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...In case of the death of any employee by reason of the wrongful or negligent acts of the employee's employer, or negligence or wrongful acts for which said employer is liable, the personal representative of the deceased employee has all the rights and remedies that the employee would have had under section 3929.03 of the Revised Code had death not resulted.

...Whenever a loss or damage occurs on account of a casualty covered by a contract of insurance made between an insurance company and any person, firm, or corporation, by which contract such person, firm, or corporation is insured against loss or damage on account of the bodily injury or death by accident of any person for which loss or damage such person, firm, or corporation is responsible, the liability of the insura...

...(A)(1) If a court in a civil action enters a final judgment that awards damages to a plaintiff for injury, death, or loss to the person or property of the plaintiff or another person for whom the plaintiff is a legal representative and if, at the time that the cause of action accrued against the judgment debtor, the judgment debtor was insured against liability for that injury, death, or loss, the plaintiff or the pl...

...An insurance company that is required by division (B) of section 3929.01 or section 3953.06 of the Revised Code to deposit fifty thousand dollars of bonds with the superintendent of insurance may, in lieu of that deposit, make a deposit of one hundred thousand dollars, in securities in which the company may invest its assets by the laws of the state in which it is incorporated, with the superintendent of insurance or...

...When any insurance company organized under the laws of this state is required by the retaliatory or other laws of any other state or district to make a deposit with the superintendent of insurance of this state, for the benefit of its policyholders, as a condition to the right of such company to transact business in such other state or district, the superintendent shall receive such deposit in the amount that is requ...

...Any deposit under sections 3929.07 and 3929.08 of the Revised Code shall be made and maintained in securities worth the amount of the required deposit; such securities may be exchanged from time to time for other securities of the prescribed character and worth the amount of the required deposit. So long as the company continues solvent, it shall receive the interest on the deposited securities. Any deposit made und...

...No company organized under the laws of this state to transact the business of guaranteeing the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, who are required to, or in their trust capacity do, receive, hold, control, or disburse public or private property, and to transact the business of guaranteeing the performance of contracts other than insurance policies, or of executing or guaranteeing bonds or ...

...No guaranty company mentioned in section 3929.10 of the Revised Code organized under the laws of another state, territory, district, or country shall be licensed to transact such business in this state unless at least two hundred thousand dollars of its assets are invested in the securities permitted by sections 3925.05 to 3925.08 of the Revised Code, or in securities permitted by the laws of the state, district, or ...

...A company which executes a bond as surety under sections 3929.10 and 3929.11 of the Revised Code shall, in any proceeding to enforce the liability which it has assumed to incur, be estopped to deny its corporate power to execute such instrument or assume such liability.

...When a bond, recognizance, or undertaking is required or permitted by law, with one or more sureties, its execution or the guaranteeing thereof, as sole surety, is sufficient if done by a company authorized to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, to guarantee the performance of contracts other than insurance policies, and to execute and guarantee bonds and undertakings in actio...

...(A) Any domestic or foreign insurance company that is authorized to transact surety business pursuant to division (A)(19) or (20) of section 3929.01 of the Revised Code, may, in any year, become surety in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars with respect to each of any guaranteed arrest bond certificates issued in that year by an automobile club or association by filing with the superintendent of insurance an ...

...A judge, court, or officer, whose duty it is to pass upon the account of an assignee, trustee, receiver, guardian, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, required by law to give bond, whenever such fiduciary has given bond with a surety company as surety thereon in the settlement of his account as such fiduciary, shall allow a reasonable sum to be paid to such a company authorized under the laws of this state t...

...Sections 3929.14 and 3929.15 of the Revised Code authorize such a guaranty company as is described therein to become surety upon the bond required by law of any state officer, except the superintendent of insurance, and of any county, township, or municipal officer. Such company may be accepted by the officers required to approve such bond, in lieu of the sureties required by law.

...The premium of any licensed surety company on the bond of any public officer, deputy, or employee shall be allowed and paid by the state, county, township, municipal corporation, or other subdivision, or board of education, of which such person giving the bond is such officer, deputy, or employee.

...Any building insured by a mutual company must be pledged to such company, together with the right and title of the insured in the land upon which it is situated, to the amount of the premium note or contingent liability, and the company shall have a lien on such building and land to the amount of such note or liability. Such lien shall not take effect until the company files, with the county recorder of the cou...

...A fire insurance company doing business under the laws of this state, which issues policies of insurance covering property located in this state, and on such policies receives from the persons insured either cash payments of premium, or notes subject to assessment for payment of losses, or notes for the installments of premium, shall insert in every such policy issued an obligation to cancel it, upon the written requ...

...When a policy issued on the cash plan is canceled, in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy may retain customary short rates, as established and charged by companies doing a cash business, for the time the policy has been in force, and return to the insured the unearned premium on the policy for the unexpired time.

...When a policy issued on the mutual plan is canceled in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy must surrender to the insured the note received from him for premium or payment of losses. Such policy shall first be sent to the secretary or agent of the company, and, within sixty days after receipt thereof for cancellation, the premium note shall be returned. The insured shal...

...When a policy issued on the installment plan is canceled, in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy may collect of the insured the customary short rates for the time the policy has been in force, said rates to be computed on the full term of insurance mentioned in the policy as charged by such company. On receipt of such short rates, it must return all installment notes ...

...When it comes to the knowledge of the superintendent of insurance, or an officer having charge of the division of insurance, that any one of sections 3929.19 to 3929.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been violated, he shall at once make a thorough investigation in regard to it, and on sufficient proof of such violation, shall revoke the certificate of authority of the company guilty of such violation.

...A person, company, or association insuring any building or structure against loss or damage by fire or lightning shall have such building or structure examined by his or its agent, and a full description thereof made, and its insurable value fixed, by such agent. In the absence of any change increasing the risk without the consent of the insurers, and in the absence of intentional fraud on the part of the insured, in...

...When there are two or more insurance policies upon the same property, each policy shall contribute to the payment of the whole or of the partial loss in proportion to the amount of insurance mentioned in each policy. In no case shall the insurer be required to pay more than the amount mentioned in its policy.

...A person who solicits insurance and procures the application therefor shall be considered as the agent of the party, company, or association thereafter issuing a policy upon such application or a renewal thereof, despite any contrary provisions in the application or policy.

...Policies or contracts of insurance made or entered into by a company may be made either with or without its seal. They shall be subscribed by the president of said company, or such other officer as the directors designate for that purpose, and shall be attested by the secretary. When such policies or contracts are subscribed and attested, they shall be obligatory on the company.

...No fire insurance company organized under the laws of this state, or admitted to do business in this state, shall include in a statement of assets in any public advertisement, card, or circular, any item of value of a class or character not admitted by the superintendent of insurance in the annual report of such company. Every such advertisement, card, or circular, containing such a statement of assets of said compan...