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...(A) For purposes of sections 3903.81 to 3903.93 of the Revised Code, a "mandatory control level event" is any of the following events: (1) The filing of an RBC report by an insurer that indicates that the insurer's total adjusted capital is less than its mandatory control level RBC; (2) The notification by the superintendent of insurance to an insurer of an adjustment to the insurer's RBC report, which adjusted RBC...

...(A) An insurer has the right to a hearing upon receiving any of the following from the superintendent of insurance: (1) An adjusted RBC report; (2) Notification that the insurer's RBC plan or revised RBC plan is unsatisfactory and a statement that the notification constitutes a regulatory action level event for the insurer; (3) Notification that the superintendent has determined that the insurer has failed to adhe...

..., report, information, or order and has authority to do so; (3) Disclose plans, reports, information, and orders that are the subject of this section in the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought by or on behalf of the superintendent or the state, resulting from the exercise of the superintendent's official duties. (D) Notwithstanding divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section, the superintendent ma...

...Unless otherwise provided, all notices sent to an insurer by the superintendent of insurance that may result in regulatory action under sections 3903.81 to 3903.93 of the Revised Code shall be effective upon dispatch if transmitted by registered or certified mail. Any other notice transmitted shall be effective upon the insurer's receipt of the notice.

...lan filed with the insurance regulatory authority of any other state. (C) The superintendent may require a foreign insurer to file an RBC plan with the superintendent in the case of a company action level event, regulatory action level event, or authorized control level event involving the foreign insurer, if the insurance regulatory authority of the state of domicile of the foreign insurer fails to require the fore...

...There shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action shall arise against, the superintendent of insurance, or the department of insurance, its employees, or its agents, for any action taken in their performance of the powers and duties under sections 3903.81 to 3903.93 of the Revised Code.

...The superintendent may exempt any domestic property and casualty insurer from the application of sections 3903.81 to 3903.93 of the Revised Code, if the insurer meets all of the following requirements: (A) The insurer writes direct business only in this state; (B) The insurer writes direct annual premiums of three million dollars or less; (C) The insurer assumes no reinsurance in excess of five per cent of direct ...

...The superintendent may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as are reasonably necessary for the implementation and operation of sections 3903.81 to 3903.93 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates division (B) or (C) of section 3903.06 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

...t has not been granted a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance to transact the business of life, health, or disability insurance in this state.

...(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...

...No insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization shall use or authorize the use of pretext interviews to obtain information in connection with an insurance transaction. However, a pretext interview may be undertaken to obtain information from a person or institution that does not have a generally or statutorily recognized privileged relationship with the person about whom the information relates for...

...(A) An insurance institution or agent shall provide a notice of information practices to all applicants or policyholders in connection with insurance transactions as provided below: (1) In the case of an application for insurance, a notice shall be provided no later than one of the following times: (a) At the time of the delivery of the insurance policy or certificate when personal information is collected only fro...

...An insurance institution or agent shall clearly specify those questions designed to obtain information solely for marketing or research purposes from an individual in connection with an insurance transaction.

...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) If any individual, after proper identification, submits a written request to an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization for access to recorded personal information about the individual that is reasonably described by the individual and reasonably locatable and retrievable by the insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization, the insurance institution, agent, or insurance ...

...(A) Within thirty business days from the date of receipt of a written request from an individual to correct, amend, or delete any recorded personal information about the individual within its possession, an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization shall do one of the following: (1) Correct, amend, or delete the portion of the recorded personal information in dispute; (2) Notify the individual...

...(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 ...

...No insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization may seek information in connection with an insurance transaction concerning any previous adverse underwriting decision experienced by an individual, unless such inquiry also requests the reasons for any previous adverse underwriting decision.

...No insurance institution or agent may base an adverse underwriting decision in whole or in part on either of the following: (A) On the fact of a previous adverse underwriting decision. However, an insurance institution or agent may base an adverse underwriting decision on further information obtained from an insurance institution or agent responsible for a previous adverse underwriting decision. (B) On personal inf...

...ision. (E) To an insurance regulatory authority; (F) To a law enforcement or other governmental authority to protect the interests of the insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization in preventing or prosecuting the perpetration of fraud upon it; or if the insurance institution, agent or insurance support organization reasonably believes that illegal activities have been conducted by the indivi...

...(A) No person shall knowingly obtain information under false pretenses about an individual from an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may examine and investigate into the affairs of every insurance institution or agent doing business in this state to determine whether the insurance institution or agent has been or is engaged in any conduct in violation of sections 3904.01 to 3904.22 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent may examine and investigate into the affairs of every insurance support organization ac...

...(A) Whenever the superintendent of insurance has reason to believe that an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization has been or is engaged in conduct in this state that violates sections 3904.01 to 3904.22 of the Revised Code, or if the superintendent believes that an insurance support organization has been or is engaged in conduct outside this state that has an effect on a person residing in t...