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...(A) A domestic mutual life insurance company may become a stock life insurance company, pursuant to sections 3913.11 to 3913.13 of the Revised Code, provided that the company have unassigned surplus at least equal to the capital and surplus required under section 3907.05 of the Revised Code for a life insurance company to commence business in this state, that such conversion will benefit the company, that adequate pr...

...effecting a conversion of a mutual life insurance company into a stock life insurance company, each policyholder is entitled to consideration in an amount equal to his equitable share of the value of the mutual company as provided for in the plan of conversion. Such consideration may be in the form of stock, either common or preferred, warrants, bonds, debentures, cash, or increased benefits. If the plan provides fo...

...ed by an order of the superintendent of insurance pursuant to division (F) of section 3913.11 of the Revised Code, may appeal to the court of common pleas pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...ans a contract of insurance, other that life insurance issued on the mutual plan, and includes the master contract for group insurance, and also includes any policy or policies from or in continuation of which a policy in effect on the date of the examination conducted pursuant to division (C) of section 3913.21 of the Revised Code has been reissued or renewed. (B) "Policyholder" means the person, group of persons, ...

...tic mutual insurance company other than life may become a stock insurance corporation other than life, pursuant to sections 3913.20 to 3913.23 of the Revised Code, provided that such conversion will benefit the company, that adequate provision for protection of the policyholders' interests is made, and that such conversion is not inequitable, unreasonable, or contrary to law. (B) The board of directors of a mutual c...

...) In effecting a conversion of a mutual insurance company into a stock insurance corporation pursuant to sections 3913.20 to 3913.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each mutual policyholder is entitled to such shares of stock of the new corporation as his equitable share of the value of the mutual company will purchase. If such equitable share of the value of the mutual company entitles a policyholder to a fractiona...

...ed by an order of the superintendent of insurance pursuant to division (F) of section 3913.21 of the Revised Code, may appeal to the court of common pleas pursuant to section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...any" means a domestic or foreign mutual life insurance company or a domestic or foreign mutual insurance company other than a mutual life insurance company. (C) "Mutual insurance holding company" means a domestic mutual insurance holding company incorporated pursuant to a reorganization plan adopted under sections 3913.26 to 3913.28 of the Revised Code, which company is the parent company of a reorganized stock comp...

...(A) A mutual insurance company, by itself or together with one or more other mutual insurance companies acting pursuant to a joint reorganization plan, may reorganize in accordance with the requirements of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A mutual insurance company may adopt a reorganization plan that is consistent with the requirements of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. Such ...

...reorganization plan adopted by a mutual insurance company's board of directors pursuant to section 3913.26 of the Revised Code shall be voted upon by a mutual insurance company's policyholders at a policyholders' meeting. A policyholder is entitled to cast only one vote, in person or by proxy, on the reorganization plan regardless of the number of policies or contracts that the policyholder may own or hold. Only pro...

...(A) A mutual insurance company shall not proceed with a reorganization plan approved by the mutual insurance company's policyholders under section 3913.27 of the Revised Code until the reorganization plan has been reviewed by, and has received the approval of, the superintendent of insurance, and the articles of incorporation for the mutual insurance holding company and the reorganized stock company, and, if applicab...

...e articles of incorporation of a mutual insurance holding company may be adopted at any members' meeting. The board of directors of a mutual insurance holding company shall provide notice of any members' meeting conducting a vote on the adoption of an amendment to the articles of incorporation in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the company's principal place of business is located, at ...

..., the corporate existence of the mutual insurance company shall continue in the reorganized stock company. On the effective date of the reorganization, all of the assets, rights, franchises, and interests of the mutual insurance company in and to every species of property, whether real, personal, or mixed, and any accompanying choses in action, shall be vested in the reorganized stock company, without any deed or tra...

...be paid for or reimbursed by the mutual insurance company, the reorganized stock company, or an intermediate holding company.

...(A) A mutual insurance company may reorganize by merging its policyholders' membership interests into a domestic or foreign mutual insurance holding company and continuing the corporate existence of the mutual insurance company as a reorganized stock company. A mutual insurance company reorganizing under this section shall comply with all applicable provisions of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code, and a...

...A membership interest in a mutual insurance holding company is not a security under the laws of this state. No member of a mutual insurance holding company may transfer membership in the mutual insurance holding company or any right arising from membership.

...) A reorganization of a domestic mutual life insurance company subject to sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code is not subject to sections 3901.32 to 3901.323 of the Revised Code. (C) Notwithstanding division (B) of this section, for a period of five years following the effective date of a reorganization under sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code, no person shall acquire control of a reorg...

