27-10-3
Section 27-10-3 Actions by unauthorized insurers not allowed; exceptions. (a) No unauthorized insurer shall institute or file, or cause to be instituted or filed, any action or proceeding in this state to enforce any right, claim, or demand arising out of any insurance transaction in this state until such insurer has obtained a certificate of authority to transact such insurance in this state. (b) This section does not apply as to: (1) Transactions for which a certificate of authority is not required; (2) Surplus line coverages written under this chapter; or (3) Coverages exempted from the surplus line law under Section 27-10-34. (Acts 1963, No. 521, p. 1112, §6; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §193.)...
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27-6-1
Section 27-6-1 Deposits of insurers - Authorized deposits. The following deposits of insurers, when made through the commissioner, shall be accepted and held and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter: (1) Deposits required under this title for authority to transact insurance in this state; (2) Deposits of domestic insurers when made pursuant to the laws of other states, provinces, and countries as requirement for authority to transact insurance in such state, province, or country; (3) Deposits of reserves made by domestic life insurers under laws heretofore in force; and (4) Deposits in such additional amounts as are permitted to be made under Section 27-6-11. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §97.)...
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27-11-2
Section 27-11-2 Prohibition against transaction of insurance business, etc., in state without license; exceptions. It shall be unlawful for any insurer to transact the business of insurance in this state or to enter into a contract for insurance in this state without first obtaining a license or certificate of authority from the commissioner. This unauthorized insurers law shall not apply to: (1) Contracts of insurance procured pursuant to the surplus line insurance law; (2) Transactions in this state involving contracts of insurance lawfully entered into, written and the policy delivered outside of this state covering subjects of insurance not resident, located or expressly to be performed in this state at the time of issuance and transactions subsequent to the making of such contract and the issuance of such policy; (3) Reinsurance contracts; (4) Transactions in this state involving group or blanket insurance and group annuities where the master policy or contract was lawfully issued...
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27-27-32
Section 27-27-32 Contingent liability of members of domestic mutual insurers - Levy of assessments. (a) If at any time the assets of a domestic mutual insurer are less than its liabilities and the minimum amount of surplus required to be maintained by it under this title for authority to transact the kinds of insurance being transacted and the deficiency is not cured from other sources, its directors shall levy an assessment only upon its members who held policies providing for contingent liability at any time within the 12 months preceding the date notice of such assessment was mailed to them, and such members shall be liable to the insurer for the amount so assessed. (b) The assessment shall be for such an amount as is required to cure such deficiency and to provide a reasonable amount of working funds above such minimum amount of surplus, but such working funds so provided shall not exceed five percent of the insurer's liabilities as of the date as of which the amount of such...
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27-3-18
Section 27-3-18 Application for certificate of authority - Issuance or refusal; ownership of certificate. (a) If upon completion of the application for a certificate of authority the commissioner finds that the insurer has met the requirements for and is entitled thereto under this title, he shall issue to the insurer a proper certificate of authority; if he does not so find, the commissioner shall issue his order refusing such certificate. The commissioner shall act upon an application for a certificate of authority within a reasonable period after its completion. (b) The certificate, if issued, shall specify the kind, or kinds, of insurance the insurer is authorized to transact in this state. At the insurer's request, the commissioner may issue a certificate of authority limited to particular types of insurance or insurance coverages within the scope of a kind of insurance as defined in Chapter 5 of this title. (c) Although issued to the insurer, the certificate of authority is at...
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27-35-8
Section 27-35-8 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Completion; effect. (a) When a fraternal benefit society has complied with the provisions of this chapter and with the laws of this state relating to domestic stock life insurers or domestic mutual life insurers, as the case may be, and has received from the commissioner a certificate of authority to transact business in this state, its reorganization and conversion into such stock insurer or mutual insurer shall be complete. (b) The reorganized and converted corporation shall be deemed in law to be a continuation of the fraternal benefit society, whether the reorganization and conversion shall have been accomplished by the formation of a new corporation or by the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of the former society; and such reorganized and converted corporation shall succeed to, and become invested with, all and singular, the rights, privileges, franchises, and all property, real, personal, or...
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27-30-27
Section 27-30-27 Qualification of corporation for original certificate of authority. (a) When applying for an original certificate of authority, a domestic corporation formed to transact a mutual aid business on the mutual plan must be otherwise qualified therefor under this title, must have entered into bona fide agreements for insurance of the kind proposed to be transacted, with not less than 500 persons and must have received therefrom as initial premiums, fees, or contributions at rates theretofore filed with, and approved by, the commissioner as being both adequate and reasonable, not less than $25,000.00 in cash. (b) No such agreements shall be solicited, however, except pursuant to a solicitation permit granted by the commissioner as provided in Sections 27-27-4 through 27-27-7. (Acts 1939, No. 374, p. 502; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §585.)...
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27-35-6
Section 27-35-6 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Certificates of incorporation and authority. The society shall have corporate existence as a domestic stock or mutual life insurer upon issuance of the certificate of incorporation by the commissioner or approval of the amended articles of incorporation, as the case may be; but it shall not transact business as an insurer until all its authorized capital stock, if a stock insurer, has been subscribed and paid in full and it has otherwise qualified for, and received from the commissioner, a certificate of authority as provided in this title for legal reserve insurers. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §732.)...
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27-12-10
Section 27-12-10 Financial inducements to purchase insurance. (a) No person shall issue or deliver, or permit its agents, officers, or employees to issue or deliver, agency company stock or other capital stock, or benefit certificates or shares in any common-law corporation, or securities, or any special or advisory board contract or other contract of any kind promising returns and profits as an inducement to insurance. The commissioner shall refuse to issue a certificate of authority or license to any insurer or other person that is in violation of this section and shall revoke the certificate of authority or license of any such violating insurer or person if such authority or license is already outstanding. (b) No person shall issue or deliver, or permit its agents, officers, or employees to issue or deliver, in this state, any life insurance policy or contract of annuity in which are used such words as "investment plan," "expansion plan," "profit-sharing," "charter plan," "founders'...
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27-2-21
Section 27-2-21 Examinations - Affairs, etc., of insurers and surplus line brokers. (a) For the purpose of determining its financial condition, ability to fulfill its obligations and compliance with the law, the commissioner shall examine the affairs, transactions, accounts, records, and assets of each authorized insurer, and the records of surplus line brokers restricted to those matters under Section 27-10-29, including the attorney-in-fact of a reciprocal insurer insofar as insurer transactions are involved as often as the commissioner deems appropriate but shall, at a minimum, conduct an examination of every insurer licensed in this state not less frequently than once every five years. In scheduling and determining the nature, scope, and frequency of the examinations, the commissioner shall consider such matters as the results of financial statement analyses and ratios, changes in management or ownership, actuarial opinions, reports of independent certified public accountants, and...
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