Kansas Statutes 40-2703. Violation of act; action to enjoin or restrain acts; jurisdiction
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-2703
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- insurer: means and includes all corporations, companies, associations, societies, fraternal benefit societies, mutual nonprofit hospital service and nonprofit medical service companies, partnerships and persons engaged as principals in the business of insurance of the kinds enumerated in articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 18, 19, 19a, 19b, 19c, 22, 32 and 38 ofchapter 40 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and any amendments thereto, insofar as the business of insurance of the kinds enumerated in such articles relate to life and accident or sickness. See Kansas Statutes 40-2702
- 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.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
Whenever the commissioner of insurance believes, from evidence satisfactory to him, that any insurer is violating or about to violate the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-2702, the commissioner of insurance may, through the attorney general of this state, cause a complaint to be filed in a district court of proper venue to enjoin and restrain such insurer from continuing such violation or engaging therein or doing any act in furtherance thereof. Said district court shall have jurisdiction of any such proceeding and shall have the power to make and enter an order or judgment awarding such preliminary or final injunctive relief as in its judgment is proper.