Sec. 16. (a) The charter powers and licenses of any domestic insurers authorized to market one or more kinds of insurance or reinsurance under Class II or Class III and meeting the requirements set out in section 14 or 15 of this chapter may be broadened and extended hereunder to include the right, power and authority to make any one or more of the kinds of insurance and reinsurance specified in both Class II and Class III of IC 27-1-5-1.

     (b) Any domestic company authorized to insure against loss or damage by fire, which has been actively engaged in the fire insurance business continuously for ten (10) years or more, or whose predecessor or predecessors, if any prior to merger or consolidation, shall have been so engaged for such period, may, if it complies with the provisions of this subsection and without complying with the capitalization and surplus requirements of section 14 or section 15 of this chapter, insure against loss or damage to dwellings and appurtenant structures and to the contents thereof and any other personal property of a similar nature of the insured or of the members of his household, resulting from any peril, and may, in connection with making such insurance, also make insurance against the legal liability of the insured or of the members of his household, and for any medical, surgical and hospital expenses of any person other than the insured or such members, arising out of nonbusiness pursuits of the insured or such members or out of the condition of, or acts performed by the insured or such members on such dwellings and appurtenant structures and the real estate on which each is located. Where a company is entitled to make such additional insurance solely by virtue of this subsection, it shall not make such insurance unless it has made reinsurance arrangements satisfactory to the commissioner whereby all of such additional insurance is reinsured with a company which is qualified under IC 27-1 to make reinsurance of such additional kind of insurance. The charter powers and licenses of any domestic insurer meeting the requirements set out in this subsection may be broadened and extended hereunder to include the right, power and authority to make any one or more of the kinds of insurance permitted by this subsection.

     (c) No policy issued by a mutual company including a farm mutual insurance company, shall be required to contain a provision limiting the time within which suit against the insurer on such policy must be filed.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.75 1/2; Acts 1947, c.50, s.1; Acts 1957, c.265, s.2; Acts 1967, c.233, s.2. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.282, SEC.3; P.L.129-2003, SEC.2.