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27-12A-1
Section 27-12A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance or his or her designee.
(2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Insurance. (3) INSURANCE. As defined in Section
27-1-2, and specifically including any contract, arrangement, or agreement, in which one undertakes
to do any one of the following: a. Pay or indemnify another as to loss from certain contingencies
called risks. b. Pay or grant a specified amount or determinable benefit to another in connection
with ascertainable risk contingencies. c. Pay an annuity to another. d. Act as surety. For
the purposes of this chapter, insurance also includes any health benefit plan as defined in
Section 27-53-1. (4) INSURANCE PRODUCER or PRODUCER. As defined in Section 27-7-1. (5) INSURER.
A person entering into agreements, contracts of insurance, arrangements, or reinsurance, or
a health benefit plan, or a group health plan as...
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27-21A-7
Section 27-21A-7 Evidence of coverage and charges for health care services. (a)(1) Every enrollee
residing in this state is entitled to an evidence of coverage. If the enrollee obtains such
coverage through an insurance policy or a contract issued by a health care service plan, the
insurer or the health care service plan shall issue the evidence of coverage. Otherwise, the
health maintenance organization shall issue the evidence of coverage. (2) No evidence of coverage,
or amendment thereto, shall be issued or delivered to any person in this state until a copy
of the basic form of the evidence of coverage, or amendment thereto, has been filed with the
commissioner and the State Health Officer, and approved by the commissioner. (3) An evidence
of coverage shall contain: a. No provisions or statements which encourage misrepresentation,
or which are untrue, misleading, or deceptive as defined in subsection (a) of Section 27-21A-13;
and b. A clear and concise statement, if a contract, or a...
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27-31A-4
Section 27-31A-4 Risk retention groups not chartered in this state. Risk retention groups chartered
and licensed in states other than this state and seeking to do business as a risk retention
group in this state shall comply with the laws of this state as follows: (1) NOTICE OF OPERATIONS
AND DESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER AS AGENT. a. Before offering insurance in this state, a risk
retention group shall submit to the commissioner both of the following: 1. A statement identifying
the state or states in which the risk retention group is chartered and licensed as a liability
insurance company, charter date, its principal place of business, and other information, including
information on its membership, as the commissioner of this state may require to verify that
the risk retention group is qualified pursuant to subdivision (11) of Section 27-31A-2. 2.
A copy of its plan of operations or feasibility study and revisions of the plan or study submitted
to the state in which the risk retention...
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27-5B-1
Section 27-5B-1 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to protect the interest of insureds,
claimants, ceding insurers, assuming insurers, and the public generally. The Legislature declares
its intent is to ensure adequate regulation of insurers and reinsurers and adequate protection
for those to whom they owe obligations. In furtherance of that state interest, the Legislature
provides a mandate that upon the insolvency of a non-U.S. insurer or reinsurer that provides
security to fund its U.S. obligations in accordance with this chapter, the assets representing
the security shall be maintained in the United States and claims shall be filed with and valued
by the Commissioner of Insurance with regulatory oversight, and the assets shall be distributed,
in accordance with the insurance laws of the state in which the trust is domiciled that are
applicable to the liquidation of domestic U.S. insurance companies. The Legislature declares
that the matters contained in this chapter are...
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37-4-1
Section 37-4-1 Definitions. Unless otherwise specified, when used in this article, these terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission.
(2) COMMISSIONER. A member of the commission. (3) MUNICIPALITY. Any municipal corporation
organized under the laws of this state. (4) PERSON. Such term shall mean and include individuals,
associations of individuals, firms, partnerships, companies, corporations, municipalities,
governmental agencies, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever,
in the singular number as well as in the plural. (5) NONUTILITY. Any federal agency, instrumentality,
or corporation, owned by the United States, and any corporation or joint stock company in
which the United States or any of its departments, establishments, or agencies, owns more
than 50 percent of the voting shares of stock of such corporation or joint stock company.
