33-3-1 License required
33-3-2 Qualifications for license
33-3-3 Prerequisites to issuance of charter for domestic insurer
33-3-4 Charter, documents and information to be filed
33-3-5b Capital and surplus requirements
33-3-6 Property and casualty, financial guaranty and mortgage guaranty insurers – Deposit requirements
33-3-7 Issuance of license to transact insurance; kinds of insurance authorized to be transacted
33-3-8 Expiration of license; renewal
33-3-9 Refusal to license
33-3-10 Mandatory refusal, revocation or suspension
33-3-11 Discretionary refusal, revocation or suspension; penalty in lieu thereof; reissuance
33-3-12 Deceptive, misleading or conflicting names of insurers
33-3-13 Fees and charges
33-3-14 Annual financial statement and premium tax return; remittance by insurer of premium tax, less certain deductions; special revenue funds created
33-3-14a Additional premium tax
33-3-14b Credits against premium tax for investment in West Virginia securities
33-3-14c Computation and payment of tax
33-3-14d Additional fire and casualty insurance premium tax; allocation of proceeds; effective date
33-3-15 Annuity tax
33-3-16 Retaliation
33-3-17 Minimum tax payable
33-3-33 Surcharge on fire and casualty insurance policies to benefit volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments; Public Employees Insurance Agency and municipal pension plans; special fund created; allocation of proceeds; effective date
33-3-33a Excess moneys of Fire Protection Fund deposited into Volunteer Fire Department Workers’ Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund; other funding; special report from State Fire Marshal by December 15, 2015; termination of program June 30, 2022
33-3-33b Report regarding volunteer firefighter workers’ compensation coverage
33-3-14e Use of insurance premium tax proceeds to support health sciences and medical schools

Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 33 > Article 3 - Licensing, Fees and Taxation of Insurers

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing, engraving, writing, or otherwise. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Judgment: includes decrees and orders for the payment of money, or the conveyance or delivery of land or personal property, or some interest therein, or any undertaking, bond or recognizance which has the legal effect of a judgment. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • oath: shall be deemed to include an affirmation and the word "swear" or "sworn" to be complied with if the person referred to make solemn affirmation. See West Virginia Code 2-2-7
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.