Common use of Level Playing Field Clause in Contracts

Level Playing Field. (a) The Seller shall cause the Seller Distributors not to provide to the Sales Force or the DAS any compensation or other economic inducement or benefit for the sale of comparable products sold in a comparable sales support and compensation framework offered by a Third Party Insurer that is more favorable than the compensation or other economic inducement or benefit provided to such Sales Force for the sale of such products offered by a Buyer Insurer. (b) The terms of this Section 5.6 shall not restrict deviations in Sales Force compensation that are (i) based upon neutral criteria that do not differentiate between product providers, such as achieving sales volume or persistency objectives, or (ii) for products (including combined product and service arrangements) for which distributor compensation is negotiated by the provider on a sale-by-sale basis, such as group retirement products.