2023 Delaware Code
Title 18 - Insurance Code
Chapter 59. REHABILITATION AND LIQUIDATION
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 5905. Grounds for rehabilitation; domestic insurers.
The 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, if the insurer:
(1) Is impaired or insolvent or is in unsound condition or in such condition or using such methods and practices in the conduct of its business as to render its further transaction of insurance presently or prospectively hazardous to its policyholders;
(2) Has refused to submit any of its books, records, accounts or affairs to reasonable examination by the Commissioner;
(3) Has concealed or removed records or assets;
(4) Has failed to comply with an order of the 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 Commissioner;
(6) Has wilfully violated its charter or certificate of incorporation 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 purposes the 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 or is the subject of an application for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or sequestrator of the insurer or its property otherwise than pursuant to the provisions of this title, 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 the directors, stockholders, members or subscribers; and
(10) Has failed to pay a final judgment rendered against it in this State upon any insurance contract issued or assumed by it within 30 days after the judgment became final or within 30 days after the time for taking an appeal has expired or within 30 days after dismissal of an appeal before final termination, whichever date is the later.