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27-25-6
Section 27-25-6 Companies to file rates. (a) Every title insurer shall file with the commissioner
its schedule of premium rates and every modification of any premium rate that it proposes
to use in this state. The premium rates shall not be subject to rebate and the rebate of premiums
to the insured are expressly prohibited. If a reissue premium rate is filed by an insurer,
an insured may receive reissue credit only when the insured physically produces the prior
title insurance policy, including schedules associated therewith, issued by a title insurer
licensed to be engaged in the business of title insurance in this state. A title insurer that
has not filed its premium rates pursuant to the provisions hereof shall not engage in the
business of title insurance until such time as its premium rates are filed. No person, title
insurer, agency, or agent shall charge any premium rate for any policy or contract of title
insurance except in accordance with the filed premium rates which are in...
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27-10-33
Section 27-10-33 Service of process in action or proceeding against insurer. (a) Any unauthorized
insurer issuing a policy or assuming a direct insurance risk under this surplus line law shall
be deemed thereby to have appointed the commissioner as its attorney upon whom may be served
all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it in this state arising out of such
insurance. (b) Service of process upon the commissioner as process agent of the insurer shall
be made by the proper officer of Montgomery County by serving copies in triplicate of the
process upon the commissioner or upon his assistant, deputy, or other person in charge of
his office. Upon receiving such service, the commissioner shall promptly forward a copy thereof
by certified mail or registered mail to the person last designated to receive the same, as
provided in subsection (c) of this section, return one copy with his admission of service,
and retain one copy in the files of the department. (c) Each such...
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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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27-10-35
Section 27-10-35 Report of, and tax on, independently procured coverages; exceptions. (a) Anyone
who may desire to place his insurance in a foreign insurer not authorized to do business in
this state may place such insurance, and any insured who in this state procures, or causes
to be procured, or continues or renews insurance in an unauthorized foreign insurer or any
self-insurer who in this state so procures or continues excess loss, catastrophe, or other
insurance, upon a subject of insurance resident, located or to be performed within this state,
other than insurance procured through a surplus line broker pursuant to the surplus lines
law of this state or exempted from such law under Section 27-10-34 shall, within 90 days after
the date such insurance was so procured, continued, or renewed, file a written report of the
same with the commissioner on forms designated by the commissioner and furnished to such an
insured upon request. The report shall show the name and address of the...
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27-31A-9
Section 27-31A-9 Restrictions on insurance purchased by purchasing groups. (a) A purchasing
group may not purchase insurance from a risk retention group that is not chartered in a state
or from an insurer not admitted in the state in which the purchasing group is located, unless
the purchase is effected through a licensed agent or broker acting pursuant to the surplus
lines laws and regulations of the state. (b) A purchasing group which obtains casualty insurance
from an insurer not admitted in this state, or a risk retention group, shall inform each of
the members of the group which have a risk resident or located in this state that the risk
is not protected by an insurance insolvency guaranty fund in this state, and that the risk
retention group or that insurer may not be subject to all insurance laws and regulations of
this state. (c) No purchasing group may purchase insurance providing for a deductible or self-insured
retention applicable to the group as a whole. Coverage may...
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8-19A-4
Section 8-19A-4 Exemptions. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to: (1) A person engaging
in commercial telephone solicitation where the solicitation is an isolated transaction and
not done in the course of a pattern of repeated transactions of like nature. (2) A person
making calls for religious, charitable, political, educational, or other noncommercial purposes
or a person soliciting for a nonprofit corporation if that corporation is properly registered
with the Secretary of State and is included within the exemption of the Alabama Revenue Code
or Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or rural electric cooperatives formed under
Chapter 6 of Title 37 of the Code of Alabama or affiliates or subsidiaries thereof. (3) A
person soliciting: a. Without the intent to complete or obtain provisional acceptance of a
sale during the telephone solicitation. b. Who does not make the major sales presentation
during the telephone solicitation. c. Without the intent to complete, and...
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27-23-21
Section 27-23-21 Reasons for cancellation. (a) No notice of cancellation of a policy of automobile
liability insurance shall be effective unless it is based on one or more of the following
reasons: (1) Nonpayment of premium; (2) The policy was obtained through a material misrepresentation;
(3) Any insured violated any of the terms and conditions of the policy; (4) The named insured
failed to disclose fully his motor vehicle accidents and moving traffic violations for the
preceding 36 months if called for in the application; (5) The named insured failed to disclose
in his written application or in response to inquiry by his broker, or by the insurer or its
agent information necessary for the acceptance or proper rating of the risk; (6) Any insured
made a false or fraudulent claim or knowingly aided or abetted another in the presentation
of such a claim; (7) Failure to maintain membership in any group or organization when such
membership is a prerequisite to the purchase of such...
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27-31A-10
Section 27-31A-10 Purchasing group taxation. Premium taxes and taxes on premiums paid for coverage
of risks resident, or located in this state by a purchasing group, or any members of the purchasing
groups shall be both: (1) Imposed at the same rate and subject to the same interest, fines,
and penalties as that applicable to premium taxes and taxes on premiums paid for similar coverage
from a similar insurance source by other insureds. (2) Paid first by the insurance source,
and if not by that source, by the agent or broker for the purchasing group, and if not by
the agent or broker then by the purchasing group, and if not by the purchasing group then
by each of its members. (Acts 1993, No. 93-674, p. 1226, ยง10.)...
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27-4A-3
Section 27-4A-3 Generally. (a) Subject to the exceptions and exemptions hereinafter set forth,
for the year beginning on January 1, 1995, and for each year thereafter, every insurer shall
pay to the commissioner a premium tax equal to the percentage, as set out in this subsection,
of the premiums received by the insurer for business done in this state, whether the same
was actually received by the insurer in this state or elsewhere: (1) PREMIUM TAX ON LIFE INSURANCE
PREMIUMS. a. Except as hereinafter provided, the rates of taxation on life insurance premiums
shall be those amounts set out in the following schedule: Year Foreign Insurers Domestic Insurers
1995 2.9 1.3 1996 2.8 1.6 1997 2.7 1.8 1998 2.5 2.1 Every Year Thereafter 2.3 2.3 b. Individual
life insurance policies in a face amount of greater than $5,000 and up to and including $25,000,
excluding group life insurance policies, shall be taxed at the rate of one percent per annum.
c. Individual life insurance policies in a face...
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7-2-104
Section 7-2-104 Definitions: "Merchant"; "between merchants"; "financing
agency." (1) "Merchant" means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise
by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices
or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed
by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds
himself out as having such knowledge or skill. (2) "Financing agency" means a bank,
finance company or other person who in the ordinary course of business makes advances against
goods or documents of title or who by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes
in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for sale,
as by purchasing or paying the seller's draft or making advances against it or by merely taking
it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft.
"Financing...
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