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... against accidental personal injury and loss of life sustained while traveling by railroad, steamboat, or other mode of conveyance, against accidental personal injury and loss of life sustained by accident of every description, and against expenses and lost of time occasioned by injury or sickness, on such terms, and for such periods of time, and confined to such countries and localities and to such persons as from t...

...No officer, director, trustee, agent, or employee of any insurance company, corporation, or association authorized to transact business in this state shall knowingly use underwriting standards or rates that result in unfair discrimination against any person with a disability. This section does not prevent reasonable classifications of persons with disabilities for determining insurance rates. As used in this sectio...

...(A) No person shall establish, operate, or maintain any entity that delivers, issues for delivery, or renews any policy of sickness and accident insurance or contract for health care services in this state if the entity is required to, but does not, have a valid certificate of authority under Chapter 1751. or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code. (B) No insurance agent, broker, or other person shall advertise, solicit, n...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Deceptive," "insurer," "policy," and "statement" have the same meanings as in section 2913.47 of the Revised Code. (2) "Defraud" has the same meaning as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (B) All applications for group or individual insurance issued by an insurer and all claim forms issued by an insurer, for use by persons in applying for insurance or submitting a claim for p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Claim" means any attempt to cause a health care insurer to make payment of a health care benefit. (2) "Health care benefit" means the right under a contract or a certificate or policy of insurance to have a payment made by a health care insurer for a specified health care service. (3) "Health care insurer" means any person that is authorized to do the business of sickness and acci...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Fraudulent insurance act" means an act committed by a person who, knowingly and with intent to defraud, presents, causes to be presented, or prepares with knowledge or belief that it will be presented to or by an insurer, purported insurer, broker, or any agent thereof, any written statement as part of, or in support of, an application for the issuance of, or the rating of a policy ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Certificate holder" means any person whose employment or retirement status is the basis of eligibility for coverage under a group policy of sickness and accident insurance or for enrollment under a group contract of a health insuring corporation. (2) "Health insurer" means any sickness and accident insurer or health insuring corporation. (B) Each person to whom a group policy or c...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 3999.37 and 3999.38 of the Revised Code: (1) "Insurer" means any person that is authorized to engage in the business of insurance in this state under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, any health insuring corporation, or any other person engaging either directly or indirectly in this state in the business of insurance or entering into contracts substantially amounting to insura...

...No person shall do any of the following: (A) Conceal any property belonging to an insurer; (B) Transfer or conceal his own property or property belonging to an insurer in contemplation of a proceeding under Chapter 3903. of the Revised Code; (C) Conceal, destroy, multilate, alter, or make a false entry in any document that affects or relates to the property of an insurer; (D) Withhold any document that affects or...

...No insurer shall knowingly declare or pay any dividend whenever the insurer is impaired. For purposes of this section, "insurer" also includes any person doing the business of insurance in this state.

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, every insurer, as defined in division (A) of section 3999.36 of the Revised Code, shall adopt an antifraud program and shall specify in a written plan the procedures it will follow when instances of insurance fraud or suspected insurance fraud are brought to its attention. The insurer shall identify in the written plan the person or persons responsible for the ...

...(A) If an insurer, as defined in division (A) of section 3999.36 of the Revised Code, has a reasonable belief that a person is perpetrating or facilitating an insurance fraud, as established by section 2913.47 of the Revised Code, or has done so, the insurer shall notify the department of insurance. (B) The notification required by division (A) of this section shall be made in accordance with rules adopted by the de...

...(A) Whoever violates section 3999.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (B) Whoever violates section 3999.03, 3999.07, 3999.13, 3999.14, or 3999.15 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates section 3999.04, 3999.05, 3999.08, or 3999.09 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (D) Whoever violates section 39...

...The owner of a building or premises, and the person renting or leasing them, if the owner or person knows that intoxicating liquors are to be sold in the building or premises in violation of law is severally or jointly liable with the person selling the intoxicating liquors for all damages sustained, as well as exemplary damages.

...The unlawful sale or gift of intoxicating liquors shall forfeit all rights of the lessee or tenant under any lease or contract of rent upon premises where such unlawful sale or gift takes place.

...Fines, costs, and damages assessed against a person in consequence of the sale of intoxicating liquors, as provided in sections 4399.02 to 4399.08 of the Revised Code, and the penal statutes relating to the sale, shall be a lien upon the real estate of the person. The real estate and personal property of the person shall be liable to execution for the fines, costs, and damages without exception or exemption, except...

...As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law t...

...All contracts whereby any building or premises are rented, leased, used, or occupied shall become void when such building or premises are used, in whole or in part, for the sale of intoxicating liquors contrary to law, and the lessor, on and after the sale or gift of intoxicating liquors, shall be held to be in possession of such building or premises.

...All damages recovered by a minor under sections 4399.02 to 4399.08 of the Revised Code shall be paid either to the minor, or to the minor's parent, guardian, or next friend, as the court directs.

...A suit for damages under sections 4399.02 to 4399.08 of the Revised Code shall be by a civil action in any court having jurisdiction over the action.

...(A) No person shall keep a place where beer or intoxicating liquors are sold, furnished, or given away in violation of law. The court, on conviction for a subsequent violation of this section, shall order the place where the beer or intoxicating liquor is sold, furnished, or given away to be abated as a nuisance or shall order the person so convicted to give bond payable to the state in the sum of one thousand dol...

...No person shall sell, exchange, or give away intoxicating liquor in a brothel.

...If a person is convicted of any violation of Title XLIII of the Revised Code that involves the sale of intoxicating liquors at or within twelve hundred yards of the administration or main central building of the Columbus state hospital, Dayton state hospital, Athens state hospital, or Toledo state hospital, within two miles of the place at which an agricultural fair is being held, or within one mile of a county child...

...No provision contained in Title XLIII of the Revised Code that prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors in any of the circumstances described in section 4399.11 of the Revised Code extends to or prevents the holder of an A, B, C-2, D-2, D-3, D-3a, D-4, D-4a, D-5, D-5a, D-5b, D-5e, D-5f, D-5g, D-5h, D-5i, D-5j, D-5k, D-5l, D-5m, G, or I permit issued by the division of liquor control from distributing or selling i...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no person who is the proprietor of or who conducts, manages, or is in charge of any public dance hall shall allow the use of any intoxicating liquor or the presence of intoxicated persons in the public dance hall or on the premises on which it is located. (B) The prohibition against the use of any intoxicating liquor contained in division (A) of this ...