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...life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall, subject to acceptance by the insurer, commence on the date when the debtor becomes obligated to the creditor, or the date from which interest or finance charges accrue if later, except that, where a group policy provides coverage with respect to existing obligations, the insurance on a debtor with respect to such indebtedness shall commence on the effectiv...

...(A) All credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance sold shall be evidenced by an individual policy, or in the case of group insurance by a certificate of insurance, which individual policy or group certificate of insurance shall be delivered to the debtor. (B) Each individual policy or group certificate of credit life insurance, or credit accident and health insurance, or both shall, in addition ...

...(A) All policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, endorsements and riders providing coverage on residents of Ohio shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance. (B) The superintendent shall within thirty days after the filing of any such policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, endorsements, and riders,...

...life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall file with the superintendent of insurance its schedules of premium rates for use in connection with such insurance. Any insurer may revise such schedules from time to time, and shall file such revised schedules with the superintendent. No insurer shall issue any credit life insurance policy for which the premium rate exceeds that determined by the schedules...

...All policies of credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state only by an insurer authorized to do an insurance business in this state.

...(A) All claims shall be promptly reported to the insurer or its designated claim representative, and the insurer shall maintain adequate claim files. All claims shall be settled as soon as possible and in accordance with the terms of the insurance contract. (B) All claims shall be paid either by draft drawn upon the insurer or by check of the insurer to the order of the claimant to whom payment of the claim is due p...

...life insurance or credit accident and health insurance is required as additional security for an indebtedness, the debtor shall, upon request to the creditor, have the option of furnishing the required amount of insurance through existing policies of insurance owned or controlled by him or of procuring and furnishing the required coverage through any insurer authorized to transact an insurance business within this st...

...r licensed by the superintendent, he shall set forth the details of his findings together with an order for compliance by a specified date. Such order shall be binding on the insurer and other person authorized or licensed by the superintendent on the date specified unless sooner withdrawn by the superintendent or a stay thereof has been ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

...ted by an order of the superintendent shall be entitled to judicial review by following the procedure set forth in section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...8.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. The penalty provided in this section is in addition to any other penalty provided by law.

...assessment plan, for the purpose of mutual protection and relief of its members, and for the payment of stipulated sums of money to the families, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns of the deceased members of such company or association, as the member may direct, in the manner provided in the bylaws. The company also may receive money either by voluntary donation or contribution, or by collection through ass...

...urance issued on and after January 1, 1926, assets in excess of other liabilities, to provide for reserves of not less than the minimum reserves prescribed in such sections. The basis for minimum reserves under such sections is the American experience table of mortality and interest at four per cent annually. Contracts may provide for not more than one year preliminary term insurance by incorporating therein a claus...

...cts are issued on or after January 1, 1926, which do not contain the provisions described in this section and section 3919.02 of the Revised Code, the association issuing them shall maintain as to such contracts the reserve required by sections 3907.18 and 3907.19 of the Revised Code.

...ntracts issued on an after January 1, 1926, and on such other contracts as the association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code designates upon which a reserve at least equal to the minimum reserve prescribed in section 3919.02 of the Revised Code has been accumulated, shall be held separate for the sole use and benefit of such contracts and the insured and beneficiaries thereunder, and no other contra...

...vised Code, provides otherwise, the actual mortality experienced on all outstanding contracts shall be determined and distributed between all such contracts in proportion to the cost of insurance on the basis provided in section 3919.02 of the Revised Code, or such other mortality table approximating the experience of the association as it may provide.

... of the Revised Code, provisions for total and permanent disability benefits, accidental death benefits, annuities, and the payment of the benefits in installments. Separate contracts may also be issued paying for total or partial disability from sickness or accident, dismemberment, and accidental death benefits; provided that the association shall maintain for all such benefits any additional reserves required upon ...

...tracts issued on and after January 1, 1926, and for such other contracts designated as provided in such sections, exceed the reserves thereon by not less than five per cent of such reserves, any excess assets derived from mortality savings and investment gains and other sources may be apportioned, distributed, and used as provided by the association.

...tracts issued on and after January 1, 1926, or designated as provided in sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and in force on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year. The report shall contain a statement of the rate of earnings of the mean invested assets, the interest earnings at such rate on the segregated portion of the assets, the interest required to maintain the reserves, ...

...All fraternal benefit societies and associations, including those engaged in writing insurance covering a single hazard, and not operated or conducted for profit, and all associations, lodges, orders, or societies which do not issue insurance certificates, are exempt from sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

... cent, as provided in such sections, on all business in force on the thirty-first day of December of the year preceding the date of application to do business within this state.

...ay provide in their bylaws that there shall be not less than five nor more than fifteen trustees, whose term of office shall be not more than three years. If the term is made more than one year, the bylaws may provide for electing at the first election a part of them for one year, a part for two years, and a part for three years, and thereafter elections shall be for a term of three years. Such associations by their ...

...een given by the acting president personally or by letter mailed to each member. Such change shall not take effect until it has been submitted to and approved by the superintendent of insurance. Any such association which, while issuing policies or certificates, advertises or gives out that it is maintaining a reserve greater than that required for yearly renewable term policies shall continue to maintain such reserv...

...es therefor, and with the written approval of the superintendent of insurance, amend its articles of incorporation and its constitution and bylaws in such a manner as to permit it to transact the business of life insurance on the legal reserve or level premium plan as a mutual company without capital stock. Such company or association, upon procuring from the superintendent a certificate of authority to transact busi...

...s organization and government, and it shall make separate annual statements to the superintendent of insurance of the business transacted by it under the assessment plan, as required by section 3919.16 of the Revised Code, and of the business transacted by it under the level premium or legal reserve plan, as required by section 3907.19 of the Revised Code.

... the assessment plan, other than fraternal beneficiary associations, shall do business within this state, except those companies which, as of August 9, 1913, are authorized to do business within this state and which value their assessment policies or certificates of membership as yearly renewable term policies, according to the standard of valuation of life insurance policies prescribed by the laws of this state.