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...The superintendent of insurance shall prepare and periodically revise a brochure that clearly and concisely explains the operation of medical savings accounts authorized under sections 3924.61 to 3924.74 of the Revised Code, and that describes how an employer's or individual's use of a medical savings account may affect the employer's or individual's purchase of policies, plans, and contracts of health coverage. The ...

...ructures and the amount loaned, and the policy must be assigned to the mortgagee; (2) Bonds or notes secured by mortgages insured by the federal housing administrator or the secretary of agriculture of the United States under Title I of "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" as amended; (E) The stock of a national bank located in this state, organized under an act of congress entitled "An act to provide a national cu...

...With the approval of the superintendent of insurance, sections 3925.06 to 3925.09 and 3925.20 of the Revised Code shall not apply to a domestic insurance company that qualifies as a foreign country branch of a United States company that writes policies exclusively in countries other than the United States if those other countries have laws pertaining to insurance company investments and the foreign country...

...Except surety companies which are admitted to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, who may be required to or do in their trust capacity receive, hold, control, and disburse public or private moneys or property, and which are admitted to guarantee the performance of contracts other than insurance policies, and to execute and guarantee bonds required or permitted in all actions o...

...r in this state, for the benefit of its policyholders, securities approved by the insurance department of such state in an amount equal to one fourth of its entire capital stock. If the company is a mutual fire insurance company, it must have actual cash assets of the amount and description required of similar companies of this state, after organization, invested as required by the law of the state where the company ...

...ss, and for commencing actions upon any policy or liability issued or contracted while it transacted business in this state, and service of process upon any such agent, for such causes, is a valid service upon the company.

...Every insurance company other than a life insurance company, organized by act of congress or under the laws of another state or government, annually, at the time and in the form and manner required of similar companies organized under the laws of this state, shall file a statement of its condition and affairs in the office of the superintendent of insurance. A company organized under or incorporated by a foreign gove...

...(A) Each insurance company authorized to transact business in this state, except any life insurance company, shall maintain reserves in at least all of the following amounts: (1) An amount that equals the unearned portions of the gross premiums charged on unexpired or unterminated risks and policies; (2) An amount that is estimated to be sufficient to provide for the ultimate payment of all losses or claims, whethe...

...for the benefit and security of all its policy holders. When the superintendent of insurance of this state is satisfied by the certificate of the superintendent of insurance or other officer of the other state that the deposit has been made, he shall accept the certificate in lieu of the deposit required of the company by division (B) of section 3929.01 or section 3953.06 of the Revised Code, and the company need not...

...for the benefit and security of all the policyholders of the company, and shall not be received by him at a rate above their par value.

...When a bond, recognizance, or undertaking is required or permitted by law, with one or more sureties, its execution or the guaranteeing thereof, as sole surety, is sufficient if done by a company authorized to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, to guarantee the performance of contracts other than insurance policies, and to execute and guarantee bonds and undertakings in actio...

...rage of the insured; (2) The insured's policy number; (3) The date of the occurrence that created the claim; (4) The name and address of the injured person; (5) The date and amount of the judgment, if any, including a description of the portion of the judgment that represents economic loss, noneconomic loss and, if applicable, punitive damages; (6) In the case of a settlement, the date and amount of the settleme...

...(A) The Ohio mine subsidence insurance underwriting association is hereby created, consisting of all insurers authorized to write and engaged in writing within the state, on a direct basis, basic property insurance or any component thereof in multi-peril policies, to operate in accordance with the plan of operation adopted pursuant to section 3929.53 of the Revised Code. Every such insurer shall be a member of the as...

...ine subsidence insurance fund all valid policyholder claims resulting from subsidence.

...o administration of the fund. (C) Each policyholder of the medical liability underwriting association shall pay to the medical liability underwriting association annually a stabilization reserve fund charge. The charge shall be determined by the directors with the agreement of the board of governors of the medical liability underwriting association, subject to the approval of the superintendent. In the event that th...

...(A) The medical liability underwriting association created under section 3929.63 of the Revised Code may be dissolved, or its operations may be suspended, by rule of the superintendent of insurance adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, upon a finding by the superintendent that the circumstances described in division (A) of section 3929.63 of the Revised Code no longer exist, or if the superintendent f...

...lity underwriting association may offer policyholders the option of being liable as a co-insurer on sums paid out by way of settlement or judgment against the policyholder on any claim made under the policy. The medical liability underwriting association has sole authority to settle any claim subject to the co-insurance option without the consent of the insured. The plan of operation shall set forth the terms and con...

...ublic records. (B) With respect to any policy of insurance issued by the medical liability underwriting association, any contract executed by the medical liability underwriting association or the stabilization reserve fund, or any action taken under or related to sections 3929.62 to 3929.70 of the Revised Code, there shall be no liability on the part of the state beyond amounts paid into or earned by the medical lia...

...The board of governors of the Ohio commercial insurance joint underwriting association shall adopt a written program for decreasing the overall utilization of the association as a source of insurance. The program shall set forth actions that the board shall take to decrease such utilization, including actions intended to reduce the classes of insurance offered by the association, to reduce the number of policies issu...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (1) Establish standards and procedures for the fair and equitable cessation of operations for any class of commercial insurance when such insurance is available in the normal market; (2) Establish standards and procedures for the fair and equitable cessation of operations of the Ohio commer...

... effected; (D) A copy of each form of policy, contract, or agreement under or by which such insurance is to be effected; (E) A copy of the form of power of attorney under which such insurance is to be effected; (F) The fact that applications have been made for indemnity upon at least seventy-five separate risks, aggregating not less than one and one-half million dollars, represented by executed contracts or bon...

...Sections 3935.01 to 3935.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to all kinds of insurance on risks located in this state which stock, mutual, reciprocal fire and marine insurers, and title insurance companies, as defined in division (C) of section 3953.01 of the Revised Code, except mutual protective associations organized under section 3939.01 of the Revised Code, may write. Sections 3935.01 to 3935.17, inclusive...

...llowed or returned by insurers to their policyholders, members, or subscribers. Co-operation among rating bureaus, or among rating bureaus and insurers, in rate making or in other matters covered by sections 3935.01 to 3935.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is authorized, provided the filings resulting from such co-operation are subject to all such sections which are applicable to filings generally. The superinte...

... private passenger automobile insurance policy based on the insured's involvement in a motor vehicle accident with an uninsured or underinsured motorist, when both of the following apply: (A) The insured's action is not a proximate cause of any loss, damage, injury, or death arising out of the accident; (B) The insured has not been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleaded no contest to, a violation of law as a r...

... nonrenewal of any automobile insurance policy, or in connection with advising an insured or his attorney of the reasons for refusal to write any such insurance, for a cancellation or nonrenewal, or in connection with any administrative or judicial proceeding arising out of or related to such cancellation or nonrenewal.