2020 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 3 - Insurance
Chapter 68 - Rehabilitation and Liquidation of Insurance Companies
§ 23-68-105. Injunctions — Commissioner as party to suits

(1) Upon application by the Insurance Commissioner for such an order to show cause, or at any time thereafter, the court may without notice issue an injunction restraining the insurer, its officers, directors, stockholders, members, subscribers, agents, and all other persons from the transaction of its business or the waste or disposition of its property until the further order of the court.

(2) The court may at any time during a proceeding under this chapter issue such other injunctions or orders as may be deemed necessary to prevent interference with the commissioner or the proceeding, or waste of the assets of the insurer, or the commencement or prosecution of any actions, or the obtaining of preferences, judgments, attachments or other liens, or the making of any levy against the insurer or against its assets or any part thereof.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no bond shall be required of the commissioner as a prerequisite for the issuance of any injunction or restraining order pursuant to this section.

(4) No judgment or order rendered by any court of this state in any action pending by or against the delinquent insurer after the commencement of delinquency proceedings shall be binding upon the commissioner unless the commissioner shall have been made a party to such suit.

(5) The commissioner shall not be required to plead any suit in which he or she may be a proper party plaintiff or defendant in any of the courts of this state until ninety (90) days after the date of his or her appointment as receiver.