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27-10-53
Section 27-10-53 Defense of action or proceeding by insurer. (a) Before an unauthorized insurer
shall file, or cause to be filed, any pleading in any action or proceeding instituted against
it under Sections 27-10-51 and 27-10-52, such insurer shall: (1) Procure a certificate of
authority to transact insurance in this state; or (2) Deposit with the clerk of the court
in which such action or proceeding is pending cash or securities or file with such clerk a
bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed
by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be entered in
such action. The court may, in its discretion, make an order dispensing with such deposit
or bond where the insurer makes a showing satisfactory to the court that it maintains in a
state of the United States funds or securities, in trust or otherwise, sufficient and available
to satisfy any final judgment which may be entered in such action or...
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27-2-5
Section 27-2-5 Commissioner of Insurance - Official seal. (a) The commissioner shall have an
official seal as heretofore provided him by the State of Alabama. (b) All certificates executed
by the commissioner, other than licenses of agents, brokers, solicitors, adjusters, and similar
licenses, shall bear his seal. (c) Every such certificate so executed and sealed under the
authority conferred upon the commissioner by law may be recorded in the proper recording office
in this state in the same manner and with the same effect as a deed regularly acknowledged
or proven. (d) Every certificate and other document or paper executed by the commissioner
pursuant to any authority conferred upon him by law and sealed with the seal of his office
and all copies or photographic copies of papers certified by him and authenticated by such
seal shall, in all cases, be evidenced equally and in like manner as the original thereof
and shall have the same force and effect as the original would in any...
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27-27-14
Section 27-27-14 Solicitation permit for subsequent financing. (a) No insurer, or insurance
holding corporation, or stock corporation for financing operations of a mutual insurer, or
attorney-in-fact corporation, or a reciprocal insurer, or any other type of organization existing
for the same purpose, after: (1) It has received a certificate of authority, if an insurer,
in this or any other state; or (2) It has completed its initial organization and financing,
if a corporation, syndicate, or other organization other than an insurer, shall in this state
solicit or receive funds in exchange for its securities, other than when combining and selling,
for the account of its stockholders entitled thereto, fractional shares to which they become
entitled through a stock dividend to existing stockholders until it has applied to the commissioner
for, and has been granted, a solicitation permit. (b) The commissioner shall issue such a
permit unless he finds: (1) That the funds proposed to be...
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27-27-50
Section 27-27-50 Extinguishment and nullification of domestic insurers' corporate charter.
(a) The corporate charter of any corporation formed under the laws of this state more than
three years prior to January 1, 1972, for the purpose of becoming an insurer and which corporation
within such three-year period has not actively engaged in business as a domestic insurer under
a certificate of authority issued to it by the commissioner under laws then in force is hereby
extinguished and nullified. (b) The corporate charter of any other corporation formed under
the laws of this state for the purpose of becoming an insurer and which corporation during
any period of 36 consecutive months after January 1, 1972, is not actively engaged in business
as a domestic insurer under a certificate of authority issued to it by the commissioner under
laws currently in force is automatically hereby extinguished and nullified at the expiration
of such 36-month period. (c) The period during which any such...
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27-3-19
Section 27-3-19 Continuance, expiration, reinstatement and amendment of certificates. (a) Certificates
of authority issued or renewed under this title shall continue in force as long as the insurer
is entitled thereto under this title and until suspended, revoked or terminated at the request
of the insurer; subject, however, to continuance of the certificate by the insurer each year
by: (1) Payment prior to March 1 of the continuation fee provided in Section 27-4-2; and (2)
Due filing by the insurer of its annual statement for the calendar year preceding as required
under Section 27-3-26. (b) If not so continued by the insurer, its certificate of authority
shall expire at midnight on the May 31, next following, such failure of the insurer so to
continue it in force. The commissioner shall promptly notify the insurer of the occurrence
of any such failure resulting in impending expiration of its certificate of authority. (c)
The commissioner may, in his discretion, reinstate a...
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27-35-8
Section 27-35-8 Conversion into stock or mutual life insurance company - Completion; effect.
(a) When a fraternal benefit society has complied with the provisions of this chapter and
with the laws of this state relating to domestic stock life insurers or domestic mutual life
insurers, as the case may be, and has received from the commissioner a certificate of authority
to transact business in this state, its reorganization and conversion into such stock insurer
or mutual insurer shall be complete. (b) The reorganized and converted corporation shall be
deemed in law to be a continuation of the fraternal benefit society, whether the reorganization
and conversion shall have been accomplished by the formation of a new corporation or by the
amendment of the certificate of incorporation of the former society; and such reorganized
and converted corporation shall succeed to, and become invested with, all and singular, the
rights, privileges, franchises, and all property, real, personal, or...
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27-4A-4
Section 27-4A-4 Penalties. Every insurer failing to comply with the requirements of this chapter
shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $1,000 nor exceeding $10,000, recoverable in
an action brought by the Attorney General for the commissioner. Upon any violation, the commissioner
may suspend or revoke the insurer's certificate of authority. Penalties recovered under this
section shall be paid to the State Treasury to the credit of the State General Fund. (Acts
1993, No. 93-679, p. 1291, ยง4.)...
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27-11-2
Section 27-11-2 Prohibition against transaction of insurance business, etc., in state without
license; exceptions. It shall be unlawful for any insurer to transact the business of insurance
in this state or to enter into a contract for insurance in this state without first obtaining
a license or certificate of authority from the commissioner. This unauthorized insurers law
shall not apply to: (1) Contracts of insurance procured pursuant to the surplus line insurance
law; (2) Transactions in this state involving contracts of insurance lawfully entered into,
written and the policy delivered outside of this state covering subjects of insurance not
resident, located or expressly to be performed in this state at the time of issuance and transactions
subsequent to the making of such contract and the issuance of such policy; (3) Reinsurance
contracts; (4) Transactions in this state involving group or blanket insurance and group annuities
where the master policy or contract was lawfully issued...
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27-3-16
Section 27-3-16 Lloyd's insurers. Aggregations of individuals as underwriters, whether domestic,
foreign, or alien, assuming insurance risks upon the plan known as "Lloyd's," whereby
each underwriter is liable for the proportionate part assumed by him of the whole amount so
insured by a policy issued by such underwriters, may be authorized to transact any kind, or
kinds, of insurance in this state other than life or title insurances if the insurer is otherwise
in compliance with this title, subject to the following conditions: (1) If a foreign or alien
insurer, it must have successfully been in business as an authorized insurer in the state
or country of domicile for at least 10 years. (2) If a domestic insurer, it must file with
the commissioner evidence, satisfactory to him, that it has been soundly organized and that
its insurance operations will, at all times, be competently conducted by individuals having
the necessary experience in insurance underwriting and management to do so,...
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27-6-16
Section 27-6-16 Release of deposit - Filing of statement; authorization of release. (a) Before
authorizing the release of any deposit or excess portion thereof to the insurer, as provided
in Section 27-6-15, the commissioner shall require the insurer to file with him a statement
under its seal and the oath of its chief executive officer, or of its United States manager
in the case of an alien insurer, setting forth the facts upon which it bases its entitlement
to such release. (b) If release of the deposit is claimed by the insurer upon the ground that
its liabilities in this state, as to which the deposit was originally made and is held, have
been assumed by another insurer authorized to transact insurance in this state, the insurer
shall file with the commissioner a copy of the contract or agreement of such reinsurance.
(c) Upon being satisfied by such statement and such other information and evidence as he may
reasonably require and by such examination, if any, of the affairs of the...
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