27-1-25
Section 27-1-25 Rate filings and related actuarial information for homeowners insurance coverage to be public information. (a) Except as limited in subsection (c), all rate filings and related actuarial information for homeowners insurance coverage in Alabama filed after September 1, 2011, shall be treated as public information. (b) All rate filings and related actuarial information for homeowners insurance coverage shall be available to the public for review at the office of the Commissioner of Insurance in Montgomery, Alabama, and shall be available via the Internet through the website of the Department of Insurance. (c) Any proprietary actuarial risk analysis or forecasting information or information otherwise restricted by statute or regulation included in a rate filing or related actuarial information is considered to be a commercially valuable trade secret under Chapter 27 of Title 8, and shall be confidential. The department, absent a court order, shall not release this...
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10A-20-6.16
Section 10A-20-6.16 Applicability of insurance laws. (a) No statute of this state applying to insurance companies shall be applicable to any corporation organized under this article and amendments thereto or to any contract made by the corporation; except the corporation shall be subject to the following: (1) The provisions regarding annual premium tax to be paid by insurers on insurance premiums. (2) Chapter 55 of Title 27. (3) Article 2 and Article 3 of Chapter 19 of Title 27. (4) Section 27-1-17. (5) Chapter 56 of Title 27. (6) Rules promulgated by the Commissioner of Insurance pursuant to Sections 27-7-43 and 27-7-44. (7) Chapter 54 of Title 27. (8) Chapter 57 of Title 27. (9) Chapter 58 of Title 27. (10) Chapter 59 of Title 27. (11) Chapter 54A of Title 27. (12) Chapter 12A of Title 27. (13) Chapter 2B of Title 27. (14) Chapter 29 of Title 27. (15) Chapter 62 of Title 27. (b) The provisions in subsection (a) that require specific types of coverage to be offered or provided shall...
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27-25-4.3
Section 27-25-4.3 Prelicensing course and examination. (a)(1) Every individual subject to the examination required in subsection (b) shall first complete a prelicensing course consisting of 20 classroom hours or equivalent individual instruction on the general principles of title insurance, the duties and responsibilities of a title insurance agent, and the title insurance laws and regulations of this state. The course shall be taught only by those educational institutions, title insurers, or title insurance trade organizations which hold written authority from the commissioner. (2) The prelicensing course must have been completed within 12 months before the date of the examination as shown on the certificate furnished by the prelicensing course provider. (3) Every prelicensing course provider shall apply annually for the continued authority to issue certificates of completion under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the commissioner. (4) At the time of initial approval and...
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27-27-51
Section 27-27-51 Rules and regulations as to securities of domestic stock insurers. The commissioner shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to prescribe, publish, and disseminate to all domestic stock insurance companies uniform written rules and regulations of proxies, consents, and authorizations, including the solicitation thereof, and information necessary, or appropriate to, such solicitation or to the authorization sought thereby, in respect of securities issued by such domestic stock insurance companies; and it shall be unlawful for any person to solicit or to permit the use of his name to solicit any proxy, consent or authorization in respect of any such securities in contravention of such rules and regulations as may be prescribed, published, and disseminated pursuant to this section. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, ยง547.)...
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27-3-14
Section 27-3-14 Deposit requirements - Alien insurers - Generally. (a) An alien insurer shall not have authority to transact insurance in this state unless it has and maintains within the United States as deposits with trustees, public depositaries or in trust institutions approved by the commissioner under Section 27-3-15 assets available for discharge of its United States insurance obligations, which assets shall be in amount not less than the outstanding liabilities of the insurer arising out of its insurance transactions in the United States together with the greater of the following sums: (1) The largest deposit required by Section 27-3-11 to be made by foreign insurers transacting like kinds of insurance; or (2) $300,000.00. (b) Of the amount deposited by an alien insurer, an amount not less than that required under subdivisions (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section shall be deposited and maintained on deposit in cash or securities eligible for deposit under Section 27-6-3 with the...
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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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27-31A-2
Section 27-31A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Insurance Commissioner of this state or the commissioner, director, or superintendent of insurance in any other state. (2) COMPLETED OPERATIONS LIABILITY. Liability arising out of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site which is not owned or controlled by either of the following: a. Any person who performs that work. b. Any person who hires an independent contractor to perform that work, but shall include liability for activities which are completed or abandoned before the date of the occurrence giving rise to the liability. (3) DOMICILE. For purposes of determining the state in which a purchasing group is domiciled: a. For a corporation, the state in which the purchasing group is incorporated. b. For an unincorporated entity, the state of its principal place of...
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27-31D-2
Section 27-31D-2 Premium discount or insurance rate reduction - Fortified existing homes. (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 (g) 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 retrofits his or her insurable property located 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 shall be retrofitted to any of the following: (1) The Fortified Home: Hurricane Standards (FHH), or the Fortified Home: Highwind and Hail Standards (FHWH) requirements as may from time to time be adopted...
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27-42-13
Section 27-42-13 Prevention of insolvencies; examinations of insurers; reports. (a) To aid in the detection and prevention of insurer insolvencies, it shall be the duty of the board of directors, upon majority vote, to notify the commissioner of any information indicating any member insurer may be insolvent or in a financial condition hazardous to the policyholders or the public. (b) The board of directors may, upon majority vote, request that the commissioner order an examination of any member insurer which the board in good faith believes may be in a financial condition hazardous to the policyholders or the public. Within 30 days of the receipt of such request, the commissioner shall begin such examination. The examination may be conducted as a National Association of Insurance Commissioners' examination or may be conducted by such persons as the commissioner designates. The cost of such examination shall be paid by the association and the examination report shall be treated as are...
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27-14-10
Section 27-14-10 Standard or uniform provisions; waiver or substitution thereof. (a) Insurance contracts shall contain such standard or uniform provisions as are required by the applicable provisions of this title pertaining to contracts of particular kinds of insurance; however, the commissioner may waive the required use of a particular provision in a particular insurance policy form if: (1) He finds such provision unnecessary for the protection of the insured or inconsistent with the purposes of the policy; and (2) The policy is otherwise approved by him. (b) No policy shall contain any provision inconsistent with, or contradictory to, any standard or uniform provision used or required to be used, but the commissioner may approve any substitute provision which is, in his opinion, not less favorable in any particular to the insured or beneficiary than the provisions otherwise required. (c) In lieu of the provisions required by this title for contracts for particular kinds of...
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