Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-23-10

  • Commissioner: means the insurance commissioner of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-23-1
  • domestic insurer: is a n insurer organized under the laws of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-23-1
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • person: is a n individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any similar entity or any combination of the foregoing acting in concert. See Indiana Code 27-1-23-1
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 10. Whenever it appears to the commissioner that any person has committed a violation of this chapter which so impairs the financial condition of a domestic insurer as to threaten insolvency or make the further transaction of business by it hazardous to its policyholders or the public, the commissioner may proceed as provided in the insurance laws of this state to take possession of the property of such domestic insurer and to conduct the business thereof. A determination made under this section must be accompanied by specific findings of fact and conclusions of law.

Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.387, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.244, SEC.9; P.L.26-1991, SEC.16.