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27-55-3
Section 27-55-3 Prohibited practices; disclosure of information. (a) No insurer may:
(1) Deny, refuse to issue, renew, or reissue, cancel, or otherwise terminate, restrict, or
exclude coverage on an insurance policy or health benefit plan on the basis of an applicant's
or insured's abuse status, or on the basis of any association, relationship, or assistance
to a subject of abuse. (2) Exclude or limit coverage for a loss, deny benefits, or deny a
claim on the basis of the insured's abuse status, or on the basis of any association, relationship,
or assistance to a subject of abuse, except as otherwise permitted or required by the laws
of this state relating to acts of abuse committed by a life insurance beneficiary. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this section, a liability insurer may include policy provisions
providing that a payment required by this subsection may be denied or, if paid, recovered
by the insurer from the insured, if the claim arose out of an act of abuse by...
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27-1-17
Section 27-1-17 Limitation periods for payment of claims; overdue claims; retroactive
denials, adjustments, etc.; penalties. (a) Each insurer, health service corporation, and health
benefit plan that issues or renews any policy of accident or health insurance providing benefits
for medical or hospital expenses for its insured persons shall pay for services rendered by
Alabama health care providers within 45 calendar days upon receipt of a clean written claim
or 30 calendar days upon receipt of a clean electronic claim. If the insurer, health service
corporation, or health benefit plan is denying or pending the claim, the insurer, health service
corporation, or health benefit plan shall, within 45 calendar days for a written claim and
30 calendar days for an electronic claim, notify the health care provider or certificate holder
of the reason for denying or pending the claim and what, if any, additional information is
required to process the claim. Any undisputed portion of the claim...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama
hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product
Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of
joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest
of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term
care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under
the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review
of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related
thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states;
4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying
the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus
Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with
all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple
states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted
and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject
to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any
law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted
Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another
State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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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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27-12A-20
Section 27-12A-20 Fraud warning. (a) A fraud warning shall be included on at least one
of the following: Claim release forms, applications, reinstatements for insurance, participation
agreements, declaration pages, and claim documents, regardless of the method or form of transmission
and shall contain the following statement or a substantially similar statement: "Any
person who knowingly presents a false or fraudulent claim for payment of a loss or benefit
or who knowingly presents false information in an application for insurance is guilty of a
crime and may be subject to restitution, fines, or confinement in prison, or any combination
thereof." (b) The lack of a statement required by subsection (a) shall not constitute
a defense in any prosecution for insurance fraud. (c) Policies issued by unauthorized insurers
shall contain a statement disclosing the status of the insurer to do business in the state
where the policy is delivered or issued for delivery or the state where coverage is...
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27-15-53
Section 27-15-53 Requirements for death master file comparisons. (a) An insurer shall
perform a comparison of its insureds' in-force life insurance policies, annuity contracts,
and retained asset accounts against a death master file, to identify potential death master
file matches of its insureds. Such comparison shall be completed by January 1, 2019. Thereafter,
an insurer shall maintain a program designed to compare each such policy, contract, or account
with a death master file no less frequently than every three years, it being the intent that
insurers fashion a program that best fits their business systems while at the same time protecting
consumers by assuring reasonable checks are being performed to identify unreported deaths.
For those potential death master file matches identified as a result of a death master file
comparison, the insurer shall do all of the following: (1) Within 90 days of a death master
file match: a. Complete a commercially reasonable effort, which shall be...
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27-19-105
Section 27-19-105 Regulations for long-term care policies; outline of coverage, policy
summary, and monthly report. (a) The commissioner may adopt regulations that include standards
for full and fair disclosure setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for
the sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent
conditions of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents,
preexisting conditions, termination of insurance, continuation or conversion, probationary
periods, limitations, exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement,
recurrent conditions, and definitions of terms. Regulations under this subsection should recognize
the developing and unique nature of long-term care insurance and the distinction between group
and individual long-term insurance policies. (b) No long-term care insurance policy may do
any of the following: (1) Be cancelled, nonrenewed, or otherwise...
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27-44-8
Section 27-44-8 Powers and duties of association. (a) If a member insurer is an impaired
insurer, the association may, in its discretion and subject to any conditions imposed by the
association that do not impair the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer, and that
are approved by the commissioner: (1) Guarantee or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed,
or reinsured, any or all of the covered policies of the impaired insurers. (2) Provide such
moneys, pledges, notes, guarantees, or other means as are proper to effectuate subdivision
(1), and assure payment of the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer pending action
under subdivision (1). (b) If a member insurer is an insolvent insurer, the association shall,
in its discretion and subject to the approval of the commissioner, do either of the following:
(1)a. Guarantee, assume, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, or reinsured, the
covered policies of the insolvent insurer. b. Assure payment of the...
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45-37-123.01
Section 45-37-123.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) ACT. The act adding this part, to be called the General
Retirement System for Employees of Jefferson County Act. (2) ACTIVE MEMBER. An individual
who currently is employed by the county or other entities set forth in subdivision (20) and
is making employee contributions to the system. (3) ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENT. Effective July 30,
1984, or such other dates as set forth in Exhibit A, which is maintained in the office of
the pension board, a form of benefit differing in time, period, or manner of payment from
a specific benefit provided under the plan but having the same value when computed using the
mortality tables, the interest rate, and any other assumptions last adopted by the pension
board, which assumptions shall clearly preclude any discretion in the determination of the
amount of a member's benefit. (4) ACTUARIAL GAIN. As defined in Section...
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