...(A) A mutual insurance holding company, and, if applicable, its intermediate holding company, are deemed to be insurers subject to sections 3903.01 to 3903.76 of the Revised Code. A mutual insurance holding company and the intermediate holding company accordingly are deemed to be parties to any proceeding under sections 3903.01 to 3903.76 of the Revised Code involving an insurance company that is a subsidiary of the ...

...Any action challenging the validity of, or arising out of, actions taken or proposed to be taken in connection with a reorganization under sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code shall be commenced no later than thirty days after the effective date of the reorganization.

...The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to carry out the purposes of sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code.

...The attorney general may, under authority granted under common law and sections 109.23, 109.24, 109.34, and 109.35 of the Revised Code, review any transaction, as defined in section 109.34 of the Revised Code, involving nonprofit health care entities. Nothing in section 3901.043 or sections 3913.25 to 3913.37 of the Revised Code shall be construed to limit the independent authority of the attorney general to protect ...

...is admitted to transact the business of insurance in this state may become a domestic insurer by complying with all of the requirements of law relative to the organization and licensing of a domestic insurer of the same type and by designating its principal place of business at a place in this state. Such a domestic insurer shall be issued like certificates and licenses to transact business in this state, is subject ...

...As used in this chapter, "company" includes corporations and associations.

...This chapter does not apply to annuities except as provided in sections 3915.051, 3915.073, 3915.14, and 3915.21 to 3915.24 of the Revised Code, industrial policies except as provided in sections 3915.07 and 3915.071 of the Revised Code, fraternal benefit societies, corporations or associations operating on the assessment plan, or corporations or associations which have been organized under sections 3919.01 to 3919.1...

...No policy of life insurance shall be issued or delivered in this state, and no policy of life insurance of a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state shall be issued, unless it meets the requirements of this chapter.

...(A) "Presentment" means a demand made by or on behalf of a person entitled to enforce an instrument to pay the instrument made to the drawee or a party obliged to pay the instrument or, in the case of a note or accepted draft payable at a bank, to the bank or to accept a draft made to the drawee. (B) The following rules are subject to sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code, agreement of the parties, clearin...

...(A) Dishonor of a note is governed by the following rules: (1) If the note is payable on demand, the note is dishonored if presentment is duly made to the maker and the note is not paid on the day of presentment. (2) If the note is not payable on demand and is payable at or through a bank or the terms of the note require presentment, the note is dishonored if presentment is duly made and the note is not paid on the...

...(A) The obligation of an indorser set forth in division (A) of section 1303.55 of the Revised Code and the obligation of a drawer set forth in division (D) of section 1303.54 of the Revised Code may not be enforced unless one of the following applies: (1) The indorser or drawer is given notice of dishonor of the instrument complying with this section; (2) Notice of dishonor is excused under division (B) of section ...

...(A) Presentment for payment or acceptance of an instrument is excused under any of the following circumstances: (1) The person entitled to present the instrument cannot with reasonable diligence make presentment. (2) The maker or acceptor has repudiated an obligation to pay the instrument, has died, or is in insolvency proceedings. (3) By the terms of the instrument presentment is not necessary to enforce the obli...

...(A) The following are admissible as evidence and create a presumption of dishonor and of any notice of dishonor stated: (1) A document regular in form as provided in division (B) of this section that purports to be a protest; (2) A purported stamp or writing of the drawee, payor bank, or presenting bank on or accompanying the instrument stating that acceptance or payment has been refused unless reasons for the refu...

...(A) The obligation of a party to pay the instrument is discharged as stated in this chapter or by an act or agreement with the party that would discharge an obligation to pay money under a simple contract. (B) The discharge of the obligation of a party is not effective against a person acquiring rights of a holder in due course of the instrument without notice of the discharge.

...(A) Subject to division (E) of this section, an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument. (B)(1) Subject to division (E) of this section, a note is paid to the extent payment is made by or on behalf of a party obliged to pay the note to a person that formerly was entitled to enforce the note only if at...

...(A) If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument, the effect of tender is governed by principles of law applicable to tender of payment under a simple contract. (B) If tender of payment of an obligation to pay an instrument is made to a person entitled to enforce the instrument and the tender is refused, there is discharge, to the extent of the amo...

