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...d by or organized under the laws of any foreign government, until such company, partnership, or association completes the following acts: (A) Deposits with the superintendent of insurance, for the benefit of policyholders of the company, partnership, or association, who are citizens or residents of the United States, securities to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, of the kind required for similar companies...

...Every company, partnership, or association described in section 3909.09 of the Revised Code shall file a statement of its condition and affairs in the office of the superintendent of insurance, in the form and manner required for the annual statements of similar companies organized under the laws of this state, and annually, on the first day of January, or within sixty days thereafter, shall file with the superintend...

... indirectly, shall act as agent for any company, partnership, or association described in section 3909.09 of the Revised Code, either in procuring applications for insurance, taking risks, or in any manner aiding in the transaction of the business of life insurance in this state, until it procures from the superintendent of insurance a certificate of authority, which shall be renewable annually, stating that sections...

...ance of the solvency and ability of the company, partnership, or association to meet all its engagements at maturity, he shall issue renewal certficates of authority to the agents thereof, certified copies of which must be filed-by said agents in the county recorder's office of the county where the agency is located and retained therewith for a minimum of two years from the date of filing. Such renewal certificates s...

...If a company, partnership, or association, organized without this state, neglects or refuses to make annual statements, all persons acting in this state as its agents, or otherwise, in transacting the business of insurance, shall be subject to the penalties provided by law in case of the failure of an insurance company organized under the laws of this state to make an annual statement.

...All licenses granted by the superintendent of insurance under sections 3907.01 to 3907.21, inclusive, and 3909.01 to 3909.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall continue in force, unless suspended or revoked, until the first day of April next after the date of their issuance.

...r commencing actions upon any policy or liability issued or contracted while it transacted business in this state, and service of process upon any such agent, for such causes, is a valid service upon the company, partnership, or association. This section does not limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice, or demand upon a company, partnership, or association in any other manner permitted by law.

...e, of the Revised Code do not prevent a company, partnership, or association mentioned in such sections from collecting the interest on any securities deposited by it, so long as it continues solvent and complies with such sections, nor do such sections prevent any such company, partnership, or association from exchanging them for other securities of equal value of the kind named in such sections, with the officers h...

...upplementary coverages to any policy of liability insurance as described in division (A) of section 3923.20 of the Revised Code. The business of life insurance, or life and accident insurance, in this state, shall not be in any way transacted by any company, partnership, or association which in this state, or in any other state or country, makes insurance on marine, fire, inland, or any other risk, or does a banking...

...ed in connection therewith. The reserve liability for such policies, annuities, and contracts shall be established in accordance with actuarial procedures that recognize the variable nature of the benefits and guarantees provided. Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code does not apply to any policy, annuity, or other contract providing fixed, variable, or fixed and variable benefits or contractual payments, that is issue...

...(A) Each life insurance company authorized to transact business in this state shall maintain reserves, with respect to any line of sickness and accident insurance that it writes, in at least all of the following amounts: (1) An amount that equals the unearned portions of the gross premiums charged on unexpired or unterminated risks and policies; (2) An amount that is estimated to be sufficient to provide for the ul...

...Every life insurance company doing business in this state, and issuing policies on both the participating and nonparticipating plans, shall file with the superintendent of insurance separate annual statements of profits and losses with reference to each of such kinds of insurance.

...Any insurance company that issues life insurance policies in this state shall file electronically, in a format prescribed by the superintendent of insurance, on or before June first of each year, a description of the measures taken by the insurance company to detect and prevent stranger-originated life insurance. The description shall be attested to by an officer of the company. The reports shall be maintained ...

...lding a policy of insurance issued by a company on the life of any person is entitled to be furnished by the company with a copy of any application or document held by it, either written or printed, upon which such policy was issued, or which may affect its validity. Upon demand made for such copy by the holder of a policy, or by any person upon whose life it was so issued, the company shall make and forthwith furnis...

...Every life insurance company doing business in this state shall return with, and as part of any policy issued by it, to any person taking such policy, a complete copy of each application or other document held by it which is intended in any manner to affect the force or validity of such policy. A company which neglects to do so is estopped from denying the truth of any such application or other document, so long as i...

...No life insurance company doing business in this state shall take any application, medical certificate, or other document, for insurance upon the life of any person, in cipher or by character of any sort other than ordinary written or printed language. Any application, medical certificate, or other document taken in violation of this section is void as against any person claiming under a policy of insurance issued th...

...it is material, and that it induced the company to issue the policy, that but for such answer the policy would not have been issued, and that the agent or company had no knowledge of the falsity or fraud of such answer.

...After having received three annual premiums on a policy issued on the life of any person in this state, all companies are estopped from defending upon any ground other than fraud against any claim arising upon such policy by reason of errors, omissions, or misstatements of the insured in an application made by him on which the policy was issued, except as to age.

...In respect to insurance issued upon the life of any minor, regardless of the age of the minor at the date of the issuance of said insurance, for the benefit of such minor, or for the benefit of the father, mother, husband, wife, child, brother, or sister of such minor, the insured is not, by reason only of such minority, incompetent to contract for such insurance, or for the surrender of such insurance, or to give a ...

...(A) Any person may procure, authorize procurement of, or effect an insurance on the person's life, for any definite period of time or for the term of the person's natural life, to inure to the benefit of the person's spouse and children, or either, or other persons dependent upon such person, or an institution or entity described in division (B)(1) of this section, or any creditor the person causes to be appointed an...

...torship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or any other entity that is doing business in this state. "Employer" also includes all entities or persons that are controlled by or affiliated with any such individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity. Whether an entity or person is controlled by or affiliated with another shall be determined by ap...

... any such contract is discharged of all liability thereon by the payment of its proceeds in accordance with its terms, unless, before such payment, written notice is given to it by a creditor, specifying the amount of the claim and the premiums which the creditor alleges have been fraudulently paid.

...A married person may individually and in such person's own name, or in the name of a third person with assent as the third person's trustee, cause the life of the person's spouse to be insured for such person's sole use, for any definite period or for the term of the natural life of such spouse, and, if any person obtaining such insurance survives such period or term, the amount of insurance becoming due and payable ...

...A policy of insurance on the life of any person, or any interest therein, assigned, transferred, or made payable to a married person, or to any person, firm, or corporation in trust for such married person or for such married person's benefit, whether such transfer is made by the spouse of such married person or by another person, shall inure to the benefit of such married person independently of the spouse of such m...

...h policy shall revert to and become the property of the party whose life is insured, unless it has been transferred.