27-40-3
Section 27-40-3 Licenses - Required; fees; information to be furnished commissioner. (a) No person shall engage in the business of financing insurance premiums in this state without first having obtained a license as a premium finance company from the commissioner. Any person who shall engage in the business of financing insurance premiums in this state without first having obtained a license as provided herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. (b) The annual license fee shall be $200.00; provided, that an insurance agency which finances its own business of less than $150,000.00 in premiums annually shall pay a fee of $50.00. The fee for said license shall be paid into the Insurance Department Examination Revolving Fund and the same is hereby appropriated for that use. (c) The person to whom the license or the renewal thereof may be issued shall file sworn...
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27-7-4.4
Section 27-7-4.4 Fingerprints. (a) In order to make a determination of insurance producer license eligibility, the commissioner is authorized to require fingerprints of initial resident applicants for an insurance producer license and to submit the fingerprints and the fee required to perform the criminal history record checks to the Alabama Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for state and national criminal history record checks. (b) The commissioner shall require a criminal history record check on each initial resident applicant for insurance producer license in accordance with this section. The commissioner shall require each applicant to submit a full set of fingerprints, including a scanned file from a hard copy fingerprint, in order for the commissioner to obtain and receive national criminal history records from the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division. (c) The commissioner may contract for the collection, transmission, and...
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32-7-35
Section 32-7-35 Assigned risk plans. After consultation with insurance companies authorized to issue automobile liability policies in this state, the Commissioner of Insurance shall approve a reasonable plan or plans for the equitable apportionment among such companies of applicants for such policies and for motor vehicle liability policies who are in good faith entitled to but are unable to procure such policies through ordinary methods. When any such plan has been approved, all such insurance companies shall subscribe thereto and participate therein. Any applicant for any such policy, any person insured under any such plan and any insurance company affected may appeal to the Commissioner of Insurance from any ruling or decision of the manager or committee designated to operate such plan. Any person aggrieved hereunder by any order or act of the Commissioner of Insurance may, within 10 days after notice thereof, file a petition in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama for a...
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27-25-4.6
Section 27-25-4.6 Fingerprints. (a) In order to make a determination of title insurance agent license eligibility, the commissioner may require fingerprints of initial applicants for a title insurance agent license, and the fingerprints and the fee required to perform the criminal history record checks shall be submitted to the Alabama Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for state and national criminal history record checks. (b) The commissioner shall require a criminal history record check on each initial applicant for title insurance agent license pursuant to this section. The commissioner shall require each applicant to submit a full set of fingerprints, including a scanned file from a hard copy fingerprint, to allow the commissioner to obtain and receive national criminal history records from the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division. (c) The commissioner may contract for the collection, transmission, and resubmission of...
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36-1-6.1
Section 36-1-6.1 Professional liability coverage for state employees or agents; duties of Finance Director; self-insurance; costs of insurance. (a) The various state agencies, departments, boards, or commissions shall determine and report their needs for liability coverage to the Finance Director, the Insurance Commissioner, and the Attorney General. The Finance Director, with the advice of the Insurance Commissioner and Attorney General, shall then determine the type of blanket policy needed to provide basic coverage for deaths, injuries, or damages arising out of the negligent or wrongful acts or omissions committed by state employees or agents of the state, including retired licensed physicians and dentists while they are voluntarily serving at free health care clinics and individuals serving as foster parents licensed or approved by the Department of Human Resources to maintain homes for a child or children under the supervision of the department or serving as adult foster care...
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27-29B-1
Section 27-29B-1 Purpose and scope. (a) The purpose of this chapter is to do all of the following: (1) Provide the Commissioner of Insurance a summary of an insurer or insurance group's corporate governance structure, policies, and practices to permit the commissioner to gain and maintain an understanding of the insurer's corporate governance framework. (2) Outline the requirements for completing a corporate governance annual disclosure with the commissioner. (3) Provide for the confidential treatment of the corporate governance annual disclosure and related information that will contain confidential and sensitive information related to an insurer or insurance group's internal operations and proprietary and trade secret information which, if made public, could potentially cause the insurer or insurance group competitive harm or disadvantage. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prescribe or impose corporate governance standards and internal procedures beyond the procedures...
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27-6B-2
Section 27-6B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ACCREDITED STATE. A state in which the Department of Insurance meets the minimum financial qualifications and regulatory standards promulgated and established, from time to time, by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Insurance. (3) CONTROL or CONTROLLED. The same as defined in Section 27-29-1. (4) CONTROLLED INSURER. A licensed insurer who is controlled, directly or indirectly, by a producer. (5) CONTROLLING PRODUCER. A producer who, directly or indirectly, controls an insurer. (6) LICENSED INSURER or INSURER. Any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed to transact a property and casualty insurance business in this state. For the purposes of this chapter, the following are not licensed insurers: a. A residual market pool and a joint...
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22-21-361
Section 22-21-361 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed by this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER. The commissioner of insurance of this state. (2) DENTAL SERVICE PLAN or PLAN. Any plan or other arrangement whereby dental services are provided in whole or in part through a dental service corporation by dentists participating in the plan to provide dental services to those members of the public who become subscribers to the plan under a contract with such corporation. The terms "dental service plan" or "plan" do not include an insurer authorized by the insurance department to transact insurance in this state or to a nonprofit health insurance plan organized pursuant to Section 10-4-100, or to any policy of insurance or contract which includes dental benefits issued by such insurer or nonprofit health insurance plan. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Insurance. (4) LICENSE. The certificate of authority issued...
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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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27-9A-2
Section 27-9A-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) APPRENTICE INDEPENDENT ADJUSTER. As defined in Section 27-9A-11. (2) BUSINESS ENTITY. A corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance. (4) HOME STATE. The District of Columbia and any state or territory of the United States in which an independent adjuster maintains the principal place of residence or business of the adjuster and in which the adjuster is licensed to act as a resident independent adjuster. In the case of a resident of a Canadian province, or if the resident state or territory does not license independent adjusters for the line of authority sought, the home state of the independent adjuster shall be any state in which the independent adjuster is licensed and in good standing, as designated by...
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