Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-23-90

  • Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
§§ 38-23-40 to 38-23-60 do not apply to equity securities of a domestic stock insurer if (a) the securities are registered or are required to be registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or (b) the domestic stock insurer does not have any class of its equity securities held of record by one hundred or more persons on the last business day of the previous year in which equity securities of the insurer would be subject to §§ 38-23-40 to 38-23-60 except for this section.