1. The commissioner may petition the district court for an order to rehabilitate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state on any of the following grounds:

 a. The insurer is in a condition that the further transaction of business would be financially hazardous to its policyholders, creditors, or the public.
 b. There is reasonable cause to believe that there has been embezzlement from the insurer, wrongful sequestration or diversion of the insurer’s assets, forgery or fraud affecting the insurer, or other illegal conduct in, by, or with respect to the insurer that, if established, would endanger assets in an amount threatening the solvency of the insurer.
 c. The insurer has failed to remove a person, whether an officer, manager, general agent, employee, or other person, who in fact has executive authority in the insurer, if the person has been found after notice and hearing by the commissioner to be dishonest or untrustworthy in a way affecting the insurer’s business.
 d. Control of the insurer is in a person or persons found after notice and hearing to be untrustworthy. Control may be by stock ownership or by other means and may be direct or indirect.
 e. A person who in fact has executive authority in the insurer, whether an officer, manager, general agent, director or trustee, employee, or other person has refused to be examined under oath by the commissioner concerning the insurer’s affairs, in this state or elsewhere, and after reasonable notice of the fact the insurer has failed promptly and effectively to terminate the employment and status of the person and all the person’s influence on management.
 f. After demand by the commissioner under chapter 507 or under this chapter, the insurer has failed to promptly make available for examination any of its property, books, accounts, documents, or other records, or those of a subsidiary or related company within the control of the insurer, or those of a person having executive authority in the insurer so far as they pertain to the insurer.
 g. Without first obtaining the written consent of the commissioner, the insurer has transferred, or attempted to transfer, in a manner contrary to chapter 521 or 521A, substantially its entire property or business, or has entered into a transaction the effect of which is to merge, consolidate, or reinsure substantially its entire property or business in or with the property or business of any other person.
 h. The insurer or its property has been or is the subject of an application for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or sequestrator or similar fiduciary of the insurer of its property other than as authorized under the insurance laws of this state, and the appointment has been made or is imminent, and the appointment might oust the court of this state of jurisdiction or might prejudice orderly delinquency proceedings under this chapter.
 i. Within the previous three years the insurer has willfully violated its charter or articles of incorporation, its bylaws, an insurance law of this state, or a valid order of the commissioner under section 507C.9.
 j. The insurer has failed to pay within sixty days after the due date an obligation to a state or any subdivision of a state or a judgment entered in a state, if the court in which the judgment was entered had jurisdiction over the subject matter. However, nonpayment shall not be a ground until sixty days after a good faith effort by the insurer to contest the obligation has been terminated whether the effort is before the commissioner or in the courts, or the insurer has systematically attempted to compromise or renegotiate previously agreed settlements with its creditors on the ground that it is financially unable to pay its obligations in full.
 k. The insurer has failed to file its annual report or other financial report required within the time allowed and, after written demand by the commissioner, has failed to immediately give an adequate explanation.
 l. The board of directors or the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, or a majority of those individuals entitled to the control of those entities request or consent to rehabilitation under this chapter.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 507C.12

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Board: means the engineering and land surveying examining board provided by this chapter. See Iowa Code 542B.2
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance and any successor in office. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • Control: means the same as defined in section 521A. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Insurer: means a person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by an insurance commissioner. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or conservator as the context requires. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • State: means a state, district, or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • Transaction: means a sale, trade, exchange, transfer, payment, or conversion of a digital asset or any other property or any other action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Iowa Code 554E.1
  • Transfer: shall include the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest in the property, or with the possession of the property or of fixing a lien upon the property or upon an interest in the property, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Iowa Code 507C.2
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
 2. If the petition alleges that extraordinary circumstances exist and that there is imminent substantial risk to the insurer’s solvency if the insurer is not immediately placed into rehabilitation, the court may issue, ex parte and without a hearing, the requested order of rehabilitation. An insurer subject to an ex parte order under this section may petition the court after the issuance of the order for a hearing and review of the order. The court shall hold the hearing and review not more than fifteen days after the request. A hearing under this section may be held privately in chambers. Upon the request of the insurer, the hearing shall be held privately in chambers.
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