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...ially the same hazard or expectation of life. (B) A fee may not be charged for taking or submitting an initial application for coverage with any one insurer or different programs with the same insurer, or processing a change to an existing policy, a cancellation, a claim, or a renewal, in connection with any of the following personal lines policies: (1) Private passenger automobile; (2) Homeowners, including cover...

...(A)(1) Where an insurance agent or an affiliate of an insurance agent receives any compensation from a public entity related to the placement of insurance, or is entitled to receive such compensation from a public entity even if the agent or affiliate waives receipt or collection of that compensation, neither that agent nor the affiliate shall accept or receive any compensation from an insurer or other third party re...

...dited state" means a state in which the insurance department or regulatory agency has qualified as meeting the minimum financial regulatory standards promulgated and established from time to time by the national association of insurance commissioners. (B) "Captive insurer" means an insurer owned by another organization and whose exclusive purpose is to insure risks of the parent organization and affiliated companies...

...(A) Sections 3905.61 to 3905.65 of the Revised Code apply to insurers either domiciled in this state or in a state that is not an accredited state and does not have in effect a substantially similar law. (B) Sections 3901.32 to 3901.37 of the Revised Code, to the extent they are not superseded by sections 3905.61 to 3905.65 of the Revised Code, apply to all persons within holding company systems that are subject to ...

...le business" includes the same lines of insurance, same kinds of insurance, same kinds of risks, similar policy limits, and similar quality of business. (h) The rates and terms of the producer's commissions, charges, or other fees and the purposes for the charges or fees. The rates of the commissions, charges, or other fees shall not be greater than those applicable to comparable business placed with the insurer by ...

...ucer, prior to the effective date of an insurance policy, shall deliver a written notice to the prospective insured that fully and completely discloses the controlling relationship between the producer and the controlled insurer. If the business is placed through a subproducer that is not in control of the insurer, the subproducer shall provide to the producer a signed statement that the subproducer is aware of the c...

...(A)(1) If the superintendent of insurance believes that a controlling producer or any other person has not materially complied with sections 3905.61 to 3905.65 of the Revised Code, or with any rule or order adopted or issued thereunder, the superintendent may, pursuant to a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, order the controlling producer to cease placing business with the controll...

...e. (C) "Laws of this state relating to insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3901.04 of the Revised Code. (D)(1) "Managing general agent" means any person that does all of the following: (a) Manages all or part of the insurance business of an insurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, or negotiates and binds ceding reinsurance contracts on behalf of an ins...

...on shall apply to the superintendent of insurance for a license. Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, the application shall be in writing on a form provided by the superintendent. The application shall be kept on file by the superintendent and shall include all of the following: (1) The name and principal business address of the applicant; (2) If the applicant is an individual, the applic...

... to its business. The superintendent of insurance shall have access to and the right to copy, in a form usable to the superintendent, all books, bank accounts, records, contracts, and other documents, including the contract required by division (A) of this section, of the managing general agent. (F) The managing general agent shall not assign the contract in whole or part. (G) The contract shall contain appropriate...

...orm acceptable to the superintendent of insurance, an independent financial examination of each managing general agent with which it has done business. (B) If a managing general agent establishes loss reserves, the insurer annually shall obtain the opinion of an actuary attesting to the adequacy of loss reserves established for losses incurred and outstanding on business produced by the managing general agent. This ...

...(A) The acts of a managing general agent are deemed to be the acts of the insurer on whose behalf it is acting. (B) A managing general agent may be examined pursuant to section 3901.07 of the Revised Code as if it were the insurer. The managing general agent shall pay the expenses incurred in the conduct of the examination in accordance with section 3901.07 of the Revised Code.

...No managing general agent, insurer, or other person shall violate, or fail to comply with, any provision of section 3905.72, 3905.73, 3905.74, or 3905.75 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If the superintendent of insurance, after a hearing conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, finds a violation of section 3905.76 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may order any of the following: (1) For each separate violation committed by an insurer, managing general agent, or other person, a civil penalty in an amount of not more than one thousand dollars; (2) For a violation comm...

...Nothing in sections 3905.71 to 3905.79 of the Revised Code is intended, in any manner, to limit or restrict the rights of policyholders and claimants of any insurer on whose behalf a managing general agent is acting, or of auditors, accountants, examiners, or other persons that conduct examinations of insurers.

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code necessary to implement sections 3905.71 to 3905.79 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Reinsurance intermediary-broker" means a person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, that solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of such insurer. (2)(a) "Reinsurance intermediary-manager" means a person that has authority to bind or that m...

..." means any domestic, foreign, or alien insurance company that has been issued a certificate of authority by the superintendent of insurance to transact surety business in this state. (B) "Managing general agent" means any person that is appointed or employed by an insurer to supervise or otherwise manage the bail bond business written in this state by surety bail bond agents appointed by the insurer. (C) "Surety" ...

...No person shall act in the capacity of a surety bail bond agent, or perform any of the functions, duties, or powers prescribed for surety bail bond agents under sections 3905.83 to 3905.95 of the Revised Code, unless that person is qualified, licensed, and appointed as provided in those sections.

...The following persons or classes of persons shall not act as surety bail bond agents or employees of a surety bail bond agent or bail bond business and shall not directly or indirectly receive any benefits from the execution of a bail bond, except as a principal: (A) Jailers or other persons employed in a detention facility, as defined in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code; (B) Prisoners incarcerated in any ...

...ner prescribed by the superintendent of insurance. The application shall be accompanied by a one-hundred-fifty-dollar fee and a statement that gives the applicant's name, age, residence, present occupation, occupation for the five years next preceding the date of the application, and such other information as the superintendent may require. (2) An applicant for an individual resident license shall also submit to a ...

...A surety bail bond agent qualified, licensed, and appointed in accordance with sections 3905.83 to 3905.95 of the Revised Code shall not be required to pay any licensing fee imposed by a political subdivision of this state to perform any of the functions, duties, or powers prescribed for surety bail bond agents under those sections.

...appointment with the superintendent of insurance in the manner prescribed by the superintendent. All insurers shall pay to the superintendent a fee pursuant to division (A)(8) of section 3905.40 of the Revised Code for each such appointment when issued and for each continuance thereafter. Such an appointment, unless canceled by the insurer, may be continued in force past the thirtieth day of June next after its...

...An insurer that appoints a surety bail bond agent who is a member of a business entity shall require that all other surety bail bond agents who are members of the same business entity be appointed to represent that insurer.

...Upon the expiration or cancellation of a surety bail bond agent's appointment, the agent shall not engage or attempt to engage in any activity requiring such an appointment. However, an insurer that cancels the appointment of a surety bail bond agent may authorize the agent to continue to attempt the arrest and surrender of a defendant for whom a bail bond had been written prior to the cancellation and to seek ...