Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.7606

  • Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
  • merger: as used in this chapter , include a transaction in which an authorized insurer that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a controlling corporation, which need not be an insurer, distributes shares of the capital stock of the controlling corporation in merging another insurer into the subsidiary or in merging the subsidiary into another insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.7604
   When an insurer is consolidated or merged under the provisions of this chapter, the name of the insurer may be retained for a period of 5 years after the effective date of the consolidation or merger for the use of the resulting insurer and no other domestic or foreign insurer shall be authorized to do business under such name or any other name that closely resembles such name during the 5-year period.