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...Credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance shall be issued only in the following forms: (A) Individual policies of life insurance issued to debtors on the term plan; (B) Individual policies of accident and health insurance issued to debtors on a term plan including individual policies issued on a franchise plan, as defined in section 3923.11 of the Revised Code, or disability benefit provisions ...

...(A) The amount of credit life insurance shall not exceed the initial indebtedness. Where an indebtedness repayable in substantially equal installments is secured by an individual policy of credit life insurance the amount of insurance shall at no time exceed the scheduled amount of indebtedness and, where secured by a group policy of credit life insurance, shall at no time exceed the amount of unpaid indebtedness. ...

...The term of any credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall, subject to acceptance by the insurer, commence on the date when the debtor becomes obligated to the creditor, or the date from which interest or finance charges accrue if later, except that, where a group policy provides coverage with respect to existing obligations, the insurance on a debtor with respect to such indebtedness shall c...

...(A) All credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance sold shall be evidenced by an individual policy, or in the case of group insurance by a certificate of insurance, which individual policy or group certificate of insurance shall be delivered to the debtor. (B) Each individual policy or group certificate of credit life insurance, or credit accident and health insurance, or both shall, in addition ...

...(A) All policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, endorsements and riders providing coverage on residents of Ohio shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance. (B) The superintendent shall within thirty days after the filing of any such policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, endorsements, and riders,...

...(A) Each insurer issuing credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall file with the superintendent of insurance its schedules of premium rates for use in connection with such insurance. Any insurer may revise such schedules from time to time, and shall file such revised schedules with the superintendent. No insurer shall issue any credit life insurance policy for which the premium rate exceeds ...

...All policies of credit life insurance and credit accident and health insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state only by an insurer authorized to do an insurance business in this state.

...and in accordance with the terms of the insurance contract. (B) All claims shall be paid either by draft drawn upon the insurer or by check of the insurer to the order of the claimant to whom payment of the claim is due pursuant to the policy provisions, or upon direction of such claimant to one specified. (C) No plan or arrangement shall be used whereby any person, firm, or corporation other than the insurer or it...

...When credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance is required as additional security for an indebtedness, the debtor shall, upon request to the creditor, have the option of furnishing the required amount of insurance through existing policies of insurance owned or controlled by him or of procuring and furnishing the required coverage through any insurer authorized to transact an insurance business wi...

...The superintendent may, in accordance with section 119.03 of the Revised Code, adopt such rules and regulations as he deems appropriate, for the enforcement of sections 3918.01 to 3918.11 of the Revised Code. Whenever the superintendent finds that there has been a violation of sections 3918.01 to 3918.13 of the Revised Code or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and after written notice thereof and he...

...Any party to the proceeding affected by an order of the superintendent shall be entitled to judicial review by following the procedure set forth in section 119.12 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates sections 3918.01 to 3918.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. The penalty provided in this section is in addition to any other penalty provided by law.

...f life or accident or life and accident insurance on the assessment plan, for the purpose of mutual protection and relief of its members, and for the payment of stipulated sums of money to the families, heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns of the deceased members of such company or association, as the member may direct, in the manner provided in the bylaws. The company also may receive money either by volunta...

...ld and maintain, upon every contract of insurance issued on and after January 1, 1926, assets in excess of other liabilities, to provide for reserves of not less than the minimum reserves prescribed in such sections. The basis for minimum reserves under such sections is the American experience table of mortality and interest at four per cent annually. Contracts may provide for not more than one year preliminary term...

...Under any contract providing, in addition to the regular contributions, for the payment currently of additional contributions to the extent needed to pay its share of claims and expenses and to maintain the tabular reserves required by sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or requiring any such additional amount to be charged as an indebtedness not exceeding the tabular reserves on the contract...

...The assets representing the reserves on all contracts issued on an after January 1, 1926, and on such other contracts as the association organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code designates upon which a reserve at least equal to the minimum reserve prescribed in section 3919.02 of the Revised Code has been accumulated, shall be held separate for the sole use and benefit of such contracts and the insured and...

... contracts in proportion to the cost of insurance on the basis provided in section 3919.02 of the Revised Code, or such other mortality table approximating the experience of the association as it may provide.

...similar benefits by the law relating to insurance companies, which additional reserves are subject to section 3919.04 of the Revised Code, concerning segregation of reserves.

...the equivalent paid-up or extended term insurance based upon a rate of mortality not lower than, and a rate of interest not higher than, that used in determining the reserve provided in sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Whenever the assets held separately for contracts issued on and after January 1, 1926, and for such other contracts designated as provided in such sections, exceed the reser...

...eport annually to the superintendent of insurance, on or before the first day of March, the valuation of outstanding contracts issued on and after January 1, 1926, or designated as provided in sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and in force on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year. The report shall contain a statement of the rate of earnings of the mean invested assets, the ...

...ons, including those engaged in writing insurance covering a single hazard, and not operated or conducted for profit, and all associations, lodges, orders, or societies which do not issue insurance certificates, are exempt from sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Any foreign company or association complying with sections 3919.02 to 3919.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may do business within this state, provided it can show a percentage of solvency of not less than one hundred five per cent, as provided in such sections, on all business in force on the thirty-first day of December of the year preceding the date of application to do business within this state.

...Associations organized under section 3919.01 of the Revised Code may provide in their bylaws that there shall be not less than five nor more than fifteen trustees, whose term of office shall be not more than three years. If the term is made more than one year, the bylaws may provide for electing at the first election a part of them for one year, a part for two years, and a part for three years, and thereafter electio...

...o and approved by the superintendent of insurance. Any such association which, while issuing policies or certificates, advertises or gives out that it is maintaining a reserve greater than that required for yearly renewable term policies shall continue to maintain such reserve against said policies or certificates while they are in force, and no amendment to its constitution and bylaws decreasing said reserve on the ...

...f life or accident or life and accident insurance on the assessment plan, may, with the consent in writing of a majority of its members, and upon the vote of the majority of its directors or trustees therefor, and with the written approval of the superintendent of insurance, amend its articles of incorporation and its constitution and bylaws in such a manner as to permit it to transact the business of life insurance ...