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...(A) No delinquency proceeding shall be commenced under this chapter by anyone other than the superintendent of insurance of this state. No court has jurisdiction to entertain, hear, or determine any delinquency proceeding commenced by any other person. (B) No court of this state has jurisdiction to entertain, hear, or determine any complaint praying for the dissolution, liquidation, rehabilitation, sequestration, co...

...(A) Any officer, manager, director, trustee, owner, employee, or agent of any insurer, or any other persons with authority over or in charge of any segment of the insurer's affairs, shall cooperate with the superintendent of insurance in any proceeding under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code or any investigation preliminary to the proceeding. The term "person" as used in this section includes, but is no...

...(A) In any proceeding under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance and his deputies are responsible on their official bonds for the faithful performance of their duties. If the court considers it desirable for the protection of the assets, it may at any time require an additional bond from the superintendent or his deputies, and such bonds shall be paid for out of the assets...

...of the court enjoin the insurer and its officers, managers, agents, and employees from disposition of its property and from transaction of its business except with the written consent of the superintendent. (C) The court shall specify in the order what its duration shall be, which shall be such time as the court considers necessary for the superintendent to ascertain the condition of the insurer. On motion of either...

...(A) The liquidator may do any of the following: (1) Appoint one or more special deputies to act for him under sections 3903.01 to 3903.59 of the Revised Code, and determine the deputies' reasonable compensation. Special deputies have all the powers of the liquidator granted by this section. Special deputies shall serve at the pleasure of the liquidator. (2) Employ employees and agents, actuaries, accountants, appra...

...(A) Unless the court otherwise directs, the liquidator shall give or cause to be given notice of the liquidation order as soon as possible to all of the following: (1) By first class mail and either by telegram or telephone to the superintendent of insurance or equivalent officer of each jurisdiction in which the insurer is doing business; (2) By first class mail to any guaranty association or foreign guaranty asso...

...ommissioners of insurance or equivalent officers of, each of the states by certified mail as provided in Civil Rule 4.1(E) at least thirty days prior to submission of the application to the court. Action on the application may be taken by the court provided the above required notice has been given and provided further that the liquidator's proposal complies with divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section.

...yment contracts by directors, principal officers, or persons in fact performing similar functions or having similar powers are limited to payment for services rendered prior to the issuance of any order of rehabilitation or liquidation under section 3903.13 or 3903.18 of the Revised Code.

...iling of the complaint for liquidation. Officers and directors shall not be entitled to the benefit of this priority. Such priority shall be in lieu of any other similar priority that may be authorized by law as to wages or compensation of employees. (E) Class 5. Claims of general creditors. (F) Class 6. Claims of any state or local government. Claims, including those of any state or local governmental body for a...

...Upon the filing of the petition authorized by section 3903.74 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance, or other officer, shall publish for six consecutive weeks in three papers of general circulation within the state, one of which is published at the seat of government, a notice containing a succinct statement of the object and prayer of the petition in such action, and the time within which persons clai...

...(A) As used in this section: (1)(a) "Applicant" means a natural person applying for either of the following: (i) A resident license as an insurance agent or surety bail bond agent; (ii) An additional line of authority under an existing resident insurance agent license if a criminal records check has not been obtained within the last twelve months for insurance license purposes. (b) "Applicant" includes a natu...

...(A) No person shall offer or sell travel insurance except as provided in sections 3905.064 to 3905.0611 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the superintendent of insurance may issue to an individual or business entity a limited lines travel insurance agent license that authorizes the holder of the license to sell, solicit, or negotiate travel insurance through a licensed insurer if ...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a travel retailer may offer and sell travel insurance under a limited lines travel insurance agent that is a business entity if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The limited lines travel insurance agent or travel retailer provides all of the following information to purchasers of travel insurance at the time of sale or in the fulfillment materials provided ...

...(A) In the absence of actual malice, an insurer, the authorized representative of an insurer, an insurance agent, the superintendent of insurance, or any organization of which the superintendent is a member, which organization compiles the information provided pursuant to section 3905.21 of the Revised Code and makes it available to other insurance commissioners or to regulatory or law enforcement agencies, is immune...

...ters and where the insured's high-level officers direct, control, and coordinate the business activities of the insured. (B) The superintendent of insurance may issue a surplus lines broker's license to any natural person who is a resident of this or any other state or to a business entity that is organized under the laws of this or any other state. To be eligible for a resident surplus lines broker's license, a per...

...(A) Every insured association, company, corporation, or other person that enters, directly or indirectly, into any independent procurement or direct placement agreement with any insurance company, association, individual, firm, underwriter, or Lloyd's, not authorized to do business in this state, whereby the insured shall procure, continue, or renew contracts of insurance with such unauthorized insurance compan...

...(A) If the superintendent of insurance, after a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, finds a violation of section 3905.76 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may order any of the following: (1) For each separate violation committed by an insurer, managing general agent, or other person, a civil penalty in an amount of not more than one thousand dollars; (2) For a violation comm...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Reinsurance intermediary-broker" means a person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, that solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of such insurer. (2)(a) "Reinsurance intermediary-manager" means a person that has authority to bind or that m...

...(A)(1) An individual who applies for a license as a surety bail bond agent shall submit an application for the license in a manner prescribed by the superintendent of insurance. The application shall be accompanied by a one-hundred-fifty-dollar fee and a statement that gives the applicant's name, age, residence, present occupation, occupation for the five years next preceding the date of the application, and such oth...

...A surety bail bond agent or insurer shall not do any of the following: (A) Suggest or advise the employment of, or name for employment, any particular attorney to represent its principal; (B) Solicit business in, or on the property or grounds of, a detention facility, as defined in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code, or in, or on the property or grounds of, any court. For purposes of this division, "solicit"...

...utation, and financial standing of the officers of the entity; (2) The character, reputation, and financial condition of the entity; (3) The adequacy of the expertise, experience, character, and reputation of the person or persons who will manage the investments on behalf of the entity; (4) The quality of the enterprise risk management program implemented by the entity to identify, assess, monitor, manage, a...

...cial statement value. However, loans to officers or directors or their immediate families shall not be counted toward the satisfaction of the minimum asset requirement. (E) An investment held as an admitted asset by an insurer on the effective date of this section that qualified under the applicable insurance investment law of this state shall remain qualified as an admitted asset under this chapter. (F) No...

..., the manner of electing them and other officers, the time of such election, the manner of filling vacancies, the amount of capital to be employed, and such other particulars as are necessary to explain and make manifest the objects and purposes of the company, and the manner in which it is to be conducted. The number of directors or trustees shall be not less than five nor more than twenty-one. The number of direc...

...ling of policies, and evidence that the officers of the company are experienced in insurance company management, the superintendent shall issue a certificate of authority conditioned upon the company obtaining, before commencing the business of insurance, capital and surplus in the aggregate amount of not less than two million five hundred thousand dollars which aggregate shall include paid-in capital of not less tha...

...this state, against any of its members, officers, policyholders, or stockholders, for any cause relating to its business; and actions may be prosecuted and maintained by any member, stockholder, or policyholder, or the heirs or legal representative of any of these, against the company for losses which accrue on any risk, if payment is withheld more than two months after the losses become due.