...(A) A person entitled to enforce an instrument, with or without consideration, may discharge the obligation of a party to pay the instrument in either of the following ways: (1) By surrender of the instrument to the party, destruction, mutilation, or cancellation of the instrument, cancellation or striking out of the party's signature, the addition of words to the instrument indicating discharge, or any other intent...

...(A) If a person entitled to enforce an instrument releases the obligation of a principal obligor in whole or in part, and another party to the instrument is a secondary obligor with respect to the obligation of that principal obligor, the following rules apply: (1) Any obligations of the principal obligor to the secondary obligor with respect to any previous payment by the secondary obligor are not affected. Unless...

...(A) As used in sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Account" means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or similar account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit. (2) "Afternoon" means the period of day between noon and midnight. (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on...

...(A) To the extent that items within sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code are also within the scope of Chapter 1303. and Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code, they are subject to those chapters. In the event of conflict, the provisions of sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code govern those of Chapter 1303., but the provisions of Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code govern those of sections 1304.01 to 130...

...(A) The effect of the provisions of this chapter may be varied by agreement, but the parties to the agreement cannot disclaim a bank's responsibility for its lack of good faith or failure to exercise ordinary care or limit the measure of damages for the lack or failure. However, the parties may determine by agreement the standards by which the bank's responsibility is to be measured if those standards are not manifes...

...A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for the purpose of computing the time within which and determining the place at or to which action may be taken or notices or orders shall be given under Chapter 1303. and sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If an item states that it is "payable through" a bank identified in the item, both of the following apply: (1) The item designates the bank as a collecting bank and does not by itself authorize the bank to pay the item. (2) The item may be presented for payment only by or through the bank. (B) If an item states that it is "payable at" a bank identified in the item, the item is equivalent to a draft drawn on th...

...(A) For the purpose of allowing time to process items, prove balances, and make the necessary entries on its books to determine its position for the day, a bank may fix an afternoon hour of two p.m. or later as a cut-off hour for the handling of money and items and the making of entries on its books. (B) An item or deposit of money received on any day after a cut-off hour so fixed or after the close of the banking d...

...(A) Unless otherwise instructed, a collecting bank in a good faith effort to secure payment of a specific item drawn on a payor other than a bank, and with or without the approval of any person involved, may waive, modify, or extend time limits imposed or permitted by Chapters 1301., 1302., 1303., 1304., 1305., 1307., 1308., 1309., and 1310. of the Revised Code for a period not exceeding two additional banking days ...

...(A) "Agreement for electronic presentment" means an agreement, clearing house rule, or federal reserve regulation or operating circular providing that presentment of an item may be made by transmission of an image of an item or information describing the item rather than delivery of the item itself. The "agreement for electronic presentment" may provide for procedures governing retention, presentment, payment, dishon...

...An action to enforce an obligation, duty, or right arising under sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code shall be brought within three years after the cause of action accrues.

...(A) Unless a contrary intent clearly appears and prior to the time that a settlement given by a collecting bank for an item is or becomes final, the bank with respect to the item is an agent or subagent of the owner of the item, and any settlement given for the item is provisional. This provision applies regardless of the form of indorsement or lack of indorsement and even though credit given for the item is subject ...

...(A) A collecting bank shall exercise ordinary care in doing all of the following: (1) Presenting an item or sending it for presentment; (2) Sending notice of dishonor or non-payment or returning an item other than a documentary draft to the bank's transferor after learning that the item has not been paid or accepted; (3) Settling for an item when the bank receives final settlement; (4) Notifying its transferor of...

...Subject to Chapter 1303. of the Revised Code concerning conversion of instruments and restrictive indorsements, only a collecting bank's transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to it and a collecting bank is not liable to prior parties for any action taken pursuant to the instructions or in accordance with any agreement with its transferor.

...(A) A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved, and the method generally used by it or others to present those items. (B) A collecting bank may do any of the following: (1) Send an item directly to the payor bank; (2) Send an item to a non-bank payor if a...

...If a customer delivers an item to a depositary bank for collection, both of the following apply: (A) The depositary bank becomes a holder of the item at the time it receives the item for collection if the customer at the time of delivery was a holder of the item, whether or not the customer indorses the item, and, if the bank satisfies the other requirements of section 1303.32 of the Revised Code, it is a holder in ...

...Any agreed method that identifies the transferor bank is sufficient for the item's further transfer to another bank.

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed, tender of payment is a condition to the seller's duty to tender and complete any delivery. (B) Tender of payment is sufficient when made by any means or in any manner current in the ordinary course of business unless the seller demands payment in legal tender and gives any extension of time reasonably necessary to procure it. (C) Subject to section 1303.61 of the Revised Code, payment b...

