Sec. 7. The following insurance shall be authorized and permitted to be written by Lloyds under this chapter:

(1) For the purpose of making insurance on dwelling-houses, stores and all kinds of buildings and household furniture, and other property against loss or damage, including loss of use or occupancy, by fire, lightning, windstorm, tornado, cyclone, earthquake, hail, frost or snow, bombardment, invasion, insurrection, riots or civil war or commotion, military or usurped power, and by explosion, whether fire ensues or not, except explosions on risks specified in this section, and also against loss or damage by water to any goods or premises arising from the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, pumps, or other apparatuses erected for extinguishing fires, and of water pipes, and against accidental injury to such sprinklers, pumps, or other apparatuses, and upon vessels, boats, cargoes, goods, merchandise, freight, and other property against loss or damage by all or any of the risks of lake, river, canal, and inland navigation and transportation, as well as by any or all of the risks of credit and upon automobiles, whether stationary or being operated under their power, which shall include all or any of the hazards of fire, explosions, transportation, collision, loss by legal liability for damage to property and to persons resulting from the maintenance and use of automobiles and loss by burglary or theft or both.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-7-1-7

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) For the purpose of making insurance upon vessels, freights, goods, wares, merchandise, specie, bullion, jewels, profits, commissions, bank notes, bills of exchange and other evidence of debt, bottomry and respondentia interests, and every insurance appertaining to or connected with marine risks and risks of transportation and navigation, including the risks of lake, river, canal, and inland transportation and navigation, and to effect reinsurance on any risk of the subscribers hereto, or any of said risks wholly or in part, or the transfer thereof, and to accept any authorized risk whether direct or by reinsurance.

(3) For the purpose of making insurance against loss or damage resulting from accident to or injury sustained by an employee or other person for which accident or injury the insured is liable.

Provided, that no such insurance shall be written by any Lloyds under this chapter until such Lloyds shall have deposited with the department of insurance of the state of Indiana the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in the direct or indirect obligations of the United States or of any state of the United States. In the event the total of all unsatisfied and unappealed from final awards made by the worker’s compensation board under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 against any Lloyds having made the above deposit shall exceed the amount of the above said deposit, then the department of insurance may require such Lloyds to make an additional deposit or deposits in cash in direct or indirect obligations of the United States or of any state of the United States in a sum equal to the difference between the amount of the unsatisfied final awards and the amount of the deposit with the department of insurance. The department of insurance is hereby authorized and directed to receive such deposit or deposits and to hold them exclusively for the protection of the holders of such insurance policies. Any deposit so made shall not be withdrawn except upon filing with the department of insurance evidence satisfactory to it that such Lloyds has no unsecured liability outstanding in this state upon any such insurance policy, and upon the approval of the department of insurance such Lloyds may withdraw such deposit, except that the above mentioned additional deposit may be withdrawn with the approval of the department of insurance upon filing satisfactory evidence that the total of all unsatisfied and unappealed from final awards made by the worker’s compensation board do not exceed the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).

Formerly: Acts 1919, c.177, s.7; Acts 1937, c.143, s.1. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.224; P.L.28-1988, SEC.85.

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