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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27-12A-40
Section 27-12A-40 Creation of Insurance Fraud Unit. (a) There is hereby established within the department the Insurance Fraud Unit. The commissioner shall appoint the necessary full-time supervisory and investigative personnel of the unit who shall be qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of their positions. The commissioner shall furnish offices, equipment, operating expenses, and necessary personnel to maintain and operate the unit. (b) The unit shall perform all of the following duties: (1) Initiate independent inquiries and conduct independent investigations when the unit has cause to believe that any insurance fraud may be, is being, or has been, committed. (2) Review reports or complaints of alleged insurance fraud from federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies, persons engaged in the business of insurance, and the public to determine whether the reports or complaints require further investigation and, if so, to conduct these...
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27-29-4
Section 27-29-4 Registration of insurers. (a)(1) Every insurer which is authorized to do business in this state and which is a member of an insurance holding company system shall register with the commissioner, except a foreign insurer subject to registration requirements and standards adopted by statute or regulation in the jurisdiction of its domicile which are substantially similar to those contained in this section and both of the following: a. Subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of Section 27-29-5, and subsections (b) and (d) of Section 27-29-5. b. Either subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of Section 27-29-5 or a provision such as the following: Each registered insurer shall keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement by reporting all material changes or additions within 15 days after the end of the month in which it learns of each change or addition. (2) Any insurer which is subject to registration under this section shall register within 15...
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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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27-36A-15
Section 27-36A-15 Valuation manual for policies issued on or after the operative date of the valuation manual. (a) For policies issued on or after the operative date of the valuation manual, the standard prescribed in the valuation manual is the minimum standard of valuation required under subsection (b) of Section 27-36A-3, except as provided under subsection (e) or (g) of this section, Section 27-36A-19, or Section 27-36A-20. (b) The operative date of the valuation manual is January 1 of the first calendar year following the first July 1 as of which all of the following have occurred: (1) The valuation manual has been adopted by the NAIC by an affirmative vote of at least 42 members, or three-fourths of the members voting, whichever is greater. (2) The Standard Valuation Law, as amended by the NAIC in 2009, or legislation including substantially similar terms and provisions, has been enacted by states representing greater than 75 percent of the direct premiums written as reported in...
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8-35-1
Section 8-35-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CONSUMER. A natural person residing in this state. (2) CONSUMER CREDIT REPORT. A consumer report, as defined in 15 U.S.C. ยง1681a(d), that a consumer reporting agency furnishes to a person which it has reason to believe intends to use the information as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibility for credit to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. (3) CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY. Any person who, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit information or other information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer credit reports to third parties. (4) NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS. Any day between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 9:30 P.M., Central Standard Time. (5) PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate,...
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2-17-1
Section 2-17-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama or his duly authorized representative. (2) FIRM. Any partnership, association or other unincorporated business organization. (3) MEAT BROKER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person, firm or corporation. (4) POULTRY. Any live or slaughtered domesticated bird. (5) RENDERER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of rendering carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, goats,...
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2-25-3
Section 2-25-3 Power and duty of commissioner as to protection of agricultural and horticultural interests from plant pests and noxious weeds generally. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to protect the agricultural and horticultural interests of the state from plant pests and noxious weeds; and, to that end, he is vested with power and authority to: (1) Inspect or cause to be inspected by duly authorized employees, plants, plant products, places or other things and substances that may, in his opinion, be capable of disseminating or carrying plant pests or noxious weeds, and, for this purpose, he shall have power to enter into or upon any place and to open any bundle, package or other container containing or thought to contain plants or plant products or other things capable of disseminating or carrying plant pests or noxious weeds; (2) Supervise or cause the treatment, cutting and destruction of plants, plant parts, fruit, soil, containers, equipment, and other articles capable...
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27-1-22
Section 27-1-22 Uniform prescription drug information card or technology. (a) Every health benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs or devices, or administers a plan, including, but not limited to, third party administrators for self-insured plans and state administered plans, excluding the Alabama Medicaid Program, shall issue to its insureds a card or other technology containing prescription drug information. The uniform prescription drug information card or technology shall be in the format approved by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and shall include all of the required fields and conform to the most recent pharmacy ID card or technology implementation guide produced by NCPDP or conform to a national format acceptable to the Commissioner of Insurance. If a health care plan includes a conditional or situational field, it shall conform to the most recent pharmacy information card or technology implementation guide by the NCPDP or conform...
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27-2A-3
Section 27-2A-3 Materiality; scope; information to be reported. (a) Materiality. No acquisitions or dispositions of assets need be reported, pursuant to Section 27-2A-2, if the acquisitions or dispositions are not material. For purposes of this section, a material acquisition (or the aggregate of any series of related acquisitions during any 30-day period) or disposition (or the aggregate of any series of related dispositions during any 30-day period) is one that is nonrecurring and not in the ordinary course of business and involves more than five percent of the reporting insurer's total admitted assets as reported in its most recent statutory statement filed with the insurance department of the insurer's state of domicile. (b) Scope. (1) Asset acquisitions subject to this chapter include every purchase, lease, exchange, merger, consolidation, succession, or other acquisition, other than the construction or development of real property, by or for the reporting insurer or the...
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