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27-22-42
Section 27-22-42 Policyholders Bill of Rights. The following shall serve as the minimum
standards to be followed by the Alabama Department of Insurance in exercising the department's
powers and duties in regulating insurance companies pursuant to Chapter 12. The Department
of Insurance and insurance companies shall post this list or an electronic link of this list
on their respective websites. These standards include the following: (1) Policyholders shall
have the right to competitive pricing practices of insurers as prescribed by applicable federal
or state insurance law and regulation. (2) Policyholders shall have the right to insurance
advertising and sales approaches that provide representative information on the policy in
accordance with Chapter 12. (3) Policyholders shall have the right to assurance that the insurance
market in general and their insurance company in particular are financially stable as provided
in Section 27-12-7. (4) Policyholders shall have the right to receive...
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25-5-8
Section 25-5-8 Employers' options to secure payment of compensation. (a) Option to insure
risks. An employer subject to this chapter may secure the payment of compensation under this
chapter by insuring and keeping insured his or her liability in some insurance corporation,
association, organization, insurance association, corporation, or association formed of employers
and workers or formed by a group of employers to insure the risks under this chapter, operating
by mutual assessment or other plans or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the insurance
association, organization, or corporation shall have first had its contract and plan of business
approved in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance of Alabama and have
been authorized by the Department of Insurance to transact the business of workers' compensation
insurance in this state and under the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law
to the contrary, the obligations of employers under law for...
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27-44-8
Section 27-44-8 Powers and duties of association. (a) If a member insurer is an impaired
insurer, the association may, in its discretion and subject to any conditions imposed by the
association that do not impair the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer, and that
are approved by the commissioner: (1) Guarantee or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed,
or reinsured, any or all of the covered policies of the impaired insurers. (2) Provide such
moneys, pledges, notes, guarantees, or other means as are proper to effectuate subdivision
(1), and assure payment of the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer pending action
under subdivision (1). (b) If a member insurer is an insolvent insurer, the association shall,
in its discretion and subject to the approval of the commissioner, do either of the following:
(1)a. Guarantee, assume, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured, the
covered policies of the insolvent insurer. b. Assure payment of the...
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27-31B-3
Section 27-31B-3 Licensing. (a) Any captive insurance company, when permitted by its
articles of association, charter, or other organizational document, may apply to the commissioner
for a license to do any and all insurance defined in Sections 27-5-2, 27-5-4, and 27-5-5,
in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14) of
subsection (a) of Section 27-5-6, in Sections 27-5-7, 27-5-8, 27-5-9, and 27-5-10,
and to grant annuity contracts as defined in Section 27-5-3, subject, however, to all
of the following: (1) No pure captive insurance company may insure any risks other than those
of its parent and affiliated companies or controlled unaffiliated business. (2) No association
captive insurance company may insure any risks other than those of the member organizations
of its association, and their affiliated companies. (3) No industrial insured captive insurance
company may insure any risks other than those of the industrial insureds that comprise...
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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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36-25-4
Section 36-25-4 State Ethics Commission - Duties; complaint; investigation; hearings;
fees; finding of violation. (a) The commission shall do all of the following: (1) Prescribe
forms for statements required to be filed by this chapter and make the forms available to
persons required to file such statements. (2) Prepare guidelines setting forth recommended
uniform methods of reporting for use by persons required to file statements required by this
chapter. (3) Accept and file any written information voluntarily supplied that exceeds the
requirements of this chapter. (4) Develop, where practicable, a filing, coding, and cross-indexing
system consistent with the purposes of this chapter. (5) Make reports and statements filed
with the commission available during regular business hours and online via the Internet to
public inquiry subject to such regulations as the commission may prescribe. (6) Preserve reports
and statements for a period consistent with the statute of limitations as...
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10A-1-1.03
Section 10A-1-1.03 Definitions. As used in this title, unless the context otherwise
requires, the following terms mean: (1) AFFILIATE. A person who controls, is controlled by,
or is under common control with another person. An affiliate of an individual includes the
spouse, or a parent or sibling thereof, of the individual, or a child, grandchild, sibling,
parent, or spouse of any thereof, of the individual, or an individual having the same home
as the individual, or a trust or estate of which an individual specified in this sentence
is a substantial beneficiary; a trust, estate, incompetent, conservatee, protected person,
or minor of which the individual is a fiduciary; or an entity of which the individual is director,
general partner, agent, employee or the governing authority or member of the governing authority.
(2) ASSOCIATE. When used to indicate a relationship with: (A) a domestic or foreign entity
for which the person is: (i) an officer or governing person; or (ii) a beneficial...
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25-5-318
Section 25-5-318 One-time discount to small employers. (a) For purposes of this article,
"small employer" means an employer who is not experienced-rated for workers' compensation
insurance purposes and whose annual workers' compensation premium is less than $5,000.00.
(b) The Department of Insurance shall promulgate a plan by which all insurance companies writing
workers' compensation insurance in this state shall grant a one-time discount to small employers
who qualify under this article and by which surcharges are assessed against small employers
who experience two or more employee on-the-job injuries resulting in payment of indemnity
or medical payments during a one-year period. (c) A small employer who has not experienced
an employee on-the-job injury resulting in payment of indemnity or medical payments during
the most recent one-year period for which statistics are available shall receive a one-time
discount of 10 percent on the amount of the employer's workers' compensation...
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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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41-15-4
Section 41-15-4 Value for which state property to be insured; annual certification;
gap coverage and gap plus coverage; survey of public property; sale or salvage of insured
items. (a) All covered property, unless otherwise provided in this section, shall be
insured for no more than its replacement cost and shall be insured for no less than 80 percent
of its actual cash value. Replacement cost coverage may be provided with an amount of insurance
as agreed upon by the proper insuring authority and the risk manager based upon a written
statement of values. Replacement cost shall be the cost to repair or replace property with
comparable materials of like kind and quality by generally accepted construction methods or
technology to serve the same function as the lost or damaged property. No payment for a loss
shall exceed the limit of the policy. (b) The officer or person having charge by law of insuring
any public building, contents, machinery, and equipment shall annually certify to the...
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