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...Credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance shall be issued only in the following forms: (A) Individual policies of life insurance issued to debtors on the term plan; (B) Individual policies of accident and health insurance issued to debtors on a term plan including individual policies issued on a franchise plan, as defined in section 3923.11 of the Revised Code, or disability benefit provisions ...

...qual installments is secured by an individual policy of credit life insurance the amount of insurance shall at no time exceed the scheduled amount of indebtedness and, where secured by a group policy of credit life insurance, shall at no time exceed the amount of unpaid indebtedness. (B) The total amount of indemnity payable by credit accident and health insurance in the event of disability, as defined in the policy...

... any credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall, subject to acceptance by the insurer, commence on the date when the debtor becomes obligated to the creditor, or the date from which interest or finance charges accrue if later, except that, where a group policy provides coverage with respect to existing obligations, the insurance on a debtor with respect to such indebtedness shall commence on ...

...All credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance sold shall be evidenced by an individual policy, or in the case of group insurance by a certificate of insurance, which individual policy or group certificate of insurance shall be delivered to the debtor. (B) Each individual policy or group certificate of credit life insurance, or credit accident and health insurance, or both shall, in addition to o...

...ations for insurance, endorsements and riders providing coverage on residents of Ohio shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance. (B) The superintendent shall within thirty days after the filing of any such policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, endorsements, and riders, disapprove any such form if the table of premium rates charged or to be charged a...

...uing credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall file with the superintendent of insurance its schedules of premium rates for use in connection with such insurance. Any insurer may revise such schedules from time to time, and shall file such revised schedules with the superintendent. No insurer shall issue any credit life insurance policy for which the premium rate exceeds that determined by t...

... of credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state only by an insurer authorized to do an insurance business in this state.

...ce contract. (B) All claims shall be paid either by draft drawn upon the insurer or by check of the insurer to the order of the claimant to whom payment of the claim is due pursuant to the policy provisions, or upon direction of such claimant to one specified. (C) No plan or arrangement shall be used whereby any person, firm, or corporation other than the insurer or its designated claim representative shall be auth...

...When credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance is required as additional security for an indebtedness, the debtor shall, upon request to the creditor, have the option of furnishing the required amount of insurance through existing policies of insurance owned or controlled by him or of procuring and furnishing the required coverage through any insurer authorized to transact an insurance business wi...

...The superintendent may, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code, adopt such rules and regulations as he deems appropriate, for the enforcement of sections 3918.01 to 3918.11 of the Revised Code. Whenever the superintendent finds that there has been a violation of sections 3918.01 to 3918.13 of the Revised Code or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and after written notice thereof and he...

...Any party to the proceeding affected by an order of the superintendent shall be entitled to judicial review by following the procedure set forth in section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

... one thousand dollars. The penalty provided in this section is in addition to any other penalty provided by law.

...is chapter, "policy of sickness and accident insurance" includes any policy, contract, or certificate of insurance against loss or expense resulting from the sickness of the insured, or from the bodily injury or death of the insured by accident, or both, that is delivered, issued for delivery, renewed, or used in this state on or after the date occurring six months after the effective date of this amendment.

...s used in any policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, unless otherwise provided in the policy or in an indorsement thereon or in a rider attached thereto: (A) "Total disability" means inability to perform the duties of any gainful occupation for which the insured is reasonably fitted by training, experience, and accomplishment. (B) "Confinement to house" incl...

...provision of, any group sickness and accident insurance policy delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, and no policy of sickness and accident insurance shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, nor shall any indorsement, rider, or application which becomes or which is designed to become a part of any such policy or certificate be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this sta...

...ed in this section: (1) "Benefits provided are not unreasonable in relation to the premium charged" means the rates were calculated in accordance with sound actuarial principles. (2) "Individual policy of sickness and accident insurance" includes sickness and accident insurance made available by insurers in the individual market to individuals, with or without family members or dependents, through group policies ...

...rned by the insurer for sickness and accident insurance business plus the amount of losses recovered from reinsurance coverage minus the sum of the amount of claims for losses paid; the amount of losses incurred but not reported; the amount incurred for state fees, federal and state taxes, and reinsurance; and the incurred costs and expenses related, either directly or indirectly, to the payment of commissions, measu...

...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...

...Except as provided in section 3923.07 of the Revised Code, every policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state shall contain the standard provisions specified in this section in the words in which the same appear in this section. Such standard provisions shall be preceded individually by the caption appearing in this section or, at the option of the insurer, by such a...

...vices under a policy of sickness and accident insurance or a public employee benefit plan. (4) "Emergency service" has the same meaning as in section 1753.28 of the Revised Code. (5) "Fraudulent or materially incorrect information" means any type of intentional deception or misrepresentation made by a person with the knowledge that the deception could result in some unauthorized benefit to the covered person in que...

...Except as provided in section 3923.07 of the Revised Code, no policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state shall contain provisions respecting the matters set forth in this section unless such provisions are in the words in which the same appear in this section. Any such provisions in any such policy shall be preceded by the appropriate caption appearing in this sect...

...inted in each policy of sickness and accident insurance in the order in which such policy provisions are set forth in sections 3923.04 and 3923.05 of the Revised Code or, at the option of the insurer, any such policy provision may be printed as a unit in any part of any such policy along with other policy provisions to which such policy provision may be logically related, provided the resulting policy shall not be wh...

...he terms of a policy of sickness and accident insurance due to the death of the insured by sickness or accident. (B) The interest payable pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be computed from the date of the death of the insured to the date of the payment of the proceeds and shall be at whichever of the following rates is greater: (1) The annual short-term applicable federal rate for purposes of section 1...

...e or inconsistent with the coverage provided by a policy of sickness and accident insurance, the insurer shall, with the approval of the superintendent of insurance, omit from such policy any inapplicable provision or part of a provision and shall, with the approval of the superintendent, modify any inconsistent provision or part of a provision in such manner as to make the provision as contained in the policy consi...

...Any policy of sickness and accident insurance, indorsement, rider, or application which could have been lawfully delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state on October 1, 1953, may be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state until January 1, 1956, without being subject to sections 3923.04 to 3923.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code. A copy of the form of any policy of sickness and accident insu...