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...The superintendent shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as are reasonably necessary to implement sections 3901.072 to 3901.078 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If the superintendent finds, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that an insurer has failed to file a corporate governance annual disclosure as required by division (A) of section 3901.073 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall assess a civil penalty against the insurer. (1) The amount of the civil penalty imposed by division (A) of...

...The superintendent of insurance may make written requisitions upon the officers or directors of any national bank, state bank, or state bank and trust company of this state, and upon any clearing corporation, direct participant, or member bank, as defined in section 3901.51 of the Revised Code, domiciled or doing business in this state, for information as he requires relating to the financial transactions of any of t...

...Any officer or director of any national bank, state bank, or state bank and trust company of this state, and any clearing corporation, direct participant, or member bank, as defined in section 3901.51 of the Revised Code, domiciled or doing business in this state, upon the receipt of the requisition authorized by section 3901.08 of the Revised Code, or within five days after the receipt of the requisition, shall furn...

...If it appears to the superintendent of insurance upon satisfactory evidence that the assets of an insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, after deducting therefrom all liabilities including reinsurance, reserve, or unearned premium fund, computed according to the laws of this state, are reduced below the capital required by law for a stock company or the surplus required for any other company, he s...

...Any domestic insurer and any foreign or alien insurer authorized to do business in this state may retain, invest in, or acquire the whole or any part of the capital stock of any other insurer, or have a common management with any other insurer, provided such retention, investment, acquisition, or common management is not inconsistent with any other law relating to the investment of the funds of domestic insurers, and...

...Any person otherwise qualified may be a director of two or more insurers which are competitors or which have a common management, but no such interlocking directorate shall be used as a means of substantially lessening competition generally in the business of insurance or of creating a monopoly therein.

...Whenever the superintendent of insurance has reason to believe that there is a violation of section 3901.11 or 3901.12 of the Revised Code, he shall serve upon the insurers and directors a notice of a hearing before the superintendent to be held not less than thirty days after the service of such notice, and requiring such insurers and directors to show cause why an order should not be made by the superintendent dir...

...The superintendent of insurance shall preserve a full record of his proceedings, including a concise statement of the condition of each insurance company or association authorized to transact business in this state. Each year the superintendent shall report their general conduct and condition, including the information contained in the statement required of them, arranged in tabular form in two separate reports, one...

...The laws relating to the superintendent of insurance apply to all persons, companies, and associations, whether incorporated or not, engaged in the business of insurance.

...Any association, company, or corporation, including a health insuring corporation, which violates any law relating to the superintendent of insurance, any provision of Chapter 1751. or 1753. of the Revised Code, or any insurance law of this state, for the violation of which no forfeiture or penalty is elsewhere provided in the Revised Code, shall forfeit and pay not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand d...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Captive insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3905.36 of the Revised Code. (2) "Insurer" includes, but is not limited to, any person that is an affiliate of or affiliated with the insurer, as defined in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code, and any person that is a subsidiary of the insurer as defined in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code. (3) "Laws of this state relat...

...(A) Before any unauthorized foreign or alien insurer may enter an appearance in any court action, suit, or proceeding or in any administrative proceeding before the superintendent of insurance, such unauthorized insurer shall either: (1) Deposit with the clerk of the court in which such action, suit, or proceeding is pending or with the superintendent if such proceeding is before him, cash or securities or file with...

...As used in sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, fraternal benefit society, title guarantee and trust company, health insuring corporation, and any other legal entity. (B) "Residents" includes any individual, partnership, or corporation. (C) "Maternity benefits" means those benefits calculated t...

...No person shall engage in this state in any trade practice which is defined in sections 3901.19 to 3901.23 of the Revised Code as, or determined pursuant to those sections to be, an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. This section applies to any person, as defined in section 3901.19 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the person is licensed or required to be licensed by the super...

...The following are hereby defined as unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance: (A) Making, issuing, circulating, or causing or permitting to be made, issued, or circulated, or preparing with intent to so use, any estimate, illustration, circular, or statement misrepresenting the terms of any policy issued or to be issued or the benefits or advantages promised thereby or the dividends or s...