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...If the code of regulations of any mutual life insurance corporation so provides, the board of directors or trustees, by a resolution adopted by a majority of the whole board, may designate three or more of its number to constitute an executive committee, which committee shall, to the extent provided in the resolution or in the code of regulations, have and exercise, during the interim between the meetings of the boar...

...The code of regulations of any mutual life insurance corporation shall provide that each policyholder of the corporation shall be a member of the corporation. As used in this section, "policyholder" means the person insured under an individual policy of life insurance, and the person to whom any annuity or pure endowment is presently or prospectively payable by the terms of an individual annuity or pure endowment co...

... (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 p...

...(A) In 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 prov...

... Any policyholder adversely affected 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.

...As used in sections 3913.20 to 3913.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Policy" means 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 Cod...

...(A) A domestic 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) 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 fractio...

... Any policyholder adversely affected 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.

...As used in sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code: (A) "Intermediate holding company" means a stock corporation that owns all of the shares of voting stock of one or more reorganized stock companies after a reorganization under sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code. "Intermediate holding company" also means a stock corporation that is the parent or subsidiary of another intermediate holding compan...

...(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 ...

...(A) A 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. On...

...(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...

...(A) Proposed amendments to the 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 plac...

...(A) Upon a reorganization plan taking effect in accordance with section 3913.28 of the Revised Code, 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 accom...

...All costs and expenses of the process of a reorganization under sections 3913.25 to 3913.38 of the Revised Code shall 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) Sections 3913.11 to 3913.13 and 3913.20 to 3913.23 of the Revised Code shall apply to a mutual insurance holding company as if the mutual insurance holding company were a domestic mutual insurance company. The members of the mutual insurance holding company are deemed to be members of a domestic mutual insurance company for all purposes of such sections. (B) A reorganization of a domestic mutual life insur...

...(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 ...

... (A) Any insurer, including any fraternal benefit society, that is organized under the laws of another state and 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 ...

...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.

...Life insurance policies may provide for not more than one year preliminary term insurance by incorporation therein of the following clause immediately preceding the "change of beneficiary" clause: "The first year's insurance under this policy is term insurance." If the premium charged for term insurance under a limited payment life or endowment preliminary term policy, providing for the payment of all premiu...

... No policy of life insurance shall be issued or delivered in this state or be issued by a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state unless such policy contains: (A) A provision that all premiums shall be payable in advance, either at the home office of the company or to an agent of the company, upon delivery of a receipt signed by one or more of the officers named in the policy; (B) A provisio...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Published monthly average" means: (a) "Moody's corporate bond yield average -- monthly average corporates" as published by Moody's investors service, inc., or any successor thereto; or (b) In the event that "Moody's corporate bond yield average -- monthly average corporates" is no longer published, a substantially similar average, established by rule promulgated by the superintend...

...(A) On and after January 1, 1993, any life insurance company authorized to do business in this state shall pay interest, in accordance with division (B) of this section and subject to division (C) of this section, on any proceeds that become due pursuant to the terms of a life insurance policy other than a credit life insurance policy. (B) The interest payable pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be comput...

... (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, this section shall apply to any individual life insurance policy insuring the life of a reservist, as defined in section 3923.381 of the Revised Code, who is on active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Revised Code, if the life insura...

...The nonforfeiture benefit referred to in division (H) of section 3915.05 of the Revised Code shall be available to the owner of the policy in the event of default in premium payments after premiums have been paid for three years, and such benefit shall be a stipulated form of insurance, the net value of which shall be at least equal to the reserve at the date of default on the policy and on any dividend additions the...

...(A) In the case of policies issued before January 1, 1989, or an earlier date, not before January 1, 1983, as of which section 3915.071 of the Revised Code becomes operative for such policies, no such policy of life insurance, except as set forth in division (G) of this section, shall be issued or delivered in this state unless such policy contains in substance the following provisions or corresponding provisions whi...

...(A) As used in this section, "operative date of the valuation manual" means the January 1 of the first calendar year that the valuation manual, as defined in section 3903.72 of the Revised Code, is effective. (B) No policy of life insurance shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state, on or after January 1, 1989, or the operative date (not before January 1, 1983) applicable to such policy, as per...

