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...(A) Except for those records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation and prosecution, or as otherwise required by law, no government entity or official, and no agent or employee of a governmental entity shall knowingly keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or the owners of those firearms. (B) No financial institution or agent of a financial institution...

...(A)(1) The attorney general shall investigate reasonable allegations that a person or entity, including a government entity, has violated section 1349.85 of the Revised Code and, upon finding a violation, provide written notice to the person or entity believed to have committed the violation. The person or entity shall cease the violation within thirty days after receiving notice from the attorney general under this ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 1349.06 or 1349.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B)(1) Whoever violates section 1349.45 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (2) Notwithstanding division (B)(1) of this section, the only remedies that are available for a violation of section 1349.45 of the Revised Code by a registrant or licensee under Chapter 1322. of the Revised ...

...t adopted by the supreme court; (c) A health insurer, medical provider, or assignee that has paid, is obligated to pay, or is owed sums for a claimant's health care under the terms of a health insurance plan or agreement; (d) A financial institution providing loans to the claimant or the claimant's attorney or law firm, the repayment of which is not contingent upon the outcome of the legal claim or on the outcome...

...egulations concerning a narrow range of consumer legal funding agreements and commercial litigation financing agreements as contemplated in the holding of the Ohio Supreme Court in Rancman v. Interim Settlement Funding Corp., 99 Ohio St.3d 121 (2003). The general assembly intends to preserve and reinforce the general public policy expressed in that holding against champerty and maintenance.

...the effective date of this section, all consumer legal funding companies shall register with the attorney general prior to commencing any business activity in this state. (B) The attorney general shall establish a process that allows consumer legal funding companies to register under this section. Such registration shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) The consumer legal funding company's name an...

...(A) A consumer legal funding company shall not enter into, or seek to enter into, a consumer legal funding agreement unless all of the following apply: (1) The agreement is completely filled-in when presented to the consumer for signature. (2) The agreement includes space on each page for the consumer's initials. (3) The front page of the agreement includes all of the following disclosures under appropriate hea...

...onsideration to any attorney, law firm, health care provider, chiropractor, or physical therapist, or to any employee or agent of the foregoing, for referring a consumer to the company; (B) Accept any commission, referral fee, rebate, or other form of consideration from an attorney, law firm, health care provider, chiropractor, or physical therapist, or from any employee or agent of the foregoing; (C) Purposefull...

...(A) An attorney retained by a consumer in a legal claim shall not disclose confidential or privileged information to a consumer legal funding company without first obtaining written consent from the consumer and without first ensuring that the disclosure is not prohibited by court rules, a court order, or the rules of professional conduct adopted by the supreme court. (B) No law firm or attorney that has a financia...

...A consumer legal funding agreement places a lien on the proceeds of the consumer's legal claim that supersedes all subsequently perfected liens on such proceeds other than liens directly related to the legal claim and expressly authorized by state or federal law, such as a lien for attorneys fees, a lien by the department of medicaid under section 5160.37 of the Revised Code, a medicare lien under 42 U.S.C. 1395y, or...

...(A) No consumer legal funding company shall knowingly enter into a consumer legal financing agreement with a person or entity that is not domiciled in the United States or respecting a legal claim that is financed, directly or indirectly, by a person or entity not domiciled in the United States. (B) No commercial litigation financier shall knowingly enter into a commercial litigation financing agreement with a pers...

...(A) Beginning ninety days after the effective date of this section, all commercial litigation financiers shall register with the attorney general prior to commencing any business activity in this state. (B) The attorney general shall establish a process that allows commercial litigation financiers to register under this section. Such registration shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) The commerci...

...ll promptly publish the contents of the consumer litigation financing agreements included in the disclosure to the attorney general's publicly accessible web site. Prior to making the documents available, either on the web site or in response to a public records request made under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall redact all legally required confidential information from the disclosure, i...

...ng a commercial litigation financier or consumer legal funding company from doing business in this state in the capacity as a commercial litigation financier or a consumer legal funding company, if the commercial litigation financier or consumer legal funding company is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have violated this chapter.

...ter: (A) "Alliance" or "small employer health care alliance" means an existing or newly created organization that has been granted a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance under section 1731.021 of the Revised Code and that is either of the following: (1) A chamber of commerce, trade association, professional organization, or any other organization that has all of the following characteristics:...

...ined and declared that the provision of health care to employees and retirees in this state and to their dependents and families is of paramount public importance to the economic and general welfare of the people of the state, that rising costs of health care have made it difficult for small employers to provide for health care benefits, that the creation of alliances of small employers to bargain with insurers bette...

...July 1, 1996, shall sponsor an alliance health care program without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the superintendent of insurance. (B) Application for a certificate of authority to sponsor an alliance program shall be made by an organization in writing and in the form prescribed by the superintendent. (C) The superintendent shall, within ninety days after receipt of an application filed pursuant t...

...(A) A small employer health care alliance may do any of the following: (1) Negotiate and enter into agreements with one or more insurers for the insurers to offer and provide one or more health benefit plans to small employers for their employees and retirees, and the dependents and members of the families of such employees and retirees, which coverage may be made available to enrolled small employers without regar...

..., submits a request for a proposal on a health benefit plan to at least three insurers and does not receive at least one reasonably responsive proposal within ninety days from the date the last such request is submitted, the superintendent, at the request of such alliance, may require that insurers offer proposals to such alliance for health benefit plans for the small employers within such alliance. Such proposals s...

...(A) No health benefit plan offered or provided by an insurer to a small employer under a qualified alliance program is subject to any law that does any of the following: (1) Inhibits the insurer from selectively contracting with providers or groups of providers with respect to health care service or benefits; (2) Imposes any restrictions on the ability of the insurer to negotiate with providers regarding the level ...

... eligible employees or retirees under a health benefit plan provided by the insurer under a qualified alliance program shall not be considered "premiums received" or "premium rate payments received" for purposes of division (A) of section 5725.18 and division (A) of section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, and are exempt from any other tax or excise in this state.

...rolled small employer to an insurer for health benefit plan coverage under a qualified alliance program are fully deductible in determining taxes payable by such small employer in this state on or measured by net income. Without limiting the foregoing: (A) With respect to such a small employer that is subject to the income tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, such premiums are to be deducted in determ...

...hapter 3924. of the Revised Code to any health benefit plan or insurer to which they would otherwise apply in the absence of this chapter, except as otherwise specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section or unless such application conflicts with the provisions of section 1731.05 of the Revised Code. (B) An insurer may establish one or more separate classes of business solely comprised of one or more alliances...

...s used in this chapter: (A)(1) "Basic health care services" means the following services when medically necessary: (a) Physician's services, except when such services are supplemental under division (B) of this section; (b) Inpatient hospital services; (c) Outpatient medical services; (d) Emergency health services; (e) Urgent care services; (f) Diagnostic laboratory services and diagnostic and therapeut...

...of authority to establish and operate a health insuring corporation. If the corporation applying for a certificate of authority is a foreign corporation domiciled in a state without laws similar to those of this chapter, the corporation must form a domestic corporation to apply for, obtain, and maintain a certificate of authority under this chapter. (B) No person shall establish, operate, or perform the servi...