...(A) Where the contract requires payment before inspection, nonconformity of the goods does not excuse the buyer from so making payment unless: (1) The nonconformity appears without inspection; or (2) Despite tender of the required documents the circumstances would justify injunction against honor under division (B) of section 1305.08 of the Revised Code. (B) Payment pursuant to division (A) of this section does no...

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed and subject to division (C) of this section, where goods are tendered or delivered or identified to the contract for sale, the buyer has a right before payment or acceptance to inspect them at any reasonable place and time and in any reasonable manner. When the seller is required or authorized to send the goods to the buyer, the inspection may be after their arrival. (B) Expenses of insp...

...Unless otherwise agreed documents against which a draft is drawn are to be delivered to the drawee on acceptance of the draft if it is payable more than three days after presentment; otherwise, only on payment.

...In furtherance of the adjustment of any claim or dispute: (A) either party on reasonable notification to the other and for the purpose of ascertaining the facts and preserving evidence has the right to inspect, test, and sample the goods including such of them as may be in the possession or control of the other; and (B) the parties may agree to a third party inspection or survey to determine the conformity or condi...

...Subject to the provisions of section 1302.70 of the Revised Code, and unless otherwise agreed under sections 1302.92 and 1302.93 of the Revised Code, if the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to the contract, the buyer may: (A) reject the whole; or (B) accept the whole; or (C) accept any commercial unit or units and reject the rest.

...(A) Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller. (B) Subject to the provisions of section 1302.62 of the Revised Code: (1) after rejection any exercise of ownership by the buyer with respect to any commercial unit is wrongful as against the seller; and (2) if the buyer has before rejection taken physical posse...

...(A) Subject to any security interest in the buyer as provided in division (C) of section 1302.85 of the Revised Code, when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make ...

...(A) The buyer's failure to state in connection with rejection a particular defect which is ascertainable by reasonable inspection precludes the buyer from relying on the unstated defect to justify rejection or to establish breach: (1) where the seller could have cured it if stated seasonably; or (2) between merchants when the seller has after rejection made a request in writing for a full and final written st...

...(A) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer: (1) after a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods signifies to the seller that the goods are conforming or that he will take or retain them in spite of their non-conformity; or (2) fails to make an effective rejection as provided in division (A) of section 1302.61 of the Revised Code, but such acceptance does not occur until the buyer has had a reasonable opportu...

...(A) The buyer must pay at the contract rate for any goods accepted. (B) Acceptance of goods by the buyer precludes rejection of the goods accepted and if made with knowledge of a non-conformity cannot be revoked because of it unless the acceptance was on the reasonable assumption that the non-conformity would be seasonably cured but acceptance does not of itself impair any other remedy provided by sections 1302.01 t...

...(A) The buyer may revoke his acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose non-conformity substantially impairs its value to him if he has accepted it: (1) on the reasonable assumption that its non-conformity would be cured and it has not been seasonably cured; or (2) without discovery of such non-conformity if his acceptance was reasonably induced either by the difficulty of discovery before acceptance or by the s...

...(A) A contract for sale imposes an obligation on each party that the other's expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired. When reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party, the other may in writing demand adequate assurance of due performance and until he receives such assurance may if commercially reasonable suspend any performance for which he has not al...

...When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may: (A) for a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or (B) resort to any remedy for breach as provided in sections 1302.77 and 1302.85 of the Revised Code even though he has notified the repudia...

...(A) Until the repudiating party's next performance is due he can retract his repudiation unless the aggrieved party has since the repudiation cancelled or materially changed his position or otherwise indicated that he considers the repudiation final. (B) Retraction may be by any method which clearly indicates to the aggrieved party that the repudiating party intends to perform, but must include any assurance justif...

...(A) An "installment contract" is one which requires or authorizes the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate contract" or its equivalent. (B) The buyer may reject any installment which is non-conforming if the non-conformity substantially impairs the value of that installment and cannot be cured or if the non-conformity is...

...Where the contract requires for its performance goods identified when the contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of either party before the risk of loss passes to the buyer, or in a proper case under a "no arrival, no sale" term pursuant to section 1302.37 of the Revised Code, then: (A) if the loss is total the contract is avoided; and (B) if the loss is partial or the goods have so deteriora...

