27-29B-1
Section 27-29B-1 Purpose and scope. (a) The purpose of this chapter is to do all of the following: (1) Provide the Commissioner of Insurance a summary of an insurer or insurance group's corporate governance structure, policies, and practices to permit the commissioner to gain and maintain an understanding of the insurer's corporate governance framework. (2) Outline the requirements for completing a corporate governance annual disclosure with the commissioner. (3) Provide for the confidential treatment of the corporate governance annual disclosure and related information that will contain confidential and sensitive information related to an insurer or insurance group's internal operations and proprietary and trade secret information which, if made public, could potentially cause the insurer or insurance group competitive harm or disadvantage. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prescribe or impose corporate governance standards and internal procedures beyond the procedures...
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27-29B-5
Section 27-29B-5 Contents of Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure. (a) The insurer or insurance group shall have discretion over the responses to the CGAD inquiries, provided the CGAD shall contain the material information necessary to permit the commissioner to gain an understanding of the insurer's or insurance group's corporate governance structure, policies, and practices. The commissioner may request additional information that the commissioner deems material and necessary to provide the commissioner with a clear understanding of the corporate governance policies or the reporting or information system or controls implementing those policies. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the CGAD shall be prepared consistent with rules adopted by the commissioner which shall be substantially similar to the Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Model Regulation developed by the NAIC. Documentation and supporting information shall be maintained and made available upon examination or upon...
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27-31D-1
Section 27-31D-1 Premium discount or insurance rate reduction - Construction and certification. (a) Commencing on May 14, 2009, insurance companies shall provide a premium discount or insurance rate reduction in an amount and manner as established in subsection (j) and pursuant to Section 27-31D-3. In addition, insurance companies may also offer additional adjustments in deductible, other credit rate differentials, or a combination thereof, collectively referred to as adjustments. These adjustments shall be available under the terms specified in this section to any owner who builds or locates a new insurable property, in the State of Alabama, to resist loss due to hurricane or other catastrophic windstorm events. (b) To obtain the adjustment provided in this section, an insurable property located in this state shall be certified as constructed in accordance with either of the following: (1) The 2006 International Residential Code, as amended, including all hurricane mitigation...
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27-6A-5
Section 27-6A-5 Duties of insurer. Insurers shall have the following duties: (1) The insurer shall have on file an independent financial examination, in a form acceptable to the commissioner, of each managing general agent with which it has done business. (2) If a managing general agent establishes loss reserves, the insurer shall annually obtain the opinion of an actuary attesting to the adequacy of loss reserves established for losses incurred and outstanding on business produced by the managing general agent. This is in addition to any other required loss reserve certification. (3) The insurer shall periodically, and at least semi-annually, conduct an onsite review of the underwriting and claims processing operations of the managing general agent. (4) Binding authority for all reinsurance contracts or participation in insurance or reinsurance syndicate shall rest with an officer of the insurer, who shall not be affiliated with the managing general agent. (5) Within 30 days of...
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27-7-23
Section 27-7-23 Temporary license - Generally. (a) The commissioner may, in his or her discretion, issue a temporary producer license without requiring an examination or prelicensing course if the commissioner deems the temporary license is necessary for the servicing of an insurance business in any of the following cases: (1) To the surviving spouse or court-appointed personal representative of a licensed producer who dies or becomes mentally or physically disabled to allow adequate time for the sale of the insurance business owned by the producer or for the recovery or return of the producer to the business or to provide for the training and licensing of new personnel to operate the producer's business. (2) To a member or employee of a business entity which is licensed as a producer, upon the death or disability of the individual designated in the business entity application or the license. (3) To the designee of a licensed producer entering active service in the Armed Forces of the...
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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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27-27-60
Section 27-27-60 Insider trading of domestic stock insurer equity securities - Rules and regulations. The commissioner shall have the power to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the execution of the functions vested in him by Sections 27-27-53 through 27-27-59 and may for such purpose classify domestic stock insurance companies, securities, and other persons or matters within his jurisdiction. No provision of Sections 27-27-53 through 27-27-55 imposing any liability shall apply to any act done or omitted in good faith in conformity with any rule or regulation of the commissioner, notwithstanding that such rule or regulation may, after such act or omission, be amended or rescinded or determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, ยง556.)...
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27-3-11
Section 27-3-11 Deposit requirements - Generally. (a) The commissioner shall not issue or permit to exist a certificate of authority as to any insurer, other than an alien insurer, unless it has deposited and maintains deposited in trust with the Treasurer of this state cash or securities eligible under Section 27-6-3 and having a value at all times of not less than $100,000.00 or the minimum paid-in capital stock, if a stock insurer, or surplus, if a mutual or reciprocal insurer, required to be maintained by the insurer under this title for authority to transact the kinds of insurance to be transacted, whichever is the smaller amount. (b) The deposit shall be for the general benefit and protection of the insurer's policyholders or its policyholders and creditors. (c) In lieu of such deposit, or part thereof, in this state of a foreign insurer, the commissioner shall, subject to the retaliatory law, Section 27-3-29, accept the current certificate in proper form of the public official...
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27-4A-2
Section 27-4A-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter only, the following terms, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings: (1) ANNUITY CONSIDERATIONS. All sums received as consideration for annuity contracts. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Alabama. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Insurance of the State of Alabama. (4) DOMESTIC INSURER. Any insurer organized under the laws of the State of Alabama which maintains its principal office and chief place of business in the State of Alabama. (5) FOREIGN INSURER. Any insurer organized under the laws of any country or of any state of the United States other than the State of Alabama and any insurer organized under the laws of Alabama which maintains its principal office or chief place of business outside the State of Alabama. (6) INSURER. Every insurer as defined in Section 27-1-2, and every other insurance company or association charging a premium for contracts entered...
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27-21-2
Section 27-21-2 Offering of insurance. Any insurer authorized and licensed to engage in the business of health insurance in this state may join with one or more other such insurers to offer to any resident of this state, who meets the qualifications established by the commissioner, insurance against major financial loss from accident or disease. Such insurance may be offered by such insurers in their own names or in the name of a voluntary unincorporated association or other organization formed by such insurers solely for the purpose of this plan. The forms of applications, certifications, and policies of such insurance, the applicable premium rates, annual statement, and all other information required by the department under Alabama law for organizations in the business of health insurance shall be filed with the commissioner for his approval. Any other information which the commissioner deems necessary for the efficient operation of the plan may also be required. (Acts 1971, No. 501,...
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