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...This chapter may be cited as the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association act.

...tracts. To provide this protection, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, an association of member insurers, is created to pay benefits and to continue coverages, as limited in this chapter. Members of the association are subject to assessment to provide funds to carry out the purpose of this chapter.

... This chapter provides coverage, by the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, for the policies and contracts specified in division (C) of this section to all of the following persons: (1) Persons, regardless of where they reside, except for nonresident certificate holders or enrollees under group policies or contracts, who are the beneficiaries, assignees, or payees, including health care providers r...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, records created, held by, or pertaining to the guaranty association are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, are confidential, and are not subject to inspection or disclosure. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to the plan of operation required under section 3956.10 of the Revised Code, other information required to be fil...

...(A) The board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association shall consist of not less than nine nor more than eleven member insurers serving terms as established in the plan of operation. A majority of the members of the board shall be representatives of member insurers domiciled in this state. Three of the members of the board shall be representatives of the three member insurers that write...

...in division (A)(2) of this section, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association may do either of the following with respect to an impaired member insurer: (a) Guarantee, assume, reissue, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, reissued, or reinsured, any or all of the policies or contracts of the impaired insurer; (b) Provide the moneys, pledges, notes, guarantees, or other means that are p...

... carry out the powers and duties of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, the board of directors shall assess the member insurers, separately for each subaccount or account, at such time and for such amounts as the board finds necessary. Assessments shall be due not less than thirty days after prior written notice to the member insurers and shall accrue interest at ten per cent per year on and afte...

...(A)(1) The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association shall submit to the superintendent of insurance a plan of operation and any amendments to the plan necessary or suitable to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the association. The plan of operation and any amendments shall become effective upon the written approval of the superintendent, or unless the superintendent has not disap...

...equest of the board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, provide the association with a statement of the premiums in this and any other appropriate states for each member insurer; (2) When an impairment is declared and the amount of the impairment is determined, serve a demand upon the impaired insurer to make good the impairment within a reasonable time. Notice to the impaired i...

...Report to the board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association when the superintendent has taken any of the actions set forth in division (A)(1) of this section or has received a report from any other insurance commissioner indicating that any such action has been taken in another state. The report to the board of directors shall contain all significant details of the action taken or the ...

... kept of all resolutions adopted by the Ohio life and health guaranty association in carrying out its powers and duties under section 3956.08 of the Revised Code. The records shall be made public only upon the termination of a rehabilitation or liquidation proceeding involving the impaired or insolvent insurer, upon the termination of the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer, or upon the order of a court of...

...The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association is subject to examination and regulation by the superintendent of insurance. The board of directors shall submit to the superintendent each year, not later than four months after the end of the association's fiscal year, a financial report in a form approved by the superintendent and a report of its activities during the preceding fiscal year.

...The Ohio life and health guaranty association is exempt from payment of all fees and all taxes levied by this state or any of its political subdivisions.

...insurer or its agents or employees, the Ohio life and health guaranty association or its agents or employees, the board of directors or any member of the board, or the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's representatives, for any action or omission by them pursuant to the purposes and provisions of this chapter or in the performance of their powers and duties under this chapter. Immunity under this sec...

...rdict, or finding based on default, the Ohio life and health guaranty association may apply to have the judgment set aside by the same court that made the judgment and may defend against the suit on the merits.

...ear it ceases doing business. (4) The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association may require a member insurer to report any offset to the association. (B) A member insurer that is exempt from taxes described in division (A) of this section may recoup its assessments by a surcharge on its premiums in a sum reasonably calculated to recoup the assessments over a reasonable period of time, as approved by the...

...nsurance of life insurance risks of an Ohio domiciled parent or an affiliated company that is authorized to transact the business of life insurance in this state; (10) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, any other line which the superintendent, at the superintendent's sole discretion, permits. (B) A captive insurance company may purchase reinsurance coverage for any risk that a captive insu...

...thorized by Section 3 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, to adopt police regulations which, after August 31, 1939, provide for the regular inspection of elevators as provided by law.

...chnical or STEM program approved by the Ohio department of education and workforce or students participating in any eligible classes through the college credit plus program established under Chapter 3365. of the Revised Code that include a state-recognized pre-apprenticeship program that imparts the skills and knowledge needed for successful participation in a registered apprenticeship occupation course; (3) A min...

...k. (2) "Employer" means the state of Ohio, its instrumentalities, and its political subdivisions and their instrumentalities, any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons, acting in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but does not include either of the following: (a) An employer whose annual gross volume of sales made for business d...

...quired under Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution. Employees and employers shall be furnished copies of the summaries and rules by the state, on request, without charge.

...employees. (6) "Commission" means the Ohio civil rights commission created by section 4112.03 of the Revised Code. (7) "Discriminate" includes segregate or separate. (8) "Unlawful discriminatory practice" means any act prohibited by section 4112.02, 4112.021, or 4112.022 of the Revised Code. (9) "Place of public accommodation" means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land...

...m if the program is registered with the Ohio apprenticeship council pursuant to sections 4139.01 to 4139.06 of the Revised Code and is approved by the federal committee on apprenticeship of the United States department of labor. (M) Nothing in this chapter prohibiting age discrimination and nothing in division (A) of section 4112.14 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prohibit the following: (1) The designa...

...rge filed under this section. (B) The Ohio civil rights commission, as provided in this section, shall prevent any person from engaging in unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment. The commission may at any time attempt to resolve allegations of unlawful discriminatory practices relating to employment by the use of alternative dispute resolution, provided that, before instituting the formal hearing ...

...Whenever the Ohio civil rights commission has reasonable cause to believe that any person or persons are engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to a person or persons' full enjoyment of the rights granted by division (H) of section 4112.02 of the Revised Code, or that any group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted by that division and the denial raises an issue of public importance, the commis...