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27-52-21
Section 27-52-21 Commissioner of Insurance; benefits offered to small employers; "small
employer" defined. (a) The Commissioner of Insurance shall, by regulation, establish
the conditions, restrictions, requirements, and plan of operation of the Alabama Small Employer
Allocation Program consistent with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 and any and all federal regulations adopted pursuant thereto, which
plan benefits shall be inclusive of the provisions of Sections 27-1-10 and 27-19-39. The program
shall be patterned after the Small Employer Health Insurance Availability models developed
by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (b) All insurers that offer health
benefit plans to small employers in this state on and after August 1, 1997, shall be required
to meet the requirements of the program as a condition of authority to transact business in
this state. (c) For the purposes of this article, a "small employer" means any...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October
1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon
appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent
of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one
or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco
control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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36-30-50
Section 36-30-50 Supplemental insurance coverage for firefighters with cancer. (a) For the
purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CANCER.
Includes bladder, blood, brain, breast, cervical, esophageal, intestinal, kidney, lymphatic,
lung, prostate, rectum, respiratory tract, skin, testicular, and thyroid cancer, leukemia,
multiple myeloma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (2) CAREER FIREFIGHTER.
Any person employed with the state, a county or municipal government, an airport authority,
or a fire district who has obtained certification as a firefighter through and as defined
by the Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission, or a firefighter
employed by the Alabama Forestry Commission who has been certified by the State Forester as
having met the wild land firefighter training standard of the National Wildfire Coordinating
Group, and is offered typical employment benefits, including health insurance...
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27-7-1
Section 27-7-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) BUSINESS ENTITY. A corporation,
association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other
legal entity. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance. (3) HOME STATE. The
District of Columbia and any state or territory of the United States in which an insurance
producer maintains his or her principal place of residence or principal place of business
and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. (4) INSURANCE. As defined in Section 27-1-2.
(5) INSURANCE PRODUCER or PRODUCER. A person required to be licensed under the laws of this
state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. (6) INSURER. As defined in Section 27-1-2.
For the purposes of this chapter, insurer shall also mean an insurance company licensed pursuant
to Chapter 3, commencing with Section 27-3-1 of this title; a health...
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27-3-11
Section 27-3-11 Deposit requirements - Generally. (a) The commissioner shall not issue or permit
to exist a certificate of authority as to any insurer, other than an alien insurer, unless
it has deposited and maintains deposited in trust with the Treasurer of this state cash or
securities eligible under Section 27-6-3 and having a value at all times of not less than
$100,000.00 or the minimum paid-in capital stock, if a stock insurer, or surplus, if a mutual
or reciprocal insurer, required to be maintained by the insurer under this title for authority
to transact the kinds of insurance to be transacted, whichever is the smaller amount. (b)
The deposit shall be for the general benefit and protection of the insurer's policyholders
or its policyholders and creditors. (c) In lieu of such deposit, or part thereof, in this
state of a foreign insurer, the commissioner shall, subject to the retaliatory law, Section
27-3-29, accept the current certificate in proper form of the public official...
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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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25-14-9
Section 25-14-9 Written contract; rights and duties of clients; employees, and professional
employer organizations. (a) All professional employer organization arrangements shall have
a written contract between the client and the professional employer organization recognizing
the rights, responsibilities, and duties of each party. The contract shall disclose to the
client the services to be rendered by the professional employer organization, including the
total administrative fees charged for professional employer organization services, the respective
rights and obligations of the parties, and shall provide the following: (1) The professional
employer organization reserves a right of direction and control over contract employees and
exercises that right in the context of the need to do so according to the terms and conditions
of the professional employment agreement. The client, however, as an employer, may retain
sufficient direction and control over covered employees necessary to...
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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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27-44-3
Section 27-44-3 Scope of chapter. (a) This chapter shall provide coverage for the policies
and contracts specified in subsection (b) as follows: (1) To persons who, regardless of where
they reside (except for non-resident certificate holders under group policies or contracts),
are the beneficiaries, assignees, or payees of the persons covered under subdivision (2).
(2) To persons who are owners of or certificate holders under the policies or contracts, other
than structured settlement annuities, and in each case who are either of the following: a.
Residents b. Not residents, but only under all of the following conditions: 1. The insurer
that issued the policies or contracts is domiciled in this state. 2. The states in which the
persons reside have associations similar to the association created by this chapter. 3. The
persons are not eligible for coverage by an association in any other state due to the fact
the insurer was not licensed in the state at the time specified in the state's...
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27-1-22
Section 27-1-22 Uniform prescription drug information card or technology. (a) Every health
benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs or devices, or administers a plan,
including, but not limited to, third party administrators for self-insured plans and state
administered plans, excluding the Alabama Medicaid Program, shall issue to its insureds a
card or other technology containing prescription drug information. The uniform prescription
drug information card or technology shall be in the format approved by the National Council
for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and shall include all of the required fields and conform
to the most recent pharmacy ID card or technology implementation guide produced by NCPDP or
conform to a national format acceptable to the Commissioner of Insurance. If a health care
plan includes a conditional or situational field, it shall conform to the most recent pharmacy
information card or technology implementation guide by the NCPDP or conform...
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