...This section applies to all policies of life insurance, not excluded by division (N) of section 3915.071 of the Revised Code, that are delivered, or issued for delivery, in this state on or after January 1, 1989. (A) Upon default in payment of the premium due on a policy anniversary, the cash surrender value shall not differ by more than two-tenths of one per cent of the amount of insurance from the sum of th...

... (A) This section shall be known as the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities. (B) This section does not apply to any reinsurance, group annuity purchased under a retirement plan or plan of deferred compensation established or maintained by an employer, including a partnership or sole proprietorship, or by an employee organization, or by both, other than a plan providing individual retirement...

...Except in the case of policies to which the second paragraph of this section applies, the loan value referred to in division (G) of section 3915.05 of the Revised Code shall be the reserve at the end of the current policy year on the policy and on any dividend additions thereto, less a sum of not more than two and one-half per cent of the amount insured by the policy and of any dividend additions thereto. The policy ...

...No policy of life insurance shall be issued or delivered in this state, or be issued by a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state, if it contains any of the following: (A) A provision for forfeiture of the policy for failure to repay any loan on the policy or to pay interest on such loan while the total indebtedness on the policy is less than its loan value; or any provision for forfeiture for ...

...A life insurance company may enter into subsequent agreements in writing with the insured, which need not be attached to the policy, to extend the time for the payment of any premium, or part thereof, upon the condition that failure to comply with the terms of such agreement shall lapse the policy. Subject to any lien that may be created to secure any indebtedness contracted by the insured in consideration of such ex...

...In ascertaining the indebtedness due upon policy or premium loans, the interest, if not paid when due, shall be added to the principal of such loans and shall bear interest at the rate specified in the note or loan agreement.

...Any life insurance company, at the request of the policyholder, may exchange, alter, or convert any policy of life or endowment insurance or any annuity issued by it for or into a policy of another plan of insurance or annuity as of a date not prior to the effective date of the original policy or annuity. If such newly written policy or annuity is issued as of a date prior to the date of the application for exchange,...

... No life insurance company nor any of its agents shall knowingly make, issue, or deliver in this state any policy or contract of life insurance which purports to be issued or to take effect as of a date more than six months before the application therefor was made, if thereby the premium on such policy or contract is reduced below the premium which would be payable thereon, as determined by the nearest birthday of th...

...(A) No policy of life insurance, nor any indorsement, rider, or application which becomes or is designed to become a part of any such policy, shall be delivered, issued for delivery, or used in this state, or be issued by a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state, until thirty days after the form of said policy, indorsement, rider, or application has been filed with the superintendent of insuran...

...In the case of an indorsement or rider that provides accelerated benefits in accordance with sections 3915.21 to 3915.24 of the Revised Code, the filing of the form of the indorsement or rider as required by section 3915.14 of the Revised Code shall include the form number of the policy or contract with which the indorsement or rider may be used.

...The policies of a life insurance company, not organized under the laws of this state, may contain any provision which the law of the state, territory, district, or country under which the company is organized prescribes shall be in such policies when they are issued in this state, and the policies of a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state, when issued or delivered in any other state, territor...

...The "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact" is intended to help states join together to establish an interstate compact to regulate designated insurance products. Pursuant to terms and conditions of this section, the state of Ohio seeks to join with other states and establish the interstate insurance product regulation commission, and thus become a member of the interstate insurance product regulation commi...

...As used in sections 3915.21 to 3915.24 of the Revised Code: (A) "Accelerated benefits" means the benefits that are payable under a policy and that meet all of the following criteria: (1) The benefits are payable to the policyholder or certificate holder during the lifetime of the insured and upon the occurrence of a qualifying event. (2) The benefits are payable in amounts that are fixed at the time of the acceler...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, every policy that provides accelerated benefits and that is issued or delivered in this state on or after the effective date of this section is subject to this chapter. (B) Sections 3915.21 to 3915.24 of the Revised Code do not apply to any policy that provides accelerated benefits for the sole purpose of providing directly or supplementing long-term care insur...

...The accelerated benefits provided by any policy subject to this chapter are life insurance benefits and are calculated primarily on the basis of mortality risks rather than morbidity risks.