Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 3929 · 77 active provisions
(A) A domestic, foreign, or alien mutual or stock insurance company, other than a life insurance company, organized or admitted under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code or created by a special act or acts of the general assembly, or an attorney licensed under section 3931.10 of the Revised Code to make reciprocal or inter…
(A)(1) As a condition of the issuance of a certificate of authority to transact in this state any of the kinds of insurance set forth in divisions (A)(1) to (4), (6), (7), (10) to (13), (16), (17), (18), and (21) to (24) of section 3929.01 of the Revised Code, each stock insurance company shall have and maintain capita…
(A) Each insurance company authorized to transact business in this state, except any life insurance company, shall maintain reserves in at least all of the following amounts:(1) An amount that equals the unearned portions of the gross premiums charged on unexpired or unterminated risks and policies;(2) An amount that i…
(A) No insurer authorized to engage in the business of property and casualty insurance in this state under Chapter 3925., 3929., or 3941. of the Revised Code, and no reinsurer authorized to do business in this state, shall incur on any single risk, on behalf of or on account of any one person, a liability for either of…
An employee who recovers against his employer for injuries sustained while in the employ of his employer, and sustained because of the negligence of the employer or negligence for which said employer is liable, is subrogated to all the rights of the employer under any contract or policy of insurance against loss or dam…
In case of the death of any employee by reason of the wrongful or negligent acts of the employee's employer, or negligence or wrongful acts for which said employer is liable, the personal representative of the deceased employee has all the rights and remedies that the employee would have had under section 3929.03 of th…
Whenever a loss or damage occurs on account of a casualty covered by a contract of insurance made between an insurance company and any person, firm, or corporation, by which contract such person, firm, or corporation is insured against loss or damage on account of the bodily injury or death by accident of any person fo…
(A)(1) If a court in a civil action enters a final judgment that awards damages to a plaintiff for injury, death, or loss to the person or property of the plaintiff or another person for whom the plaintiff is a legal representative and if, at the time that the cause of action accrued against the judgment debtor, the ju…
An insurance company that is required by division (B) of section 3929.01 or section 3953.06 of the Revised Code to deposit fifty thousand dollars of bonds with the superintendent of insurance may, in lieu of that deposit, make a deposit of one hundred thousand dollars, in securities in which the company may invest its…
When any insurance company organized under the laws of this state is required by the retaliatory or other laws of any other state or district to make a deposit with the superintendent of insurance of this state, for the benefit of its policyholders, as a condition to the right of such company to transact business in su…
Any deposit under sections 3929.07 and 3929.08 of the Revised Code shall be made and maintained in securities worth the amount of the required deposit; such securities may be exchanged from time to time for other securities of the prescribed character and worth the amount of the required deposit. So long as the company…
No company organized under the laws of this state to transact the business of guaranteeing the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, who are required to, or in their trust capacity do, receive, hold, control, or disburse public or private property, and to transact the business of guaranteeing t…
No guaranty company mentioned in section 3929.10 of the Revised Code organized under the laws of another state, territory, district, or country shall be licensed to transact such business in this state unless at least two hundred thousand dollars of its assets are invested in the securities permitted by sections 3925.0…
A company which executes a bond as surety under sections 3929.10 and 3929.11 of the Revised Code shall, in any proceeding to enforce the liability which it has assumed to incur, be estopped to deny its corporate power to execute such instrument or assume such liability.
When a bond, recognizance, or undertaking is required or permitted by law, with one or more sureties, its execution or the guaranteeing thereof, as sole surety, is sufficient if done by a company authorized to guarantee the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, to guarantee the performance of c…
(A) Any domestic or foreign insurance company that is authorized to transact surety business pursuant to division (A)(19) or (20) of section 3929.01 of the Revised Code, may, in any year, become surety in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars with respect to each of any guaranteed arrest bond certificates issued…
A judge, court, or officer, whose duty it is to pass upon the account of an assignee, trustee, receiver, guardian, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, required by law to give bond, whenever such fiduciary has given bond with a surety company as surety thereon in the settlement of his account as such fiduciary,…
Sections 3929.14 and 3929.15 of the Revised Code authorize such a guaranty company as is described therein to become surety upon the bond required by law of any state officer, except the superintendent of insurance, and of any county, township, or municipal officer. Such company may be accepted by the officers required…
The premium of any licensed surety company on the bond of any public officer, deputy, or employee shall be allowed and paid by the state, county, township, municipal corporation, or other subdivision, or board of education, of which such person giving the bond is such officer, deputy, or employee.
Any building insured by a mutual company must be pledged to such company, together with the right and title of the insured in the land upon which it is situated, to the amount of the premium note or contingent liability, and the company shall have a lien on such building and land to the amount of such note or liability…
A fire insurance company doing business under the laws of this state, which issues policies of insurance covering property located in this state, and on such policies receives from the persons insured either cash payments of premium, or notes subject to assessment for payment of losses, or notes for the installments of…
When a policy issued on the cash plan is canceled, in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy may retain customary short rates, as established and charged by companies doing a cash business, for the time the policy has been in force, and return to the insured the unearned pr…
When a policy issued on the mutual plan is canceled in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy must surrender to the insured the note received from him for premium or payment of losses. Such policy shall first be sent to the secretary or agent of the company, and, within six…
When a policy issued on the installment plan is canceled, in accordance with section 3929.19 of the Revised Code, the company issuing such policy may collect of the insured the customary short rates for the time the policy has been in force, said rates to be computed on the full term of insurance mentioned in the polic…
When it comes to the knowledge of the superintendent of insurance, or an officer having charge of the division of insurance, that any one of sections 3929.19 to 3929.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been violated, he shall at once make a thorough investigation in regard to it, and on sufficient proof of such vio…