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...No person, firm, or corporation engaged in selling real or personal property, and no trustee, director, officer, agent, or other employee of any such person, firm, or corporation, shall require, as a condition precedent to the sale of such property, that the person, firm, or corporation purchasing the property negotiate any policy of insurance or renewal thereof covering the property through a particular insuranc...

...No corporation and no officer, agent, solicitor, or other person shall violate sections 3933.01 to 3933.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Fines levied and collected for the violation of this section shall be paid to the county treasurer for the use of the schools as provided in sections 3315.31 and 3315.32 of the Revised Code.

...f a detailed account of such costs. The officers, manager, agents, and employees of such rating organization, advisory organization, group, association, or other organization may be examined at any time under oath and shall exhibit all books, records, accounts, documents, or agreements governing its method of operation. In lieu of any such examination the superintendent may accept the report of an examination made by...

...t of insurance, and may elect the first officers and directors who shall continue in office until the first annual meeting of the members. The number of directors shall not be less than five nor more than twenty-one. The number of directors may be increased or diminished between the same limits by amendment of the code of regulations or bylaws pursuant to section 3941.09 of the Revised Code, if the number of director...

...If the directors by authority of statute make an assessment or call on the members for money, or vote that there exists a necessity for such assessment or call, they or any person interested in the company as an officer, policyholder, or creditor may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction by a petition in the nature of a bill in equity, praying for the court to examine such assessment or call, the necessity there...

...No part of the securities deposited in compliance with section 3941.30 of the Revised Code shall be surrendered by the superintendent of insurance to the depositing company until liability has terminated on all policies for whose benefit the securities have been deposited. When liability on all such policies has terminated, the depositing company may apply to the superintendent for the surrender of the deposited secu...

...Attached to the petition for approval filed with the superintendent shall be a certificate of the president or secretary of each constituent company setting forth all fees, commissions, or other compensation or valuable consideration paid or to be paid to any person in connection with the securing or promoting of any such merger or consolidation. Except as fully stated in said certificate or in the agreement, no dire...

...irm, association, or partnership or the officers and directors of the corporation, specified in the certificate of authority to act as a public insurance adjuster. The superintendent shall not issue any certificate of authority to any applicant who is convicted of a disqualifying offense as determined under section 9.79 of the Revised Code, or who, within three years preceding the date of filing such application, h...

...ration, such of its employees, members, officers, or directors, who are to be individually authorized to act under its certificate of authority, to submit to a written examination. Examinations shall be held in such place in this state and at such time as the superintendent may designate.

...Title insurance agent" does not include officers and salaried employees of any title insurance company authorized to do a title insurance business within this state. (I) "Single insurance risk" means the insured amount of any policy or contract of title insurance issued by a title insurance company. (J) "Foreign title insurance company" means a title insurance company organized under the laws of any state or terr...

...(A) A title insurance company organized and incorporated under the laws of this state may merge, be merged by, or consolidated with, one or more title insurance companies whether or not so incorporated, by complying with Chapter 1701. of the Revised Code, but subject to the following: (1) No such merger or consolidation shall be effectuated unless in advance thereof, the plan and agreement therefor have been filed w...

...(A) A title insurance company organized and incorporated under the laws of this state may issue stock in exchange for all or any part of the assets or stock of a domestic or foreign title insurance company if, in advance thereof, a plan or agreement of acquisition has been filed with the superintendent of insurance. The superintendent shall examine the terms and conditions of such plan or agreement of acquisition, an...

...on, and whether the persons insured are officers, managers, employees, or other persons, premiums in excess of five million dollars with respect to these policies or contracts, regardless of the number of policies or contracts held by the owner. (L) "Resident" means any person who resides in this state at the time a member insurer is determined to be an impaired or insolvent insurer and to whom a contractual oblig...

...(A) Upon notice and hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance may take any of the actions enumerated in division (C) of this section if the superintendent finds that a licensee has done any of the following: (1) Violated any provision of this chapter, any rule adopted by the superintendent, or any consent agreement or order of the superintendent; (2) Provided inc...

...(A) No person shall fail to comply with sections 3961.01 to 3961.09 of the Revised Code. If the superintendent of insurance determines that any person has violated sections 3961.01 to 3961.07 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may take one or more of the following actions: (1) Assess a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per violation if the person knew or should have known of...

...nce, and business qualifications of the officers and directors of the captive insurance company; (3) The amount of liquidity and assets of the captive insurance company relative to the risks to be assumed; (4) The adequacy of the expertise, experience, and character of the person or persons who will manage the captive insurance company; (5) The overall soundness of the plan of operation; (6) The adequacy ...

...(A) As used in sections 3964.17 to 3964.1710 of the Revised Code: (1) "Protected cell" means an incorporated cell that is organized pursuant to Chapter 1701., 1702., 1705., or 1706. of the Revised Code and that has a separate legal identity from the protected cell captive insurance company of which it is a part. (2) "Protected cell captive insurance company" means a captive insurance company that meets all of the...

...If a protected cell captive insurance company is liable for any penalty, under this chapter or otherwise, due to an act or the failure to act of a protected cell or an officer or director of a protected cell, then both of the following apply: (A) The penalty shall only be met by the protected cell captive insurance company from the cell assets of the protected cell responsible. (B) The penalty shall not be e...

...No medical examiner for a life insurance company or for an applicant for insurance therein shall knowingly make a false statement or report to such company or to an officer thereof concerning the health or physical condition of an applicant for insurance, or other matter or thing affecting the granting of such insurance.

...No trustee, officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, company, or association organized to transact the business of life or accident or life and accident insurance on the assessment plan shall knowingly insure a person, or permit him to be insured without that person's knowledge or consent, or insure a fictitious person, a person over sixty-five or under fifteen years of age, or a sickly or infirm person. No ph...

...No life insurance company doing business in this state, or an officer, agent, solicitor, or representative thereof, shall pay, allow, or give, or offer to pay, allow, or give, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to insurance, a rebate of the premium payable on a policy, or a special favor or advantage in the dividends or other benefits to accrue thereon, or a paid employment or contract for services of any kind,...

...No person for himself or as an officer, director, agent, solicitor, or representative of any insurance company, except fire insurance companies or associations or fraternal benefit societies, doing business in this state, shall issue, circulate, or cause or permit to be issued or circulated any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement of any sort misrepresenting the terms of the policy issued or to be issued by...

...No domestic life insurance company making a disbursement of one hundred dollars or more shall fail to have it evidenced by a voucher signed by or on behalf of the person, firm, or corporation receiving the money and correctly describing the consideration thereof; if such expenditure is for both services and disbursements, such company shall not fail to set forth in such voucher, the service rendered and an itemized s...

...No officer, director, or stockholder of a company organized under the laws of this state to do the business of life, accident, or health insurance, either on the stock, mutual, stipulated premiums, assessment, or fraternal plan, shall violate or consent to a violation of any law governing or forbidding the reinsurance of the risks, or any part thereof, or the consolidation of such company with any other company or as...

...No officer or agent of a corporation, company, or association organized under the laws of any other state of the United States to transact the business of life or accident insurance or life and accident insurance on the assessment plan, shall violate or fail to comply with any law relating to such corporation, company, or association.