2018 Code of Alabama
Title 27 - INSURANCE.
Chapter 3 - AUTHORIZATION OF INSURERS.
Section 27-3-15 - Deposit requirements - Alien insurers - Trusteed assets.
(a) In order to comply with the requirements of Section 27-3-14, an alien insurer shall appoint citizens of the United States of America or public depositaries or trust institutions located in the United States, all as approved by the commissioner, as trustee, or trustees, to hold its funds and assets in trust for the benefit of its policyholders or policyholders and creditors in the United States. Any such trustee, or trustees, shall be named by the board of directors or comparable directive body of the insurer, and a certified copy of the record of the appointment and of the deed of trust shall be filed with the commissioner.
(b) Funds and assets so held, to the extent that they consist of cash, securities and other assets of the same general character as are eligible for the investment of like funds of a domestic insurer, under Sections 27-1-8 and 27-1-9, shall constitute the assets of the insurer for the purposes of this title.
(c) Such trustees and assets, and all accounts and records relating thereto, shall be subject to examination by the commissioner in the same manner as the officers, agents, assets and affairs of insurers.
(d) Trusteed assets of an alien insurer using this state as its state of entry into the United States shall be subject to Chapter 32 of this title.
(Code 1940, T. 28, §69; Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §60.)
