Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 7056
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 7056
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. See
- Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See
- State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See
§ 7056. Grounds for liquidation
The Commissioner may petition the Superior Court of Washington County for an order directing the Commissioner to liquidate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this State on the basis of one or more of the following grounds:
(1) one or more grounds for an order of rehabilitation under section 7051 of this title exist, whether or not there has been a prior order directing the rehabilitation of the insurer; or
(2) the insurer is in such condition that the further transaction of business would be hazardous, financially or otherwise, to its policyholders, its creditors, or the public. (Added 1991, No. 45, § 2, eff. May 29, 1991.)