27-15-25
Section 27-15-25 Contestability of reinstated policies. A reinstated policy of life insurance or annuity contract may be contested on account of fraud or misrepresentation of facts material to the reinstatement only for the same period following reinstatement and with the same conditions and exceptions as the policy provides with respect to contestability after original issuance. (Acts 1967, No. 181, p. 543; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §370.)...
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27-1-17
Section 27-1-17 Limitation periods for payment of claims; overdue claims; retroactive denials, adjustments, etc.; penalties. (a) Each insurer, health service corporation, and health benefit plan that issues or renews any policy of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses for its insured persons shall pay for services rendered by Alabama health care providers within 45 calendar days upon receipt of a clean written claim or 30 calendar days upon receipt of a clean electronic claim. If the insurer, health service corporation, or health benefit plan is denying or pending the claim, the insurer, health service corporation, or health benefit plan shall, within 45 calendar days for a written claim and 30 calendar days for an electronic claim, notify the health care provider or certificate holder of the reason for denying or pending the claim and what, if any, additional information is required to process the claim. Any undisputed portion of the claim...
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27-43-10
Section 27-43-10 Types of legal expense insurance; policy and certificate forms; issuance of policies and certificates. (a) Legal expense insurance may be written as individual, group, blanket, or franchise insurance. Each contractual obligation for legal expense insurance must be evidenced by a policy. Each person insured under a group policy must be issued a certificate of coverage. (b) No policy or certificate of legal expense insurance may be issued in this state unless a copy of the form has been filed and approved by the commissioner. (c) The commissioner may not approve any form that does not meet the following requirements: (1) Policies must contain a list and description of the legal service payments promised or the legal matters for which expenses are to be reimbursed and any limits on the amounts to be paid or reimbursed; (2) Policies and certificates must indicate the name of the insurer and the full address of its principal place of business; (3) Certificates issued under...
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8-32-5
Section 8-32-5 Required provisions, service contracts. (a) Service contracts sold or offered for sale in this state, in their entirety, shall be written, printed, or typed in eight point type size, or larger, and shall comply with the requirements set forth in this section, as applicable. (b) Service contracts insured under a reimbursement insurance policy pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (f) of Section 8-32-3 shall contain a statement in substantially the following form: "Obligations of the provider under this service contract are guaranteed under a service contract reimbursement insurance policy." If the provider fails to pay or to provide service on a claim within 60 days after proof of loss has been filed, the service contract holder is entitled to make a claim directly against the reimbursement insurance company. The service contract shall state the name and address of the reimbursement insurance company. (c) Service contracts not insured under a reimbursement insurance...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states; 4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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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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27-3-2
Section 27-3-2 Certificate of authority - Exceptions - Generally. A certificate of authority shall not be required of an insurer with respect to the following: (1) Transactions relative to its policies lawfully written in this state or liquidation of assets and liabilities of the insurer, other than collection of new premiums, all as resulting from its former authorized operations in this state; (2) Transactions thereunder subsequent to issuance of a policy covering only subjects of insurance not resident, located, or expressly to be performed in this state at time of issuance and lawfully solicited, written, or delivered outside this state; (3) Transactions pursuant to surplus lines coverages lawfully written under Chapter 10 of this title; and (4) Reinsurance. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §49.)...
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27-27-16
Section 27-27-16 Domestic mutual insurers - Bond or deposit in lieu thereof. (a) Before soliciting any applications for insurance required under Section 27-27-15, as qualification for the original certificate of authority, the incorporators of the proposed mutual insurer shall file with the commissioner a corporate surety bond in the penalty of $15,000.00 in favor of the State of Alabama and for the use and benefit of the state and of applicant members and creditors of the corporation. The bond shall be conditioned as follows: (1) Upon payment of any loss suffered by applicants who have cancelled or lapsed existing insurance policies due to misrepresentation by the incorporators or by persons soliciting such applications under authorization by the corporation, to the effect that the making of such application for insurance and prepayment of premiums in such proposed insurer provides insurance protection prior to issuance of a certificate of authority to such insurer by the...
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27-12-13
Section 27-12-13 Life, annuity, and disability insurance - Exceptions to discrimination, rebates, or special inducements. Nothing in Sections 27-12-11 and 27-12-12 shall be construed as including within the definition of discrimination, rebates, or special inducements any of the following practices: (1) In the case of any contract of life insurance or annuity, paying bonuses to policyholders or otherwise abating their premiums in whole or in part out of surplus accumulated from nonparticipating insurance, provided, that any such bonuses or abatement of premiums is fair and equitable to policyholders and for the best interests of the insurer and its policyholders; (2) In the case of life or disability insurance policies issued on the industrial debit or weekly premium plan, making allowance to policyholders who have continuously for a specified period made premium payments directly to an office of the insurer in an amount which fairly represents the saving in collection expense; (3)...
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