Section 3903.24 | Civil action against liquidator or insurer.
(A) Upon entry of an order appointing a liquidator of a domestic insurer or of an alien insurer domiciled in this state, no civil action shall be commenced against the insurer or liquidator, whether in this state or elsewhere, nor shall any such existing actions be maintained or further prosecuted after the entry of the order. The courts of this state shall give full faith and credit to injunctions against the liquidator or the company or the continuation of existing actions against the liquidator or the company, when such injunctions are included in an order to liquidate an insurer issued pursuant to corresponding provisions in other states. Whenever in the liquidator's judgment, protection of the estate of the insurer necessitates intervention in an action against the insurer that is pending outside this state, he may intervene in the action. The liquidator may defend any action in which he intervenes under this section at the expense of the estate of the insurer.
(B) The liquidator may, upon or after an order for liquidation, within two years or such time in addition to two years as applicable law may permit, commence an action or proceeding on behalf of the estate of the insurer upon any cause of action against which the period of limitation fixed by applicable law has not expired at the time of the filing of the complaint upon which the order is entered. Where, by any agreement, a period of limitation is fixed for commencing a suit or proceeding upon any claim, or for filing any claim, proof of claim, proof of loss, demand, notice, or the like, or where in any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, a period of limitation is fixed, either in the proceeding or by applicable law, for taking any action, filing any claim or pleading, or doing any act, and where in any such case the period had not expired at the date of the filing of the complaint, the liquidator may, for the benefit of the estate, take any such action or do any such act, required of or permitted to the insurer, within a period of one hundred eighty days subsequent to the entry of an order for liquidation, or within such further period as is shown to the satisfaction of the court not to be unfairly prejudicial to the other party.
(C) No statute of limitations or defense of laches shall run with respect to any action against an insurer between the filing of a complaint for liquidation against an insurer and the denial of the complaint. Any action against the insurer that might have been commenced when the complaint was filed may be commenced for at least sixty days after the complaint is denied.
(D) Any guaranty association or foreign guaranty association shall have standing to appear in any court proceeding concerning the liquidation of an insurer if such association is or may become liable to act as a result of the liquidation.
Available Versions of this Section
- March 7, 1983 – House Bill 830 - 114th General Assembly [ View March 7, 1983 Version ]