27-30-17
Section 27-30-17 Contracts - Annual valuation - Benefits, aid, or services other than cash. (a) The commissioner shall each year cause all outstanding contracts or policies of every mutual aid association to be carefully valued as of December 31 of the preceding year at 40 percent of the retail value of the benefits, aid, or services provided under the terms of its contracts or policies or at the average wholesale cost of the funeral supplies, benefits, aid, and services so provided for, whichever amount is the greater, as shown by the number of contracts or policies in force according to the books and records of the association, and shall at the time compute the net value of all such outstanding contracts or policies of every such association in the following manner: (1) On all outstanding contracts or policies issued prior to September 16, 1953, the commissioner shall compute the net value thereof by the two following separate methods: a. Method No. 1: On the basis of $1.50 for each...
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27-36A-5
Section 27-36A-5 Computation of minimum standard. (a) Except as provided in Sections 27-36A-6, 27-36A-7 and 27-36A-14, the minimum standard for the valuation of all the policies and contracts issued prior to May 28, 1996, shall be that provided by the laws in effect immediately prior to May 28, 1996. (b) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27-36A-6, 27-36A-7, and 27-36A-14, the minimum standard for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued on or after May 28, 1996, shall be the commissioners reserve valuation method defined in Sections 27-36A-8, 27-36A-9, 27-36A-12, and 27-36A-14, three and one-half percent interest, or, in the case of life insurance policies and contracts, other than annuity and pure endowment contracts, issued on or after August 23, 1976, four percent interest for the policies issued prior to July 30, 1979, and five and one-half percent interest for single premium life insurance policies and four and one-half percent interest for all other policies...
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27-15-52
Section 27-15-52 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORT. The plans, processes, or procedures necessary to confirm the death of the insured, contract owner or annuitant, or retained asset account holder against other available records and information and, as applicable, to locate the beneficiary or beneficiaries or other person entitled to payment pursuant to the terms of the policy or contract which have been developed by each insurer and submitted to and approved by the department. (2) CONTRACT. An annuity contract. The term contract shall not include an annuity used to fund an employment-based retirement plan or program where the insurer is not committed by terms of the annuity contract to pay death benefits to the beneficiaries of specific plan participants. (3) DEATH MASTER FILE. The United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File or any other database or service that is at least as comprehensive as...
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27-27-41
Section 27-27-41 Deficiencies in stock insurer's capital or assets of mutual insurers - Generally. (a) If a stock insurer's capital, as represented by the aggregated par value of its outstanding capital stock, becomes impaired or the assets of a mutual insurer are less than its liabilities and the minimum amount of surplus required to be maintained by it under Sections 27-27-15 or 27-27-20 for authority to transact the kinds of insurance being transacted, the commissioner shall, at once, determine the amount of deficiency and serve notice upon the insurer to make good the deficiency within 60 days after service of such notice. (b) The deficiency may be made good in cash or in assets eligible for the investment of the insurer's funds, or, if a stock insurer, by reduction of the insurer's capital to an amount not below the minimum required for the kinds of insurance thereafter to be transacted or, if a mutual insurer, by amendment of its certificate of authority to cover only such kind...
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27-31B-6
Section 27-31B-6 Minimum capital and surplus. (a) No captive insurance company shall be issued a license unless it shall possess and thereafter maintain unimpaired paid-in capital and surplus as follows: (1) In the case of a pure captive insurance company, not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) or such other amount determined by the commissioner and actuarially supported by a feasibility study. (2) In the case of an association captive insurance company or risk retention group, not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) or such other amount determined by the commissioner and actuarially supported by a feasibility study. (3) In the case of an industrial insured captive insurance company, not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). (4) In the case of a protected cell captive insurance company, not less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) or such other amount determined by the commissioner and actuarially supported by a...
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27-45A-5
Section 27-45A-5 Disclosure of cost share information; discussion and sale of prescription drug alternatives; prohibited payment practices. (a) A pharmacy or pharmacist may provide a covered person with information regarding the amount of the covered person's cost share for a prescription drug. Neither a pharmacy nor a pharmacist shall be proscribed by a pharmacy benefits manager from discussing any such information or for selling a more affordable alternative to the covered person if such an alternative is available. (b) A health benefit plan that covers prescription drugs may not include a provision that requires an enrollee to make a payment for a prescription drug at the point of sale in an amount that exceeds the lessor of: (1) the contracted co-payment amount; or (2) the amount an individual would pay for a prescription if that individual were paying with cash. (c) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) COVERED PERSON. Any individual,...
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27-10-53
Section 27-10-53 Defense of action or proceeding by insurer. (a) Before an unauthorized insurer shall file, or cause to be filed, any pleading in any action or proceeding instituted against it under Sections 27-10-51 and 27-10-52, such insurer shall: (1) Procure a certificate of authority to transact insurance in this state; or (2) Deposit with the clerk of the court in which such action or proceeding is pending cash or securities or file with such clerk a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be entered in such action. The court may, in its discretion, make an order dispensing with such deposit or bond where the insurer makes a showing satisfactory to the court that it maintains in a state of the United States funds or securities, in trust or otherwise, sufficient and available to satisfy any final judgment which may be entered in such action or...
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27-17A-14
Section 27-17A-14 Surety bond. (a) As an alternative to the trust requirement of Section 27-17A-13, the details of which are set forth in Articles 3 and 4, a preneed provider may, with the prior approval of the commissioner, purchase a surety bond in an amount not less than the aggregate value of outstanding liabilities on undelivered preneed contracts for merchandise, services, and cash advances. For the purposes of this section, the term outstanding liabilities means the original retail amount of services and cash advances and the actual cost to the entity to provide the undelivered merchandise sold on each contract written after April 30, 2002. The surety bond shall be in an amount sufficient to cover the outstanding liability at the time each contract is executed. (b) The bond shall be made payable to the State of Alabama for the benefit of the commissioner and of all purchasers of preneed merchandise, services, and cash advances. The bond shall be issued by an insurance company...
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27-3-7
Section 27-3-7 Authority to transact insurance - Kind or combinations of kinds - Minimum paid-in capital stock and surplus. (a) To qualify for authority to transact any one kind of insurance, as defined in Chapter 5 of this title, or combination of kinds of insurance as shown below, an insurer applying for its original certificate of authority in this state after the effective date of this title or continuing such original certificate of authority shall possess and thereafter maintain unimpaired paid-in capital stock, if a stock insurer, or unimpaired surplus, if a foreign mutual or foreign reciprocal insurer, in amount not less than as applicable under the schedule below and shall possess when first so authorized such additional funds as surplus as are required under Section 27-3-8: Kind or kinds of insurance Minimum capital or surplus required Life $800,000.00 Disability 500,000.00 Life and disability 800,000.00 Property 300,000.00 Marine 300,000.00 Casualty 400,000.00 Surety...
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25-4-54
Section 25-4-54 Contribution rates for employers subject to benefit charges; determination of individual benefit charges. (a) Determination of contribution rates. (1) For the 12-month period beginning on January 1 of each year which begins after December 31, 1996, any employer whose experience rating account has been subject to benefit charges throughout at least the fiscal year, as defined in Section 25-4-4, immediately preceding such January 1, shall have his or her rate determined by the Unemployment Compensation Fund's liability for benefits paid to his or her employees, modified by the fund's balance as of the most recent June 30. The employment record of an organization which has been making payments in lieu of contributions but which elects to change to payment of contributions shall be deemed to have been chargeable with benefits throughout the period (not to exceed three fiscal years) with respect to which it was making payments in lieu of contributions and its benefit charges...
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