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...(A) No handler shall commit an unfair marketing practice, as defined in division (B) of this section, whenever a marketing cooperative has been authorized by its members to bargain on behalf of its members for sales contracts with the handler and any of the following conditions exist: (1) Members of the marketing cooperative are obligated to produce and deliver agricultural products or produce under sales contracts ...

...sed Code, are not illegal as such, in unlawful restraint of trade, or part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose. (B) An agricultural cooperative, upon resolution of its board, may enter into marketing agreements and other arrangements with any other agricultural cooperative. Any two or more agricultural cooperatives may, by agreement between them, unite in employing or separate...

...Any foreign association may carry on any proper activities in this state upon compliance with the general regulations applicable to foreign corporations desiring to do business in this state. All contracts that could be made by any association incorporated under this chapter and that are made by or with such foreign associations, shall be enforceable in this state with all of the remedies set forth in this chapter.

...An association may organize, form, operate, own, control, have an interest in, own stock of, or be a member of any other cooperative, corporation, or other form of organization.

...Any exemptions under any law applying to agricultural products in the possession or under the control of the individual producer also shall apply to such products delivered by its producer members, as long as such products are in the possession or under the control of an agricultural cooperative.

...Membership stock and patronage stock of a cooperative are not to be considered securities under Chapter 1707. of the Revised Code.

...tion or on or after that date. (B) Any law that is in conflict with this chapter shall be construed as not applying to associations provided for in this chapter.

...(A) Whoever violates section 1729.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for each offense. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of section 1729.68 or commits an unfair marketing practice as defined in section 1729.69 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each offense.

...702. of the Revised Code or the similar laws of another state. (I) "Emergency health services" means those health care services that must be available on a seven-days-per-week, twenty-four-hours-per-day basis in order to prevent jeopardy to an enrollee's health status that would occur if such services were not received as soon as possible, and includes, where appropriate, provisions for transportation and indemnity...

...(A) Notwithstanding any law in this state to the contrary, any corporation, as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code, may apply to the superintendent of insurance for a certificate of authority to establish and operate a health insuring corporation. If the corporation applying for a certificate of authority is a foreign corporation domiciled in a state without laws similar to those of this chapter, the...

...f the proposed contractual periodic prepayments or premium rates, or both, accompanied by appropriate supporting data; (11) A financial plan which provides a three-year projection of operating results, including the projected expenses, income, and sources of working capital; (12) The enrollee complaint procedure to be utilized as required under section 1751.19 of the Revised Code; (13) A description of the pr...

...(A) Except as provided by division (D) of this section, upon the receipt by the superintendent of insurance of a complete application for a certificate of authority to establish or operate a health insuring corporation, which application sets forth or is accompanied by the information and documents required by division (A) of section 1751.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent shall review the application and acc...

...prospective enrollees. In making this determination, the superintendent may consider: (a) The financial soundness of the applicant's arrangements for health care services, including the applicant's proposed contractual periodic prepayments or premiums and the use of copayments and deductibles; (b) The adequacy of working capital; (c) Any agreement with an insurer, a government, or any other person for insuring...

...e functions not otherwise prohibited by law.

...Any trustee, director, officer, or employee of a health insuring corporation who receives, collects, disburses, or invests funds in connection with the activities of the health insuring corporation shall be responsible for such funds in a fiduciary relationship to the corporation.

...e construed to violate any provision of law relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals. (D) Any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter shall not be considered to be practicing medicine.

...ischarge from the hospital; (b) The determination by the enrollee's attending physician that inpatient care is no longer medically indicated for the enrollee; however, nothing in division (D)(3)(b) of this section precludes a health insuring corporation from engaging in utilization review as described in the evidence of coverage. (c) The enrollee's reaching the limit for contractual benefits; (d) The effective ...

...evised Code, to the extent that federal law supersedes, preempts, prohibits, or otherwise precludes the application of this section to the plan and its administrators. (B) A standardized identification card or an electronic technology issued or required to be used as provided in division (A)(1) of this section shall contain uniform prescription drug information in accordance with either division (B)(1) or (2) o...

...sapproval, and it shall thereafter be unlawful for the health insuring corporation to use the contractual periodic prepayment or premium rate, or amendment. (2) No contractual periodic prepayment for group policies for health care services shall be used until the contractual periodic prepayment has been filed with the superintendent. The filing shall be accompanied by an actuarial certification in the form pr...

...greement; (2) Require an employer to pay for any part of the premium for an unmarried dependent child that has attained the limiting age for dependents, as provided in the policy, contract, or agreement; (3) Require an employer to offer health insurance coverage to the dependents of any employee. (D)(1) Except as provided in division (D)(2) of this section, this section does not apply to any health insuring ...

...A health insuring corporation shall provide coverage, in accordance with the terms of the contract, for a subscriber's dependent children living outside the health insuring corporation's approved service area if a court order requires the subscriber to provide health care coverage to the dependent children.

...ent has not been reached on appropriate payment mechanisms between the health insuring corporation and the governmental agency administering these programs. Further, except as provided in section 1751.65 of the Revised Code, a health insuring corporation may reject an applicant for nongroup enrollment on the basis of any health status-related factor in relation to the applicant. (B) A health insuring corporation ma...

...deral, and international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, with local, state, and federal prosecutors, and with the national association of insurance commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries, provided that the recipient agrees to maintain the confidential or privileged status of the confidential or privileged document or information and has authority to do so. (3) Nothing in this section shall prohib...

...(A) No health insuring corporation, or agent, employee, or representative of a health insuring corporation, shall use any advertisement or solicitation document, or shall engage in any activity, that is unfair, untrue, misleading, or deceptive. (B) No health insuring corporation shall use a name that is deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation doing business in thi...

...(A) A peer review committee of a hospital or other health care facility or provider, or of an intermediary organization or health delivery network, with which a health insuring corporation has a contract for health care services may provide to a peer review committee of the health insuring corporation any information, documents, testimony, or other records relating to any matter that is the subject of evaluation or r...