2015 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 24. INSURANCE
431. Insurance Code
431:4F-107 Additional requirements for United States branch license.

[§431:4F-107] Additional requirements for United States branch license. (a) Before issuing any new or renewal license to any United States branch, the commissioner may require satisfactory proof, either in the alien insurer's charter or by an agreement evidenced by a duly certified resolution of its board of directors, or otherwise as the commissioner may require, that the insurer will not engage in any insurance business in contravention of this section or not authorized by its charter.

(b) The commissioner shall issue a renewal license to any United States branch if satisfied, by such proof as required, that the insurer is not delinquent with respect to any requirement imposed by this chapter and that its continuance in business in this State will not be hazardous or prejudicial to the best interests of the people of this State.

(c) No United States branch shall be licensed to do any kind of insurance business in this State, or any combination of kinds of insurance business, that are not permitted to be done by domestic insurers licensed under this chapter. No United States branch shall be authorized to do an insurance business in this State if it does anywhere within the United States any kind of business other than an insurance business and the business necessarily or properly incidental to the kind or kinds of insurance business that it is authorized to do in this State.

(d) Except as otherwise specifically provided, no United States branch, entering through this State or another state, shall be or continue to be authorized to do an insurance business in this State if it fails to comply substantially with any requirement or limitation of this chapter, applicable to similar domestic insurers hereafter organized, which in the judgment of the commissioner is reasonably necessary to protect the interest of the policyholders.

(e) No United States branch that, outside of this State, does any kind or combination of kinds of insurance business not permitted to be done in this State by similar domestic insurers hereafter organized, shall be or continue to be authorized to do an insurance business in this State, unless in the judgment of the commissioner the doing of that kind or combination of kinds of insurance business will not be prejudicial to the best interests of the people of this State.

(f) No United States branch shall be or continue to be authorized to do an insurance business in this State if it fails to keep full and correct entries of its transactions, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of persons invested by law with the rights of inspection and be maintained in its principal office within this State. [L 2004, c 120, pt of §2]