensation from the viator.