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...(A) The chief or head law enforcement officer of any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency or a prosecuting attorney of any county may request any insurance company, or agent authorized by the company to act on its behalf, that has investigated or is investigating a claim involving motor vehicle insurance or vessel insurance to release any information in its possession relevant to the claim. The company or ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Automobile insurance policies" has the same meaning as in section 3937.30 of the Revised Code. (2) "Moving violation" means any violation of any statute or ordinance that regulates the operation of vehicles, streetcars, or trackless trolleys on highways or streets or that regulates size or load limitations or fitness requirements of vehicles. "Moving violation" does not include the...

...(A) Any number of persons of lawful age, not less than ten in number, owning insurable property in this state, may associate themselves together for the purpose of insuring each other against the risk of direct physical loss or damage to property in this state, including theft of property in this state, except loss or damage to motor vehicles caused by collision. Any association organized under this section sha...

...As used in sections 3941.01 to 3941.34, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Company" includes corporations and associations. (B) "Domestic" designates companies organized under the laws of this state. (C) "Foreign" designates companies organized under the laws of another state or territory. (D) "Alien" designates companies organized under the laws of any country other than the United States, or some state, provi...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Automobile insurance policy" has the same meaning as in section 3937.30 of the Revised Code. (B) "Chauffeured limousine" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Digital network" means any online-enabled application, software, web site, or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides with transporta...

...(A)(1) Each transportation network company driver shall be covered by a primary automobile insurance policy that recognizes that the driver is a transportation network company driver or otherwise uses a vehicle to transport passengers for compensation and provides coverage during both of the following periods of time: (a) While the driver is logged on to the transportation network company's digital network; (b) Whi...

...(A) An insurer issuing an automobile insurance policy to the owner or operator of a personal vehicle may exclude any and all coverage afforded under the policy for any loss or injury that occurs while a transportation network company driver is logged on to a transportation network company's digital network or while the driver is providing transportation network company services. This right to exclude any and all cove...

...The superintendent of insurance may suspend or revoke any certificate of authority issued pursuant to sections 3951.01 to 3951.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or refuse to issue a certificate of authority to any applicant if, after due investigation, notice, and hearing, either before him or before any employee of the insurance department designated by him, whose report he may adopt, he determines that such appl...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Title insurance" means insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying owners of real property or others interested in real property against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens or encumbrances upon, defect in, or the unmarketability of the title to the real property, guaranteeing, warranting, or otherwise insuring by a title insurance company the correctness of searches relating to the ...

...(A)(1) Each title insurance agent or title insurance company shall establish and maintain an interest-bearing trust account for the deposit of all non-directed escrow funds that meet the requirements of sections 1349.20 to 1349.22 of the Revised Code. (2) The account shall be established and maintained in any federally insured bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or savings bank that is authorized to t...

...(A) At the time an order is placed with a title insurance company for issuance of a title insurance policy, the title insurance company or the title insurance agent shall offer closing or settlement protection to the lender, borrower, and seller of the property, and to any applicant for title insurance. (B) The closing or settlement protection offered pursuant to this section shall indemnify any lender, borrower, se...

...Sections 3955.01 to 3955.19 of the Revised Code apply to all kinds of direct insurance, except: (A) Title insurance; (B) Fidelity or surety bonds, or any other bonding obligations; (C) Credit insurance, vendors' single interest insurance, collateral protection insurance, or any similar insurance protecting the interests of a creditor arising out of a creditor-debtor transaction; (D) Mortgage guaranty, financial g...

...(A)(1) Subject to any conditions imposed as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association may do either of the following with respect to an impaired member insurer: (a) Guarantee, assume, reissue, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, reissued, or reinsured, any or all of the policies or contracts of the impaired insurer; (b) Provide the moneys, ...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall: (1) Upon request of the board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, provide the association with a statement of the premiums in this and any other appropriate states for each member insurer; (2) When an impairment is declared and the amount of the impairment is determined, serve a demand upon the impaired insurer to make good the impair...

...To aid in the detection and prevention of member insurer insolvencies or impairments: (A) The superintendent of insurance shall do all of the following: (1) Notify the commissioners of insurance of all the other states, territories of the United States, and the District of Columbia when the superintendent takes any of the following actions against a member insurer: (a) Revocation of license; (b) Suspension of...

...(A) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce the liability for unpaid assessments of the insureds or enrollees of an impaired or insolvent insurer operating under a plan with assessment liability. (B) Records shall be kept of all resolutions adopted by the Ohio life and health guaranty association in carrying out its powers and duties under section 3956.08 of the Revised Code. The records shall be made ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Administration fees" means any amount charged a covered person for services rendered. "Administration fees" includes commissions earned or paid by any person relative to services performed by an administrator. (B) "Administrator" means any person who adjusts or settles claims on, residents of this state in connection with life, dental, health, prescription drugs, or disability insur...

...(A)(1)(a) In each contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a pharmacy, the pharmacy shall be given the right to obtain from the pharmacy benefit manager, within ten days after any request, a current list of the sources used to determine maximum allowable cost pricing. In each contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a pharmacy, the pharmacy benefit manager shall be obligated to update and implement the ...

...(A) Administrators shall maintain detailed books and records that reflect all administered transactions specifically in regard to premiums or contributions received and deposited and claims and authorized expenses paid. (B) The detailed preparation, journalizing, and posting of such books and records shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of the service agreement between the administrator and the ...

...(A)(1) Every application form for insurance from a risk retention group and every policy or certificate of insurance issued by a risk retention group shall contain in ten-point type on the front page and the declaration page, the following notice: "Notice This policy is issued by your risk retention group. Your risk retention group may not be subject to all of the insurance laws and regulations of your state. Sta...

...(A) No purchasing group shall conduct business in this state unless it has done both of the following: (1) Issued a notice to the superintendent of insurance that does all of the following: (a) Identifies the state in which the purchasing group is domiciled and all other states in which the group intends to do business; (b) Specifies the lines and classifications of liability insurance that the purchasing group...

...As used in sections 3961.01 to 3961.09 of the Revised Code: (A)(1) "Discount medical plan" means a business arrangement or contract in which a person, in exchange for fees, dues, charges, or other consideration, offers access to members to providers of medical services and the right to receive discounted medical services from those providers. (2) "Discount medical plan" does not include any of the following: (a) A...

...(A) A discount medical plan organization shall not offer to members, or advertise to prospective members, discounted medical services unless the services are offered pursuant to a provider agreement. A discount medical plan organization may enter into a provider agreement directly with a provider, indirectly through a provider network to which a provider belongs, or through another discount medical plan organization ...

...(A) A discount medical plan organization or marketer shall disclose all of the following information in writing in not less than twelve-point type on the first content page of any advertisements, marketing materials, or brochures made available to the public relating to a discount medical plan and with any enrollment forms: (1) A statement that the discount medical plan is not insurance; (2) A statement that...

...A discount medical plan organization shall not do any of the following: (A) Except when otherwise permitted in sections 3961.01 to 3961.09 of the Revised Code, as a disclaimer of any relationship between discount medical plan benefits and insurance, or in a description of an insurance product connected with a discount medical plan, use the term "insurance" in the organization's advertisements, marketing material, br...