...(A) Where without fault of either party the agreed berthing, loading, or unloading facilities fail or an agreed type of carrier becomes unavailable or the agreed manner of delivery otherwise becomes commercially impracticable but a commercially reasonable substitute is available, such substitute performance must be tendered and accepted. (B) If the agreed means or manner of payment fails because of domestic or forei...

...Except so far as a seller may have assumed a greater obligation and subject to section 1302.72 of the Revised Code on substituted performance: (A) Delay in delivery or non-delivery in whole or in part by a seller who complies with divisions (B) and (C) of this section is not a breach of his duty under a contract for sale if performance as agreed has been made impracticable by the occurrence of a contingency the non-...

...(A) Where the buyer receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under section 1302.73 of the Revised Code, he may by written notification to the seller as to any delivery concerned, and where the prospective deficiency substantially impairs the value of the whole contract under section 1302.70 of the Revised Code relating to breach of installment contracts, then also as to the w...

...Remedies for breach of any obligation or promise collateral or ancillary to a contract for sale are not impaired by the provisions of sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...(A) Where the seller discovers the buyer to be insolvent he may refuse delivery except for cash including payment for all goods theretofore delivered under the contract, and stop delivery under section 1302.79 of the Revised Code. (B) Where the seller discovers that the buyer has received goods on credit while insolvent he may reclaim the goods upon demand made within ten days after the receipt, but if misrepresenta...

...Where the buyer wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of goods or fails to make a payment due on or before delivery or repudiates with respect to a part or the whole, then with respect to any goods directly affected and, if the breach is of the whole contract under section 1302.70 of the Revised Code, then also with respect to the whole undelivered balance, the aggrieved seller may: (A) withhold delivery of such ...

...(A) An aggrieved seller under section 1302.77 of the Revised Code may: (1) identify to the contract conforming goods not already identified if at the time he learned of the breach they are in his possession or control; (2) treat as the subject of resale goods which have demonstrably been intended for the particular contract even though those goods are unfinished. (B) Where the goods are unfinished an aggrieved ...

...(A) The seller may stop delivery of goods in the possession of a carrier or other bailee when he discovers the buyer to be insolvent as provided in section 1302.76 of the Revised Code and may stop delivery of carload, truckload, planeload, or larger shipments of express or freight when the buyer repudiates or fails to make a payment due before delivery or if for any other reason the seller has a right to withho...

...Every life insurance company organized by act of congress or under the laws of another state of the United States doing business in this state, annually shall file a statement of its condition and affairs in the office of the superintendent of insurance, and such statement shall be filed on the forms adopted by the superintendent pursuant to section 3901.77 of the Revised Code.

...Every life insurance company organized by act of congress or under the laws of another state of the United States, after the payment of the first premium, and not more than sixty nor less than ten days prior to the maturity of every subsequent premium, shall give notice in writing of the time of payment of such premium to the person whose life is insured or to any other person who is the assignee or the owner of the ...

...ctory evidence to the superintendent of insurance of the solvency and ability of the company to meet all its engagements at maturity, and that the deposit is maintained as required by section 3909.03 of the Revised Code, he shall issue renewal certificates of authority to the agents of the company, certified copies of which must be filed in the county recorder's office of the county in which the agency is located. Su...

...ving or procuring applications for life insurance, nor in any manner aid in transacting the business of any company, partnership, or association incorporated by or organized under the laws of any foreign government, until such company, partnership, or association completes the following acts: (A) Deposits with the superintendent of insurance, for the benefit of policyholders of the company, partnership, or associati...

... in the office of the superintendent of insurance, in the form and manner required for the annual statements of similar companies organized under the laws of this state, and annually, on the first day of January, or within sixty days thereafter, shall file with the superintendent a statement of all its affairs, in the manner and form required of similar companies of this state, except as to the requirements of schedu...

...g in the transaction of the business of life insurance in this state, until it procures from the superintendent of insurance a certificate of authority, which shall be renewable annually, stating that sections 3909.01 to 3909.17 of the Revised Code have been complied with, and setting forth the name of its attorney, a certified copy of which certificate must be filed with and retained for a minimum of two years from ...

...ctory evidence to the superintendent of insurance of the solvency and ability of the company, partnership, or association to meet all its engagements at maturity, he shall issue renewal certficates of authority to the agents thereof, certified copies of which must be filed-by said agents in the county recorder's office of the county where the agency is located and retained therewith for a minimum of two years from th...

...herwise, in transacting the business of insurance, shall be subject to the penalties provided by law in case of the failure of an insurance company organized under the laws of this state to make an annual statement.

