A.__Acts or omissions committed by any person who, knowingly or with intent to defraud, for the purpose of depriving another of property or for pecuniary gain, commits, or permits its employees or its agents to engage in, acts including:

(1)__Presenting, causing to be presented or preparing with knowledge or belief that it will be presented to or by a settlement provider, settlement producer, financing entity, insurer, insurance producer or any other person false material information, or concealing material information, as part of, in support of or concerning a fact material to one or more of the following:

(a)__An application for the issuance of a settlement contract or insurance policy;

(b)__The underwriting of a settlement contract or insurance policy;

(c)__A claim for payment or benefit pursuant to a settlement contract or insurance policy;

(d)__Premiums paid on an insurance policy;

(e)__Payments and changes in ownership or beneficiary made in accordance with the terms of a settlement contract or insurance policy;

(f)__The reinstatement or conversion of an insurance policy;

(g)__The solicitation, offer, effectuation or sale of a settlement contract or insurance policy;

(h)__The issuance of written evidence of a settlement contract or insurance policy; or

(i)__A financing transaction; or

(2)__Employing any device, scheme or artifice to defraud related to policies acquired pursuant to a settlement contract;