(6) SECURITIES. Such term shall mean and include stock, stock...
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27-29-6.2
Section 27-29-6.2 Group-wide supervisor for internationally active insurance group. (a)(1)
The commissioner may act as the group-wide supervisor for any internationally active insurance
group in accordance with this section. The commissioner may otherwise acknowledge another
regulatory official as the group-wide supervisor where the internationally active insurance
group meets any of the following: a. Does not have substantial insurance operations in the
United States. b. Has substantial insurance operations in the United States, but not in this
state. c. Has substantial insurance operations in the United States and this state, but the
commissioner has determined pursuant to the factors set forth in subsections (b) and (f) that
the other regulatory official is the appropriate group-wide supervisor. (2) An insurance holding
company system that does not otherwise qualify as an internationally active insurance group
may request that the commissioner make a determination or acknowledgment...
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27-6B-4
Section 27-6B-4 Contract requirements. (a) Unless there is a written contract between the controlling
producer and the insurer approved by the board of directors of the insurer and specifying
the responsibilities of each party, a controlled insurer shall not accept business from a
controlling producer and a controlling producer shall not place business with a controlled
insurer. The contract between a controlling producer and a controlled insurer shall, as a
minimum, contain all of the following: (1) A provision that, upon written notice to the controlling
producer, the controlled insurer may terminate the contract for cause. The controlled insurer
shall suspend the authority of the controlling producer to write business during any pending
dispute regarding the cause for the termination. (2) A provision requiring the controlling
producer to give a detailed accounting to the controlled insurer on any material transaction,
including information necessary to support all commissions,...
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27-12A-2
Section 27-12A-2 Insurance fraud - definition. A person commits the crime of insurance fraud
if, knowingly and with intent to defraud, he or she commits, or conceals any material information
concerning, one or more of the following acts: (1) The solicitation or acceptance of new or
renewal insurance risks on behalf of an insurer, reinsurer, or other person engaged in the
transaction of the business of insurance, by a person who knows the insurer, reinsurer, or
other person responsible for the risk is financially unable to pay its claims at the time
of the transaction. (2) The removal, concealment, alteration, or destruction of the assets
or records relating to the transaction of the business of insurance of an insurer, reinsurer,
or other person engaged in the transaction of the business of insurance. This section does
not prohibit an insurer, reinsurer, or other person engaged in the transaction of the business
of insurance from destroying records or documents relating to the...
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27-3-6.1
Section 27-3-6.1 Authority to transact insurance - Kind or combinations of kinds - Closing
or settlement protection. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (3) of Section
27-3-6, a title insurer may issue closing or settlement protection to a person who is a party
to a transaction in which a title insurance policy will be issued. (b) The form of closing
or settlement protection shall be submitted to and approved by the commissioner. (c) The closing
or settlement protection may indemnify a person only against loss of closing or settlement
funds because of one of the following acts of a settlement agent, such as a title insurance
agent or other settlement service provider which has been approved by the title insurer for
such protection, under the terms and conditions of the closing protection as approved by the
commissioner: (1) Theft or misappropriation of settlement funds in connection with a transaction
in which a title insurance policy or title insurance policies will be...
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27-32-1
Section 27-32-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) IMPAIRMENT or INSOLVENCY.
The capital of a stock insurer, the net assets of a Lloyd's plan insurer or the surplus of
a mutual or reciprocal insurer shall be deemed to be impaired and the insurer shall be deemed
to be insolvent when such insurer is not possessed of assets at least equal to all liabilities
and required reserves, together with its total issued and outstanding capital stock, if a
stock insurer, or the minimum surplus, if a Lloyd's plan, mutual or reciprocal insurer, required
by this title to be maintained for the kind or kinds of insurance it is then authorized to
transact. (2) INSURER. Any person, firm, corporation, association, or aggregation of persons
doing an insurance business and subject to the insurance supervisory authority of, or to liquidation,
rehabilitation, reorganization, or conservation by, the...
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