Sec. 15. (a) Except as provided in subsections (f) and (h), the commissioner shall collect the following filing fees:

 

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-3-15

  • Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Department: means "the department of insurance" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • 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
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
Document

Fee

 

Articles of incorporation

$ 350

 

 

Amendment of articles of

 

 

incorporation

$ 10

 

 

Filing of annual statement

 

 

and consolidated statement

$ 100

 

 

Annual renewal of company license

 

 

fee

$ 50

 

 

Withdrawal of certificate

 

 

of authority

$ 25

 

 

Certified statement of condition

$ 5

 

 

Any other document required to be

 

 

filed by this article

$ 25

 

The commissioner shall deposit fees collected under this subsection into the department of insurance fund established by section 28 of this chapter.

     (b) The commissioner shall collect a fee of ten dollars ($10) each time process is served on the commissioner under this title.

     (c) The commissioner shall collect the following fees for copying and certifying the copy of any filed document relating to a domestic or foreign corporation:

 

Per page for copying

As determined by

 

 

the commissioner

 

 

but not to exceed

 

 

actual cost

 

For the certificate

$10

     (d) Each domestic and foreign insurer and each health maintenance organization shall remit annually to the commissioner for deposit into the department of insurance fund established by section 28 of this chapter one thousand dollars ($1,000) as an internal audit fee. All assessment insurers, farm mutuals, and fraternal benefit societies shall remit to the commissioner for deposit into the department of insurance fund two hundred fifty dollars ($250) annually as an internal audit fee.

     (e) Beginning July 1, 1994, each insurer shall remit to the commissioner for deposit into the department of insurance fund established by section 28 of this chapter a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35) for each policy, rider, rule, rate, or endorsement filed with the state, including subsequent filings. Except as provided in subsection (f), each policy, rider, rule, rate, or endorsement that is filed as part of a particular product filing or in association with a particular product filing is an individual filing subject to the fee under this subsection. However, the total amount of fees paid under this subsection by each insurer for a particular product filing may not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

     (f) Beginning July 1, 2009, a policy, rider, rule, rate, or endorsement that is filed as part of a particular product filing or in association with a particular product filing for a commercial product described in:

(1) Class 2(b), Class 2(c), Class 2(d), Class 2(e), Class 2(f), Class 2(g), Class 2(h), Class 2(i), Class 2(j), Class 2(k), Class 2(l), or Class 2(m) of IC 27-1-5-1; or

(2) Class 3 of IC 27-1-5-1;

is considered to be part of a single filing for which the insurer is subject only to one (1) thirty-five dollar ($35) fee under subsection (e).

     (g) The commissioner shall pay into the state general fund by the end of each calendar month the amounts collected during that month under subsections (b) and (c).

     (h) The commissioner may not collect fees for quarterly statements filed under IC 27-1-20-33.

     (i) The commissioner may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to provide for the accrual and quarterly billing of fees under this section.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.22. As amended by P.L.31-1988, SEC.9; P.L.130-1994, SEC.2; P.L.116-1994, SEC.6; P.L.91-1998, SEC.3; P.L.268-1999, SEC.1; P.L.203-2001, SEC.4; P.L.173-2007, SEC.6; P.L.234-2007, SEC.188; P.L.3-2008, SEC.207.

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