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...The superintendent of insurance may appoint such employees as the prompt dispatch of business requires, including skilled and competent persons to examine and report on the business and affairs of insurance companies. The superintendent may hire an administrator of financial regulation services as an employee in the unclassified civil service. The superintendent shall fix the compensation of the administrator of fin...

...sury to the credit of the department of insurance operating fund, which is hereby created. The remaining one-fourth shall be credited to the general revenue fund. Other revenues collected by the superintendent of insurance, such as registration fees for sponsored seminars or conferences and grants from private entities, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the department of insurance operating fund....

...The superintendent of insurance shall appoint a warden who shall investigate all reported violations of law relating to insurance, and perform such other duties in the administration of laws relating to insurance as the superintendent may direct. The office of the warden is hereby designated a criminal justice agency in investigating reported violations of law relating to insurance, and as such is authorized by this...

... (1) "Laws of this state relating to insurance" include but are not limited to Chapter 1751. notwithstanding section 1751.08, Chapter 1753., Title XXXIX, sections 5725.18 to 5725.25, and Chapter 5729. of the Revised Code. Sections 4717.31, 4717.33, 4717.34, 4717.35, and 4717.37 of the Revised Code are "laws of this state relating to insurance" to the extent those sections apply to insurance companies or insurance ...

...The superintendent of insurance shall adopt, amend, and rescind rules and make adjudications, necessary to discharge the superintendent's duties and exercise the superintendent's powers, including, but not limited to, the superintendent's duties and powers under Chapters 1751. and 1753. and Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the purpose of implementing amended substitute House Bill 478 of the 119th General Assembly, including rules that establish fees for any service or transaction that is required by that act. The rules shall specify each such service or transaction and the amount of the fee that is so charged. Any fee collected purs...

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish reasonable fees for any service or transaction performed by the department of insurance pursuant to section 1751.03, 3901.321, 3901.341, 3907.12, 3911.011, 3913.40, 3915.14, 3917.06, 3918.07, 3923.02, 3935.04, 3937.03, or 3953.28 of the Revised Code or any provision in sections 3913.01 to 3913.23 or ...

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that the superintendent considers necessary and advisable for the purpose of implementing the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," Pub. L. No. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1955, 42 U.S.C.A. 300gg, as amended, and any regulation adopted thereunder.

...(A) The superintendent of insurance may receive documents and information, including otherwise confidential or privileged documents and information, from local, state, federal, and international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, from local, state, and federal prosecutors, and from the national association of insurance commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries, provided that the superintendent maintains...

...tted by an insurer to the department of insurance be signed.

... in the office of the superintendent of insurance, or in the absence or disability of that officer, or when so directed by the superintendent, the deputy superintendent of insurance shall perform all the duties of the superintendent. In the absence of the superintendent and the deputy superintendent, and when so directed by the superintendent, either assistant superintendent shall perform all the duties of the superi...

...The assistant superintendents shall perform such duties of the superintendent and such other duties as the superintendent shall direct.

...The superintendent of insurance shall apply to the United States secretary of health and human services and the United States secretary of the treasury for an innovative waiver regarding health insurance coverage in this state as authorized by section 1332 of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," 42 U.S.C. 18052. The superintendent shall include in the application a request for waivers of the employer and...

...rsuance of law by the superintendent of insurance with the seal of his office affixed thereto shall be received as evidence and may be recorded in the same manner and with like effect as a deed duly acknowledged by an officer authorized by law. In all cases copies of papers in the office of the superintendent, certified by him under the seal of his office, are equal to the original as evidence.

...ny person doing or authorized to do any insurance business in this state. (B)(1) Before issuing any license to do the business of insurance in this state, the superintendent of insurance, or a person appointed by the superintendent, may examine the financial affairs of any insurer. (2) The superintendent, or any person appointed by the superintendent, may examine, as often as the superintendent or appointee con...

...neys collected by the superintendent of insurance for expenses incurred by the superintendent in conducting examinations pursuant to the Revised Code of the financial affairs of any insurance company doing business in this state, for which the insurance company examined is required to pay the costs, shall be paid to the superintendent. The superintendent shall deposit the money in the state treasury to the credit of ...

...fidential report filed by an insurer or insurance group in accordance with the requirements of sections 3901.072 to 3901.078 of the Revised Code. (2) "Insurance group" means those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code. (3) "Insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3901.32 of the Revised Code. (4) "NAIC" means the national...

...insurer domiciled in this state, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, that, as of December 31, 2015, has an annual, direct written and unaffiliated assumed premium totaling more than five billion dollars, shall submit to the superintendent a corporate governance annual disclosure that contains the information described in section 3901.074 of the Revised Code. (b) Not later than June 1, 2018, and...

...(A)(1) An insurer or insurance group shall have discretion regarding the format of its corporate governance annual disclosure. (2) The CGAD shall be prepared consistent with the rules adopted by the superintendent pursuant to section 3901.077 of the Revised Code regarding the required content of the CGAD and shall contain the material information necessary for the superintendent to gain an understanding of the insu...

...session or control of the department of insurance that are obtained by, created by, or disclosed to the superintendent or any other person under sections 3901.072 to 3901.078 of the Revised Code are recognized by this state as being proprietary and to contain trade secrets. (B) The documents, materials, or other information described in division (A) of this section shall be confidential by law and privileged and ...

...ate regulators from states in which the insurance group has domiciled insurers; (2) Provide that the recipient of information agrees in writing to maintain the confidentiality and privileged status of the CGAD -related documents, materials, or other information obtained pursuant to sections 3901.072 to 3901.078 of the Revised Code and has verified in writing the legal authority to maintain confidentiality; (3) S...

...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...

... shall furnish to the superintendent of insurance in writing all the information called for in the requisition and in the manner and form as directed in the requisition.