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...(A) Any fraternal benefit society authorized to transact business in this state shall have and maintain an agent upon whom may be served any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a society. The agent required under this section may be a natural person residing in this state or a corporation holding a license under the laws of this state that is authorized by its articles of...

...No policy of sickness and accident insurance shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state unless all the following requirements are complied with: (A) The entire money and other considerations therefor are expressed therein. (B) The time at which insurance takes effect and terminates is expressed therein. (C) It purports to insure only one person, except that a policy may be issued to the head of...

...Industrial sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance under individual policies for which the premium is payable weekly, and includes any such policy which covers sickness only or accident only. Any insurer authorized to make, transact, or issue sickness and accident insurance in this state may make, transact, or issue industrial sickness and accident insurance in this state. No...

...(A) Group sickness and accident insurance is that form of sickness and accident insurance covering any group of two or more employees, members, or other persons, with or without one or more of their dependents and members of their immediate families. Such insurance may be offered to groups without regard to the purpose or type of group or the occupation of the employees, members, or other persons insured under the po...

...If, after notice and hearing, the superintendent of insurance finds that any insurer, insurance agent, solicitor, or broker has delivered or issued for delivery or use in this state any policy of sickness and accident insurance on a form which has been disapproved by the superintendent of insurance or has violated sections 3923.01 to 3923.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or an order of the superintendent made in a...

...ss for approving or disapproving policy forms and certificate forms and proposed premium increases; (5) Establishing a policy for holding public hearings prior to approval of premium increases; and (6) Establishing standards for medicare select policies and certificates. (F) The superintendent may adopt reasonable rules that specify prohibited policy provisions not otherwise specifically authorized by any provisio...

...The form of all long-term care insurance policies and applications shall be filed and approved in accordance with section 3923.02 of the Revised Code.

...Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, every individual policy of sickness and accident insurance that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state is subject to the following conditions, as applicable: (A) Pre-existing conditions provisions shall not exclude or limit coverage for a period beyond twelve months following the policyholder's effective date of coverage and may only relate to cond...

...(A) Any foreign insurance company that transacts any business in this state shall have and maintain an agent, sometimes referred to as the "statutory agent," upon whom any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a company may be served. The agent may be a natural person residing in this state or may be a corporation holding a license under the laws of this state that is authorized by...

...As used in sections 3929.50 to 3929.61 of the Revised Code: (A) "Mine subsidence" means loss caused by the collapse or lateral or vertical movement of structures resulting from the caving in of underground mines, including coal mines, clay mines, limestone mines, and salt mines. "Mine subsidence" does not include loss caused by earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, or collapse of strip mines, storm and sewer dra...

...lassifications, territories, and policy forms applicable to the insurance written by the association, and statistics relating thereto, are subject to Chapter 3937. of the Revised Code, giving due consideration to the past and prospective loss and expense experience for commercial insurance, trends in the frequency and severity of losses, the stabilization reserve fund, and such other information as the superintendent...

...The superintendent of insurance shall promulgate rules and statistical plans, reasonably adopted to each of the rating systems on file with him, which may be modified from time to time and which shall be used thereafter by each insurer in the recording and reporting of its loss and country-wide expense experience, in order that the experience of all insurers may be made available at least annually in such form and de...

...uch application shall be in the form or forms and supplements thereto prescribed by the superintendent and shall set forth: (1) The name and address of the applicant, and if the applicant be a firm, association, or partnership, the name and address of each member thereof, and if the applicant be a corporation, the name and address of each of its officers and directors; (2) Whether any license or certificate of au...

...(A) For the purpose of providing the funds necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, the board of directors shall assess the member insurers, separately for each subaccount or account, at such time and for such amounts as the board finds necessary. Assessments shall be due not less than thirty days after prior written notice to the member insurers and sha...

...No administrator shall do any of the following: (A) Use plan sponsor funds for any purpose or purposes not specifically set forth in written form by the administrator; (B) Fail to disclose in written solicitation material and on an on-going basis, at least once annually, to the plan sponsor all of the following: (1) All fixed plan costs, identifying what each fixed cost includes; (2) Levels of the specific excess...

...(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...

...r persons with respect to rates, policy forms, coverages, or other matters; (3) Prohibits a purchasing group or its members from purchasing insurance on a group basis described in division (A)(2) of this section; (4) Prohibits a purchasing group from obtaining insurance on a group basis because the group has not been in existence for a minimum period of time or because any member has not belonged to the group for a...

...(A) As used in sections 3964.17 to 3964.1710 of the Revised Code: (1) "Protected cell" means an incorporated cell that is organized pursuant to Chapter 1701., 1702., 1705., or 1706. of the Revised Code and that has a separate legal identity from the protected cell captive insurance company of which it is a part. (2) "Protected cell captive insurance company" means a captive insurance company that meets all of the...

...greements, derivatives, and other legal forms of financial instruments. (6) "Special purpose financial captive insurance company contract" means a contract between a special purpose financial captive insurance company and a counterparty pursuant to which the special purpose financial captive insurance company agrees to provide insurance or reinsurance protection to the counterparty for risks associated with the cou...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Assuming insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.61 of the Revised Code. (B) "Authorized individual" means an individual authorized by the licensee to access nonpublic information held by the licensee and its information systems. (C) "Ceding insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.61 of the Revised Code. (D) "Consumer" means an individual who is a resident of th...

...It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice: (A) For any employer, because of the race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry of any person, to discharge without just cause, to refuse to hire, or otherwise to discriminate against that person with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly related to...

... on the person's conscience. Acceptable forms include, but are not limited to, declarations made under penalty of perjury. (4) Any charge timely received, via facsimile, postal mail, electronic mail, or otherwise, may be signed under oath after the limitations period for filing set forth under division (C) of this section and will relate back to the original filing date. (D)(1) Upon receiving a charge under this ...

...hourly rates of pay, salaries, or other forms of compensation for services rendered. (N) "Member of a police department" means a person who is in the employ of a police department of a municipal corporation as a full-time regular police officer as the result of an appointment from a duly established civil service eligibility list or under section 737.15 or 737.16 of the Revised Code, a full-time deputy sheriff appoi...

...(A) There is hereby created the bureau of workers' compensation, which shall be administered by the administrator of workers' compensation. A person appointed to the position of administrator shall possess significant management experience in effectively managing an organization or organizations of substantial size and complexity. A person appointed to the position of administrator also shall possess a minimum of fiv...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission jointly shall adopt rules covering the following general topics with respect to this chapter and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code: (1) Rules that set forth any general policy and the principal operating procedures of the bureau of workers' compensation or commission, including but not limited to: (a) Assignment to various operational un...