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...(A)(1) No person may require as a condition precedent to the lending of money or the extension of credit, or any renewal thereof, that the person to whom such money or credit is extended or whose obligation a creditor is to acquire or finance, negotiate any policy or renewal thereof through a particular insurer or group of insurers or agent or group of agents. (2) No person may reject an insurance policy solely beca...

...If any person asks to be excused from attending and testifying or from producing any books, papers, records, correspondence, or other documents at any hearing on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture and notwithstanding is directed to give such testimony or produce such evidence, he must none the less comply with such direction,...

...(A) Any of the following acts in this state, effected by mail or otherwise, by any such unauthorized foreign or alien insurer; (1) the issuance or delivery of contracts or insurance to residents of this state, (2) the solicitation of applications for such contracts, (3) the collection of premiums, membership fees, assessments, or other considerations for such contracts, or (4) any other transaction of insurance busin...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 3901.382, 3901.383, 3901.384, and 3901.386 of the Revised Code, a third-party payer shall process a claim for payment for health care services rendered by a provider to a beneficiary in accordance with this section. (B)(1) Unless division (B)(2) or (3) of this section applies, when a third-party payer receives from a provider or beneficiary a claim on the standard claim form presc...

...(A) Any third-party payer that fails to comply with section 3901.381 of the Revised Code, or any contractual payment arrangement entered into under section 3901.383 of the Revised Code, shall pay interest in accordance with this section. (B) Interest shall be computed based upon the number of days that have elapsed between the date payment is due in accordance with section 3901.381 of the Revised Code or the contrac...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Automated transaction" has the same meaning as in section 1306.01 of the Revised Code, and includes electronic transactions between two or more persons conducting business pursuant to the laws of this state relating to insurance. (2) "Contact point" means any electronic identification to which messages can be sent, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (a) An el...

...(A) As used in sections 3901.45 and 3901.46 of the Revised Code: (1) "AIDS," "HIV," "AIDS-related condition," and "HIV test" have the same meanings as in section 3701.24 of the Revised Code. (2) "Insurer" means any person authorized to engage in the business of life or sickness and accident insurance under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code or any person or governmental entity providing health services coverage for ...

...(A)(1) If a negotiation undertaken pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 3902.51 of the Revised Code has not successfully concluded within thirty days, or if both parties agree that they are at an impasse, the provider, facility, emergency facility, or ambulance may send a request for arbitration to the superintendent of insurance and shall notify the health plan issuer of its request. To be eligible for arbitration...

...(A) Upon complaint or motion of any receiver, conservator, rehabilitator, or liquidator appointed in a proceeding under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code, any court of general jurisdiction may issue a temporary restraining order, a preliminary injunction, a permanent injunction, or such other orders that the court considers necessary and proper to prevent any one or more of the following: (1) The trans...

...(A) Any officer, manager, director, trustee, owner, employee, or agent of any insurer, or any other persons with authority over or in charge of any segment of the insurer's affairs, shall cooperate with the superintendent of insurance in any proceeding under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code or any investigation preliminary to the proceeding. The term "person" as used in this section includes, but is no...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may file in the court of common pleas a complaint alleging, with respect to a domestic insurer all of the following: (1) That there exist any grounds that would justify a court order for a formal delinquency proceeding against an insurer under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code; (2) That the interests of policyholders, creditors, or the public will be endangered by d...

...The superintendent of insurance may file a complaint in the court of common pleas for an order authorizing him to rehabilitate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state on any one or more of the following grounds: (A) The insurer is in such condition that the further transaction of business would be hazardous, financially, to its policyholders, creditors, or the public. (B) There is reasonable...

...(A) An order to liquidate the business of a domestic insurer shall appoint the superintendent of insurance and his successors in office as liquidator and shall direct the liquidator forthwith to take possession of the assets of the insurer and to administer them under the general supervision of the court. The liquidator shall be vested by operation of law with the title to all of the property, contracts, and rights o...

...(A) Unless the court otherwise directs, the liquidator shall give or cause to be given notice of the liquidation order as soon as possible to all of the following: (1) By first class mail and either by telegram or telephone to the superintendent of insurance or equivalent officer of each jurisdiction in which the insurer is doing business; (2) By first class mail to any guaranty association or foreign guaranty asso...

...(A) As soon as practicable but not more than two years from the date of an order of liquidation under section 3903.18 of the Revised Code of an insurer issuing assessable policies, the liquidator shall make a report to the court setting forth all of the following: (1) The reasonable value of the assets of the insurer; (2) The insurer's probable total liabilities; (3) The probable aggregate amount of the assessment...

...(A) The liquidator shall review all claims duly filed in the liquidation and shall make such further investigation as he considers necessary. He may compound, compromise, or in any other manner negotiate the amount for which claims will be recommended to the court except where the liquidator is required by law to accept claims as settled by any person or organization, including any guaranty association or foreign g...

...The court may cause audits to be made of the books of the superintendent of insurance relating to any proceeding established under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code, and a report of each audit shall be filed with the superintendent and with the court. The books, records, and other documents of the proceeding shall be made available to the auditor at any time without notice. The expense of each audit sha...

...(A) This section shall apply prior to the operative date of the valuation manual. (B) Every life insurance company doing business in this state shall annually submit to the superintendent the opinion of a qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by rule by the superintendent are computed appropriately, are based on assumpt...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Confidential information" means all of the following: (a) A memorandum in support of an opinion submitted under sections 3903.722 and 3903.726 of the Revised Code and any other documents, materials, and other information, including all working papers, and copies thereof, created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the superintendent or any other person in connection with su...

...(A) The obligations of sections 3904.01 to 3904.22 of the Revised Code apply to those insurance institutions, agents, or insurance support organizations that, on or after the effective date of these sections, do either of the following: (1) Collect, receive, or maintain information in connection with insurance transactions that pertains to natural persons who are residents of this state; (2) Engage in insurance tra...

...(A) In the event of an adverse underwriting decision, the insurance institution or agent responsible for the decision shall provide the applicant, policyholder, or individual proposed for coverage with the specific reason or reasons for the adverse underwriting decision in writing, or advise such person that upon written request he may receive the specific reason or reasons in writing. The institution or agent shall ...

...(A) Any person subject to an order of the superintendent of insurance under section 3904.19 of the Revised Code, or any person whose rights under sections 3904.01 to 3904.22 of the Revised Code were allegedly violated, may obtain a review of any order or report of the superintendent by filing in the appropriate common pleas court, within thirty days from the date of the service of such order or report, a written peti...

...(A) A natural person shall apply for a resident insurance agent license by submitting to the superintendent of insurance the uniform application or any other application prescribed by the superintendent, any additional information required by the superintendent, and a declaration made under penalty of refusal, suspension, or revocation of the license, that the statements made in the application are true, corre...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Customer" means a person who obtains the use of storage space from a self-service storage facility under the terms of a self-storage rental agreement. (2) "Endorsee" means an employee or authorized representative of a self-service storage facility authorized to sell or offer self-service storage insurance. (3) "Enrolled customer" means a customer who elects coverage under a self-s...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, any person licensed as an agent under this chapter may at any time surrender any or all licenses held by the person. (2) No agent shall surrender the agent's licenses if the superintendent of insurance is investigating any allegation of wrongdoing by the agent or has initiated proceedings under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and notice of an oppo...