27-34-40
Section 27-34-40 Examinations - Foreign and alien societies. The commissioner, or any person whom he may appoint, may examine any foreign or alien society transacting, or applying for admission to transact, business in this state. He may employ assistants and he, or any person he may appoint, shall have free access to all books, papers, and documents that relate to the business of the society. He may, in his discretion, accept, in lieu of such examination, the examination of the insurance department of the state, territory, district, province, or country where such society is organized. The compensation and actual expenses of the examiners making any examination or general or special valuation shall be paid by the society examined or by the society whose certificate obligations have been valued, upon statements furnished by the commissioner. (Acts 1911, No. 476, p. 700; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §712.)...
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5-13B-88
Section 5-13B-88 Authority to act as agent. (a) An Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency of a foreign bank licensed under this article may receive deposits, renew time deposits, close loans, service loans, and receive payments on loans and other obligations as an agent for any depository institution affiliate of such foreign bank, including branch, agency, and other offices of the same foreign bank located in other states, generally in accordance with the same terms, conditions, procedures, and requirements that are applicable under the laws and regulations of this state to such agency activities that may be conducted by Alabama state banks. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the laws or regulations of this state, an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency of a foreign bank acting in this state as an agent in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be considered to be a branch of such other depository institution affiliate; provided, however, that...
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11-51-122
Section 11-51-122 Insurance companies - Provision of statement of gross premiums, etc., and payment of license tax; effect of failure to file statement or pay tax. On or before March 1 of each year, each insurance company which did any business in any municipality in this state during any part of the preceding year shall, if a license or privilege tax is imposed by said municipality on such insurance company, furnish the mayor or a revenue official, of such municipality a statement in writing duly certified showing the full and true amount of gross premiums received during the preceding year as provided under this article and shall accompany such statement with the amount of license tax due according to Sections 11-51-120 and 11-51-121. Failure to furnish such statement or to pay such sum shall subject the company and its agents to such penalties as the ordinance of such municipality may prescribe for doing business therein without a license. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T....
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27-3-30
Section 27-3-30 Foreign insurer may become domestic insurer; method; certificate and license eligibility; authority and jurisdiction of state; continuation of corporate existence and date of incorporation. Any insurer which is organized under the laws of any other state and is admitted to do business in this state for the purpose of writing insurance may become a domestic insurer by complying with all of the requirements of law relative to the organization and licensing of a domestic insurer of the same type and by designating its principal place of business at a place in this state. Said domestic insurer will be entitled to like certificates and licenses to transact business in this state and shall be subject to the authority and jurisdiction of this state. Articles of incorporation of such domestic insurer may be amended to provide that the corporation is a continuation of the corporate existence of the original foreign corporation through adoption of this state as its corporate...
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27-3-5
Section 27-3-5 Authority to transact insurance - Use of name by insurer. (a) No insurer shall be authorized to transact insurance which has or uses a name so similar to that of another insurer already so authorized as likely to mislead the public. (b) No life insurer shall be so authorized which has or uses a name deceptively similar to that of another insurer authorized to transact insurance in this state within the preceding 10 years if life insurance policies originally issued by such other insurer are still outstanding in this state. (c) No insurer shall be so authorized which has or uses a name which tends to deceive or mislead as to the type of organization of the insurer. (d) In case of conflict of names hereafter between two insurers, or a conflict otherwise prohibited under the foregoing subsections of this section, the commissioner may permit or require, as a condition to the issuance of an original certificate of authority to an applicant insurer, that such insurer shall use...
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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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27-40-1
Section 27-40-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) INSURANCE PREMIUM FINANCE COMPANY. A person engaged in the business of entering into premium finance agreements. (2) PREMIUM FINANCE AGREEMENT. An agreement by which an insured or prospective insured promises to pay to a premium finance company the amount advanced or to be advanced under the agreement to an insurer or to an insurance agent or broker in payment of premiums on an insurance contract together with a service charge, as authorized and limited by this chapter, and charges for wind mitigation construction financing, as approved by the commissioner. (3) LICENSEE. A premium finance company holding a license issued under this chapter. (4) PERSON. An individual, partnership, association, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, common law trust, joint-stock company, or any other group of individuals however organized. (5) INSURANCE CONTRACT. The...
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27-52-21
Section 27-52-21 Commissioner of Insurance; benefits offered to small employers; "small employer" defined. (a) The Commissioner of Insurance shall, by regulation, establish the conditions, restrictions, requirements, and plan of operation of the Alabama Small Employer Allocation Program consistent with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and any and all federal regulations adopted pursuant thereto, which plan benefits shall be inclusive of the provisions of Sections 27-1-10 and 27-19-39. The program shall be patterned after the Small Employer Health Insurance Availability models developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (b) All insurers that offer health benefit plans to small employers in this state on and after August 1, 1997, shall be required to meet the requirements of the program as a condition of authority to transact business in this state. (c) For the purposes of this article, a "small employer" means any...
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27-7-4
Section 27-7-4 Licenses - Requirement; forms. (a) No person shall in this state sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance for any class or classes of insurance unless the person is then licensed for that line of authority in accordance with this chapter. Any insurer accepting business directly from a person not licensed for that line of authority and not appointed by the insurer shall be liable to a fine up to three times the premium received from the person. (b) No producer shall act on behalf of any insurer for which an appointment is not held under this chapter. A producer who is not acting on behalf of an insurer is not required to become appointed. For purposes of this section, a producer who refers business to an appointed producer pursuant to Section 27-7-34 shall not be deemed to be acting on behalf of the insurer with whom the business is placed, regardless of whether commissions on this business are shared. (c) The commissioner shall prescribe and furnish on request all forms...
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36-1-6
Section 36-1-6 Insurance of state employees operating motor vehicles in performance of their duties. (a) Any director or head of a state department, agency, bureau, or division shall allow any state employee under his or her supervision, who operates a motor vehicle in the performance of his or her duties, whether such employee is in travel status or otherwise, and whether the vehicle is state owned or leased or otherwise, to acquire insurance, in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section, insuring such employee against personal liability arising out of and a proximate consequence of the operation of a motor vehicle by such employee in the performance of his or her duties. Such coverage shall be issued by an insurance company licensed and qualified to do business in this state. (b) The insurance provided under the provisions of this section shall be acquired by the employee by virtue of an additional condition or rider to a policy of insurance under which the state employee...
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