Indiana Code 27-1-6.5-1. Foreign insurers; qualification as domestic insurer; requirements
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Sec. 1. (a) Any foreign insurance company which is admitted to transact business in Indiana may, upon complying with the requirements for formation of a domestic company under IC 27-1-6, become a domestic insurer. When those requirements have been met, the commissioner may issue a certificate of authority, under IC 27-1-3-20, to permit the company to transact business in the state as a domestic company.
(b) A company which changes its status from foreign to domestic under subsection (a) has all the rights, titles, and interests in the assets of the original corporation, as well as all of its liabilities and obligations. The company shall be recognized as a company formed under the laws of this state as of the date of its incorporation in its original domiciliary state.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.170, SEC.1.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-6.5-1
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- certificate of authority: means an instrument in writing issued by the department to an insurer, which sets out the authority of such insurer to engage in the business of insurance or activities connected therewith. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" 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
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.