Okla. Stat. tit. 36, § 36-1905
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Grounds for rehabilitation of domestic insurers
Official statutory text
The Insurance Commissioner may apply to the court for an order
appointing the Commissioner as receiver of and directing the
Commissioner to rehabilitate a domestic insurer upon one or more of
the following grounds. That the insurer:
1. Is impaired or insolvent.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 534
2. Is in a condition such that the continued operation would be
hazardous to the policyholders, the creditors of the insurer, or the
general public.
3. Has refused to submit its books, records, accounts or
affairs to reasonable examination by the Insurance Commissioner.
4. Has failed to comply with an order of the Insurance
Commissioner to make good an impairment of capital or surplus or
both.
5. Has transferred or attempted to transfer substantially its
entire property or business, or has entered into any transaction the
effect of which is to merge substantially its entire property or
business in that of any other insurer without having first obtained
the written approval of the Insurance Commissioner.
6. Has willfully violated its charter or any law of this state.
7. Has an officer, director, or manager who has refused to be
examined under oath concerning its affairs, for which purpose the
Insurance Commissioner is hereby authorized to conduct and to
enforce by all appropriate and available means any such examination
under oath in any other state or territory of the United States, in
which any such officer, director, or manager may then presently be,
to the full extent permitted by the laws of such other state or
territory, this special authorization considered.
8. Has been the subject of an application for the appointment
of a receiver, trustee, custodian, or sequestrator of the insurer or
its property otherwise pursuant to the provisions of this code, but
only if such appointment has been made or is imminent and its effect
is or would be to oust the courts of this state of jurisdiction
hereunder.
9. Has consented to such an order through a majority of its
directors, stockholders, members or subscribers.
10. Has failed to pay a final judgment rendered against it in
this state upon any insurance contract issued or assumed by it,
within thirty (30) days after the judgment became final or within
thirty (30) days after the time for taking an appeal has expired, or
within thirty (30) days after dismissal of an appeal before final
termination, whichever date is the later.
appointing the Commissioner as receiver of and directing the
Commissioner to rehabilitate a domestic insurer upon one or more of
the following grounds. That the insurer:
1. Is impaired or insolvent.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 36. Insurance Page 534
2. Is in a condition such that the continued operation would be
hazardous to the policyholders, the creditors of the insurer, or the
general public.
3. Has refused to submit its books, records, accounts or
affairs to reasonable examination by the Insurance Commissioner.
4. Has failed to comply with an order of the Insurance
Commissioner to make good an impairment of capital or surplus or
both.
5. Has transferred or attempted to transfer substantially its
entire property or business, or has entered into any transaction the
effect of which is to merge substantially its entire property or
business in that of any other insurer without having first obtained
the written approval of the Insurance Commissioner.
6. Has willfully violated its charter or any law of this state.
7. Has an officer, director, or manager who has refused to be
examined under oath concerning its affairs, for which purpose the
Insurance Commissioner is hereby authorized to conduct and to
enforce by all appropriate and available means any such examination
under oath in any other state or territory of the United States, in
which any such officer, director, or manager may then presently be,
to the full extent permitted by the laws of such other state or
territory, this special authorization considered.
8. Has been the subject of an application for the appointment
of a receiver, trustee, custodian, or sequestrator of the insurer or
its property otherwise pursuant to the provisions of this code, but
only if such appointment has been made or is imminent and its effect
is or would be to oust the courts of this state of jurisdiction
hereunder.
9. Has consented to such an order through a majority of its
directors, stockholders, members or subscribers.
10. Has failed to pay a final judgment rendered against it in
this state upon any insurance contract issued or assumed by it,
within thirty (30) days after the judgment became final or within
thirty (30) days after the time for taking an appeal has expired, or
within thirty (30) days after dismissal of an appeal before final
termination, whichever date is the later.
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