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...Upon the filing of the petition authorized by section 3903.74 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of insurance, or other officer, shall publish for six consecutive weeks in three papers of general circulation within the state, one of which is published at the seat of government, a notice containing a succinct statement of the object and prayer of the petition in such action, and the time within which persons clai...

...(A) Every property and casualty insurance company doing business in this state, except as exempted by the superintendent of insurance, annually, shall cause to be prepared by a qualified actuary, appointed by the company, the following documents: (1) An actuarial opinion that certifies to the reasonableness of the insurance company's reserves and that shall be entitled a "statement of actuarial opinion"; ...

...(A) The superintendent of insurance shall keep all of the following confidential: (1) An RBC report, to the extent that information contained in the report is not required to be included in an annual statement available to the public; (2) An RBC plan; (3) The results of, or a report on, an examination or analysis conducted pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 3903.84 of the Revised Code, and a corrective order i...

...(A) If any individual, after proper identification, submits a written request to an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization for access to recorded personal information about the individual that is reasonably described by the individual and reasonably locatable and retrievable by the insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization, the insurance institution, agent, or insurance ...

...(A) Within thirty business days from the date of receipt of a written request from an individual to correct, amend, or delete any recorded personal information about the individual within its possession, an insurance institution, agent, or insurance support organization shall do one of the following: (1) Correct, amend, or delete the portion of the recorded personal information in dispute; (2) Notify the individual...

...licyholder for the purpose of reporting claims experience or conducting an audit of the insurance institution's or agent's operations or services, provided the information disclosed is reasonably necessary for the group policyholder to conduct the review or audit; (O) To a group policyholder as provided in section 3901.89 of the Revised Code; (P) To a professional peer review organization for the purpose of revie...

...(A) Section 3905.02 of the Revised Code does not apply to any of the following: (1) Any insurer. For purposes of this division, "insurer" does not include an insurer's officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, or affiliates. (2) Any officer, director, or employee of an insurer or of an insurance agent, provided the officer, director, or employee does not receive any commission on policies written or sold to ins...

...(A) No person shall offer or sell travel insurance except as provided in sections 3905.064 to 3905.0611 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the superintendent of insurance may issue to an individual or business entity a limited lines travel insurance agent license that authorizes the holder of the license to sell, solicit, or negotiate travel insurance through a licensed insurer if ...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a travel retailer may offer and sell travel insurance under a limited lines travel insurance agent that is a business entity if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The limited lines travel insurance agent or travel retailer provides all of the following information to purchasers of travel insurance at the time of sale or in the fulfillment materials provided ...

...at could never result in payment of any claims; (2) Marketing blanket travel insurance coverage as free. (D) Marketing travel insurance directly to a consumer through a travel insurer's web site or by others through an aggregator site is not an unfair and deceptive act or practice or other violation of law if both of the following conditions are met: (1) An accurate summary or short description of coverage is p...

...(A)(1) All records and other information obtained by the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's deputies, examiners, assistants, or other employees, or agents relating to an investigation of an applicant for licensure under this chapter, or of an agent, solicitor, broker, or other person licensed or appointed under this chapter or Chapter 3951. or 3959. of the Revised Code, are confidential and are not p...

... those engaged in the act of adjusting claims or losses in connection with any policy of insurance written under the provisions of sections 3905.30 to 3905.35 of the Revised Code.

... of their clients in the adjustment of claims or losses; (3) Transactions involving policies issued by a captive insurer. For this purpose, a "captive insurer" means any of the following: (a) An insurer owned by one or more individuals or organizations, whose exclusive purpose is to insure risks of one or more of the parent organizations or individual owners and risks of one or more affiliates of the parent o...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an agent may charge a consumer a fee if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The fee is disclosed to the consumer in a manner that separately identifies the fee and the premium. (2) The fee is not calculated as a percentage of the premium. (3) The fee is not refunded, forgiven, waived, offset, or reduced by any commission earned or received for any ...

... of the insurer's reserves on remaining claims has been independently verified pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section. (j) A limit on the producer's writings in relation to the insurer's surplus and total writings. The insurer may establish a different limit for each line or subline of business. The insurer shall notify the producer when the applicable limit is approached and shall not accept business from the ...

... on-site review of the underwriting and claims processing operations of the managing general agent. (D) Binding authority for all reinsurance contracts or participation in insurance or reinsurance syndicates shall be vested in an officer of the insurer who is not affiliated with the managing general agent. (E) Within thirty days of entering into or terminating a contract with a managing general agent, the insurer s...

...de workouts or settlements of disputed claims may be counted toward the minimum asset requirement for five years if the asset is real property and three years if the asset is not real property. (G) The superintendent may determine an insurer to be financially hazardous under section 3903.09 of the Revised Code if either of the following apply: (1) The insurer does not own the amount of assets needed to meet i...

...he amount of premiums received, and the claims and taxes paid in this state and the United States, for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December. Such statement shall also contain a description of the investments of the company, partnership, or association in this country, and such other information as is required by the superintendent.

...Every person holding a policy 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 f...

...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...

...After having received three annual 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.

...e payable to such person, free from the claims of the representatives of the spouse or any creditors of the spouse.

...No life insurance company organized or doing business within this state shall: (A) Make any distinction or discrimination on the basis of race as to premiums or rates charged for life insurance policies; (B) Demand or require greater premiums from persons who are of different races and who are of the same age, sex, general condition of health, and hope of longevity; (C) Make or require any rebate, diminution, or d...

..., and the amount which such stockholder claims is their fair cash value. The right of a dissenting stockholder to be paid the fair cash value of his shares shall cease when the corporation, for any reason and in accordance with the provisions set forth in this section, abandons the plan to mutualize the corporation. No demand for payment of such fair cash value may be withdrawn by the stockholder making the demand ...

...(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...