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...There is hereby created a department of insurance which shall have all powers and perform all duties formerly vested in and imposed upon the department of commerce and the superintendent of insurance. In enacting sections 121.02, 121.03, 121.04, 121.05, 121.08, 121.081, 121.082, 3901.01, 3901.011, 3901.02, 3901.03, 3901.04, 3901.05, and 3901.051 of the Revised Code, it is the intent of the general assembly not to ch...

...(A) As used in this section, "insurer" means any person doing or authorized to do any insurance business in this state. (B)(1) Before issuing any license to do the business of insurance in this state, the superintendent of insurance, or a person appointed by the superintendent, may examine the financial affairs of any insurer. (2) The superintendent, or any person appointed by the superintendent, may examine, a...

...(A)(1)(a) Not later than June 1, 2017, an insurer domiciled in this state, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, that, as of December 31, 2015, has an annual, direct written and unaffiliated assumed premium totaling more than five billion dollars, shall submit to the superintendent a corporate governance annual disclosure that contains the information described in section 3901.074 of the Revised Co...

...Nothing in division (F) or (G) of section 3901.21 or in section 3933.01 of the Revised Code shall be construed as prohibiting any of the following practices: (A) In the case of any contract of life insurance or life annuity, paying bonuses to policyholders or otherwise abating their premiums in whole or in part out of surplus accumulated from nonparticipating insurance, provided that any such bonuses or abatement o...

...The board of directors of any domestic insurance company may at any time adopt emergency bylaws, subject to repeal or change by action of those having power to adopt regular bylaws for the company, which shall be operative during an emergency, and which may, notwithstanding any different provisions of the regular bylaws, or of the applicable statutes, or of the company's charter, make any provision reasonably necessa...

...(A)(1) The superintendent of insurance is authorized to act as the group-wide supervisor for any internationally active insurance group in accordance with this section. However, the superintendent may otherwise acknowledge a regulatory official from another jurisdiction as the group-wide supervisor for an internationally active insurance group, if the group meets any of the following conditions: (a) Does not have s...

...Unless exempted by section 3901.376 of the Revised Code, an insurer, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, shall regularly conduct an own risk and solvency assessment consistent with a process comparable to the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual. The own risk and solvency assessment shall be conducted not less than annually, but also at any time when there are significant change...

...(A)(1) An insurer shall be exempt from the requirements of sections 3901.371 to 3901.378 of the Revised Code if both of the following apply: (a) The insurer has annual direct written and unaffiliated assumed premium, including international direct and assumed premium, less than five hundred million dollars. (b) The insurance group of which the insurer is a member has annual direct written and unaffiliated ass...

...he complexity or burden of accessing, exchanging, or using such data. (3) Penalize a health care provider for disclosing such data to a covered person or for prescribing, administering, or ordering a clinically appropriate or lower-cost alternative. (H)(1) A health plan issuer, including a pharmacy benefit manager, shall treat a personal representative of a covered person as the covered person for purposes of thi...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance as rehabilitator may appoint one or more special deputies, who shall have all the powers and responsibilities of the rehabilitator granted under this section, and the superintendent may employ such clerks and assistants as considered necessary. The compensation of the special deputies, clerks, and assistants and all expenses of taking possession of the insurer and of conducti...

...(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) Whenever any third party asserts a cause of action against an insured of an insurer in liquidation, the third party may file a claim with the liquidator. (B) Whether or not the third party files a claim, the insured may file a claim on his own behalf in the liquidation. An insured who fails to file a claim by the date for filing claims specified in the order of liquidation or within sixty days after mailing of t...

...No insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization shall use as its disclosure authorization form in connection with insurance transactions a form or statement that authorizes the disclosure of personal or privileged information about an individual to the insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization, unless the form or statement: (A) Is written in plain language; (B) Is dated; (C...

...(A) No insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization may prepare or request an investigative consumer report about an individual in connection with an insurance transaction involving an application for insurance, a policy renewal, a policy reinstatement, or a change in insurance benefits unless the insurance institution or agent informs the individual that he may request to be interviewed in connect...

...(A) A person purchasing commercial insurance qualifies as an exempt commercial purchaser if, at the time of placement, the exempt commercial purchaser satisfies all of the following requirements: (1) The person employs or retains a qualified risk manager to negotiate insurance coverage. (2) The person has paid aggregate nationwide commercial property and casualty insurance premiums in excess of one hundred t...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an agent may charge a consumer a fee if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The fee is disclosed to the consumer in a manner that separately identifies the fee and the premium. (2) The fee is not calculated as a percentage of the premium. (3) The fee is not refunded, forgiven, waived, offset, or reduced by any commission earned or received for any ...

...(A) An insurer making investments under this chapter shall consider the factors listed in division (C) of this section along with its business in determining whether an investment portfolio or investment policy is prudent. (B) The superintendent shall consider the factors listed in division (C) of this section prior to making a determination that an insurer's investment portfolio or investment policy is not ...

...(A) If the superintendent determines that an insurer's investment practices do not meet the requirements of this chapter, the superintendent may, after notification to the insurer of the superintendent's findings, order the insurer to make changes necessary to comply with this chapter. (B) If the superintendent determines that the financial condition, current investment practice, or current investment plan of...

...Any legal reserve life insurance company organized under the laws of this state may invest its capital in the stocks, bonds, or mortgages authorized by section 3907.05 of the Revised Code, and may change and invest it or any part thereof in like manner. No company shall commence business until it has deposited with the superintendent of insurance at least one hundred thousand dollars, in such stocks, bonds, or mortga...

...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 ...

...No life insurance company doing business in this state, and no officer, director, representative, or other agent thereof, or any other person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, shall knowingly make, issue, or circulate, or cause or knowingly permit to be made, issued, or circulated, any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement of any sort which misrepresents the terms of any policy issued or to be...

...Life insurance policies may provide for not more than one year preliminary term insurance by incorporation therein of the following clause immediately preceding the "change of beneficiary" clause: "The first year's insurance under this policy is term insurance." If the premium charged for term insurance under a limited payment life or endowment preliminary term policy, providing for the payment of all premiu...

...This section applies to all policies of life insurance, not excluded by division (N) of section 3915.071 of the Revised Code, that are delivered, or issued for delivery, in this state on or after January 1, 1989. (A) Upon default in payment of the premium due on a policy anniversary, the cash surrender value shall not differ by more than two-tenths of one per cent of the amount of insurance from the sum of th...

...(A) This section shall be known as the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities. (B) This section does not apply to any reinsurance, group annuity purchased under a retirement plan or plan of deferred compensation established or maintained by an employer, including a partnership or sole proprietorship, or by an employee organization, or by both, other than a plan providing individual retirement ...

...Any life insurance company, at the request of the policyholder, may exchange, alter, or convert any policy of life or endowment insurance or any annuity issued by it for or into a policy of another plan of insurance or annuity as of a date not prior to the effective date of the original policy or annuity. If such newly written policy or annuity is issued as of a date prior to the date of the application for exchange,...