27-27-15
Section 27-27-15 Domestic mutual insurers - Authorization to transact insurance. (a) When newly organized, a domestic mutual insurer may be authorized to transact any one of the kinds of insurance listed in the schedule contained in subsection (b) of this section. (b) When applying for an original certificate of authority, the insurer must be otherwise qualified therefor under this title and must have received and accepted bona fide applications as to substantial insurable subjects for insurance coverage of a substantial character of the kind of insurance proposed to be transacted, must have collected in cash the full premium therefor at a rate not less than that usually charged by other insurers for comparable coverages, must have surplus funds on hand and deposited as of the date such insurance coverages are to become effective or, in lieu of such applications, premiums and surplus and may deposit surplus, all in accordance with that part of the following schedule which applies to...
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27-7-4.4
Section 27-7-4.4 Fingerprints. (a) In order to make a determination of insurance producer license eligibility, the commissioner is authorized to require fingerprints of initial resident applicants for an insurance producer license and to submit the fingerprints and the fee required to perform the criminal history record checks to the Alabama Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for state and national criminal history record checks. (b) The commissioner shall require a criminal history record check on each initial resident applicant for insurance producer license in accordance with this section. The commissioner shall require each applicant to submit a full set of fingerprints, including a scanned file from a hard copy fingerprint, in order for the commissioner to obtain and receive national criminal history records from the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division. (c) The commissioner may contract for the collection, transmission, and...
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27-19-105
Section 27-19-105 Regulations for long-term care policies; outline of coverage, policy summary, and monthly report. (a) The commissioner may adopt regulations that include standards for full and fair disclosure setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for the sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents, preexisting conditions, termination of insurance, continuation or conversion, probationary periods, limitations, exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement, recurrent conditions, and definitions of terms. Regulations under this subsection should recognize the developing and unique nature of long-term care insurance and the distinction between group and individual long-term insurance policies. (b) No long-term care insurance policy may do any of the following: (1) Be cancelled, nonrenewed, or otherwise...
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27-15-53
Section 27-15-53 Requirements for death master file comparisons. (a) An insurer shall perform a comparison of its insureds' in-force life insurance policies, annuity contracts, and retained asset accounts against a death master file, to identify potential death master file matches of its insureds. Such comparison shall be completed by January 1, 2019. Thereafter, an insurer shall maintain a program designed to compare each such policy, contract, or account with a death master file no less frequently than every three years, it being the intent that insurers fashion a program that best fits their business systems while at the same time protecting consumers by assuring reasonable checks are being performed to identify unreported deaths. For those potential death master file matches identified as a result of a death master file comparison, the insurer shall do all of the following: (1) Within 90 days of a death master file match: a. Complete a commercially reasonable effort, which shall be...
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27-6A-2
Section 27-6A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ACTUARY. A person who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries. (2) INSURER. A person defined in subdivisions (2) and (3) of Section 27-1-2. (3) MANAGING GENERAL AGENT. Any person, firm, or association who does both of the following: a. Manages all or part of the insurance business of an insurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office. b. Acts as a producer for an insurer whether known as a managing general agent, manager, or other similar term, who, with or without the authority, either separately or together with affiliates, produces, directly or indirectly, and underwrites an amount of gross direct written premium equal to or more than five percent of the policyholder surplus as reported in the last annual statement of the insurer in any one...
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19-3-125
Section 19-3-125 Life, endowment, or annuity contracts. In addition to any other investment now permitted by law, a guardian or trustee may invest the funds of his ward or of the beneficiary of the trust in life, endowment or annuity contracts of legal reserve life insurance companies duly qualified and authorized to write such business in the State of Alabama; provided, however, that the annual premium or premiums on such contracts purchased by such guardian or trustee shall not exceed 25 percent of the income of the ward or the beneficiary for any calendar year preceding the date of such purchase. The contract must contain the following options after it has been in force for three years or less: a cash surrender value option, a paid-up insurance or endowment option, and an extended insurance or endowment option. Such contract may be issued on the life or lives of the ward or wards, or beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust or upon the life or lives of persons in whose life or...
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27-31A-4
Section 27-31A-4 Risk retention groups not chartered in this state. Risk retention groups chartered and licensed in states other than this state and seeking to do business as a risk retention group in this state shall comply with the laws of this state as follows: (1) NOTICE OF OPERATIONS AND DESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER AS AGENT. a. Before offering insurance in this state, a risk retention group shall submit to the commissioner both of the following: 1. A statement identifying the state or states in which the risk retention group is chartered and licensed as a liability insurance company, charter date, its principal place of business, and other information, including information on its membership, as the commissioner of this state may require to verify that the risk retention group is qualified pursuant to subdivision (11) of Section 27-31A-2. 2. A copy of its plan of operations or feasibility study and revisions of the plan or study submitted to the state in which the risk retention...
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27-6B-2
Section 27-6B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ACCREDITED STATE. A state in which the Department of Insurance meets the minimum financial qualifications and regulatory standards promulgated and established, from time to time, by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Insurance. (3) CONTROL or CONTROLLED. The same as defined in Section 27-29-1. (4) CONTROLLED INSURER. A licensed insurer who is controlled, directly or indirectly, by a producer. (5) CONTROLLING PRODUCER. A producer who, directly or indirectly, controls an insurer. (6) LICENSED INSURER or INSURER. Any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed to transact a property and casualty insurance business in this state. For the purposes of this chapter, the following are not licensed insurers: a. A residual market pool and a joint...
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27-32-6
Section 27-32-6 Grounds - Rehabilitation of domestic insurers. The commissioner may apply to the court for an order appointing him as receiver of, and directing him to rehabilitate, a domestic insurer upon one or more of the following grounds. That the insurer: (1) Is impaired or insolvent; (2) Has refused to submit any of its books, records, accounts, or affairs to reasonable examination by the commissioner; (3) Has concealed or removed records or assets or otherwise violated Section 27-27-29; (4) Has failed to comply with an order of the commissioner to make good an impairment of capital or surplus, or both; (5) Has transferred, or attempted to transfer, substantially its entire property or business or has entered into any transaction the effect of which is to merge substantially its entire property or business in that of any other insurer without having first obtained the written approval of the commissioner; (6) Has willfully violated its charter or articles of incorporation or any...
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27-12A-2
Section 27-12A-2 Insurance fraud - definition. A person commits the crime of insurance fraud if, knowingly and with intent to defraud, he or she commits, or conceals any material information concerning, one or more of the following acts: (1) The solicitation or acceptance of new or renewal insurance risks on behalf of an insurer, reinsurer, or other person engaged in the transaction of the business of insurance, by a person who knows the insurer, reinsurer, or other person responsible for the risk is financially unable to pay its claims at the time of the transaction. (2) The removal, concealment, alteration, or destruction of the assets or records relating to the transaction of the business of insurance of an insurer, reinsurer, or other person engaged in the transaction of the business of insurance. This section does not prohibit an insurer, reinsurer, or other person engaged in the transaction of the business of insurance from destroying records or documents relating to the...
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