Ohio Code 1751.08 – Inapplicability of insurance laws
(A) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter or Title XXXIX of the Revised Code, provisions of Title XXXIX of the Revised Code shall not be applicable to any health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter. This division shall not apply to an insurer licensed and regulated pursuant to Title XXXIX of the Revised Code except with respect to its health insuring corporation activities authorized and regulated pursuant to this chapter.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1751.08
- Corporation: means a corporation formed under Chapter 1701. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Health insuring corporation: means a corporation, as defined in division (H) of this section, that, pursuant to a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement, pays for, reimburses, or provides, delivers, arranges for, or otherwise makes available, basic health care services, supplemental health care services, or specialty health care services, or a combination of basic health care services and either supplemental health care services or specialty health care services, through either an open panel plan or a closed panel plan. See Ohio Code 1751.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) For the purpose of clarifying jurisdiction under the “Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978,” 92 Stat. 2549, 11 U.S.C.A. 101, and in recognition of the right of this state to regulate domestic insurance companies under the “McCarran-Ferguson Act,” 59 Stat. 33 (1945), 15 U.S.C.A. 1011, a health insuring corporation is deemed to be a domestic insurance company.
(C) Solicitation of enrollees by a health insuring corporation holding a certificate of authority under this chapter, or its representatives, shall not be 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.