...censes granted by the superintendent of insurance under sections 3907.01 to 3907.21, inclusive, and 3909.01 to 3909.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall continue in force, unless suspended or revoked, until the first day of April next after the date of their issuance.

...ceases to transact the business of life insurance in this state according to law, the statutory agent last designated by or acting for it is deemed to continue as agent for it, unless a new statutory agent is appointed, for the purpose of serving process, 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 age...

...Sections 3909.01 to 3909.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not prevent a company, partnership, or association mentioned in such sections from collecting the interest on any securities deposited by it, so long as it continues solvent and complies with such sections, nor do such sections prevent any such company, partnership, or association from exchanging them for other securities of equal value of the kind named ...

...No life insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, shall undertake any business or risk except as provided in this section, and no company, partnership, or association, organized or incorporated by act of congress, or under the laws of this or any other state of the United States, or by any foreign government, transacting the business of life insurance in this state, shall be permitted to take any kin...

...delivery in this state except by a life insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, or a company, partnership, or association, organized or incorporated, by an act of congress, or under the laws of this or any other state of the United States, or any foreign government, and transacting the business of life insurance in this state. No such company, partnership or association shall deliver or issue for d...

...(A) Each life insurance company authorized to transact business in this state shall maintain reserves, with respect to any line of sickness and accident insurance that it writes, 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 ul...

...Every life insurance company doing business in this state, and issuing policies on both the participating and nonparticipating plans, shall file with the superintendent of insurance separate annual statements of profits and losses with reference to each of such kinds of insurance.

...Any insurance company that issues life insurance policies in this state shall file electronically, in a format prescribed by the superintendent of insurance, on or before June first of each year, a description of the measures taken by the insurance company to detect and prevent stranger-originated life insurance. The description shall be attested to by an officer of the company. The reports shall be maintained ...

...of insurance issued by a company on the life of any person is entitled to be furnished by the company with a copy of any application or document held by it, either written or printed, upon which such policy was issued, or which may affect its validity. Upon demand made for such copy by the holder of a policy, or by any person upon whose life it was so issued, the company shall make and forthwith furnish to such holde...

...Every life insurance company doing business in this state shall return with, and as part of any policy issued by it, to any person taking such policy, a complete copy of each application or other document held by it which is intended in any manner to affect the force or validity of such policy. A company which neglects to do so is estopped from denying the truth of any such application or other document, so long as i...

...No life insurance company doing business in this state shall take any application, medical certificate, or other document, for insurance upon the life of any person, in cipher or by character of any sort other than ordinary written or printed language. Any application, medical certificate, or other document taken in violation of this section is void as against any person claiming under a policy of insurance issued th...

...No answer to any interrogatory made by an applicant in his application for a policy shall bar the right to recover upon any policy issued thereon, or be used in evidence at any trial to recover upon such policy, unless it is clearly proved that such answer is willfully false, that it was fraudulently made, that it is material, and that it induced the company to issue the policy, that but for such answer the policy w...

...nual premiums on a policy issued on the life of any person in this state, all companies are estopped from defending upon any ground other than fraud against any claim arising upon such policy by reason of errors, omissions, or misstatements of the insured in an application made by him on which the policy was issued, except as to age.

...In respect to insurance issued upon the life of any minor, regardless of the age of the minor at the date of the issuance of said insurance, for the benefit of such minor, or for the benefit of the father, mother, husband, wife, child, brother, or sister of such minor, the insured is not, by reason only of such minority, incompetent to contract for such insurance, or for the surrender of such insurance, or to give a ...

... or effect an insurance on the person's life, for any definite period of time or for the term of the person's natural life, to inure to the benefit of the person's spouse and children, or either, or other persons dependent upon such person, or an institution or entity described in division (B)(1) of this section, or any creditor the person causes to be appointed and provided for in the policy. (B)(1) Any religious, ...

...or trust may maintain the proposed life insurance in force after the insured's employment terminates or the insured's retirement benefits expire. (C) An employer's or trust's insurable interest in the lives of its nonmanagement and retired employees is limited to an amount of aggregate projected death benefits commensurate with the aggregate projected gross liabilities for such employees under all employee benefit p...

...All contracts of life or endowment insurance or annuities upon the life of any person, or any interest therein, which may hereafter mature and which have been taken out for the benefit of, or made payable by change of beneficiary, transfer, or assignment to, the spouse or children, or any persons dependent upon such person, or an institution or entity described in division (B)(1) of section 3911.09 of the Revised Cod...