The commissioner may apply by petition to the circuit court for Ingham county for an order authorizing the commissioner to rehabilitate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state on 1 or more of the following grounds:
  (a) The insurer is in such condition that the further transaction of business would be hazardous financially to its policyholders, creditors, or the public.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.8112

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • 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: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or conservator as the context requires. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • State: means a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • 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 property or with the possession of property or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest in property, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Michigan Laws 500.8103
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  (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 insurer’s solvency.
  (c) The insurer has failed to remove a person who in fact has executive authority with the insurer, whether an officer, manager, general agent, employee, or other person, 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, whether by stock ownership or otherwise, and whether direct or indirect, is in a person or persons found after notice and hearing to be untrustworthy.
  (e) A person who in fact has executive authority with 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 its affairs, whether 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 of his or her influence on management.
  (f) After demand by the commissioner, the insurer has failed to promptly make available for examination 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 with the insurer and pertaining to the insurer.
  (g) Without first obtaining the commissioner’s written consent, the insurer has transferred, or attempted to transfer, in a manner contrary to law, 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 or a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, or sequestrator or similar fiduciary of the insurer or its property otherwise than as authorized under the insurance laws of this state, and the appointment has been made or is imminent, and the appointment may deny the courts of this state of jurisdiction or might prejudice orderly delinquency proceedings under this chapter.
  (i) Within the previous 4 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 8109.
  (j) The insurer has failed to pay within 60 days after due date an obligation to a state or a 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 60 days after a good faith effort by the insurer to contest the obligation has been terminated, whether it is before the commissioner or the court, 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 by statute within the time allowed by law and, after written demand by the commissioner, has failed to give immediately an adequate explanation.
  (l) The board of directors or the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote request or consent to rehabilitation under this chapter.
  (m) Is found, after examination, to be in a condition so that it could not presently meet the requirements for incorporation and authorization.
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