2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 41 - INSURANCE
Chapter 48 - RISK RETENTION GROUPS
Section 41-4805 - RISK RETENTION GROUPS NOT CHARTERED IN THIS STATE.
(1) Before transacting any insurance business or offering any insurance policies in this state, a risk retention group shall submit to the director of this state:
(2) Any risk retention group doing business in this state shall submit the following financial information to the director:
(3) All risk retention groups operating in this state, and all premiums paid for any coverage within this state to any risk retention group, shall be subject to the same premium tax provisions, including any interest, fines, and penalties for nonpayment, as are applicable to foreign admitted insurers. To the extent any agents or brokers are utilized, they shall report and pay the taxes for the premiums for risks which they have placed with or on behalf of any risk retention group not chartered in this state. To the extent any agents or brokers are not utilized, or agents or brokers that are utilized fail to pay said premium tax, each risk retention group shall pay the tax for risks insured within the state. Further, each risk retention group shall report to the director all premiums paid to it for risks insured within this state.
(4) Any risk retention groups and its agents and representatives are subject to and shall comply with the provisions of section 41-1329, Idaho Code (unfair claim settlement practices).
(5) Any risk retention group formed in this state shall comply with and be subject to chapter 13, title 41, Idaho Code (trade practices and frauds). The director may issue orders enjoining prohibited practices in accordance with section 41-213, Idaho Code, or section 41-1321, Idaho Code, or may apply directly to the district court for Ada county, state of Idaho, for such injunctive relief as he deems appropriate.
(6) Any risk retention group must submit to an examination by the director of this state to allow him to determine the group's financial condition if the director of the jurisdiction in which the group is chartered has not initiated an examination or does not initiate an examination within sixty (60) days after a request by the director of this state. Any such examination shall be coordinated to avoid unjustified repetition or duplication and shall be conducted in an expeditious manner.
(7) Any policy issued by a risk retention group shall contain in 10 point or larger type on the front page and the declaration page, the following notice:
(8) In addition to other restrictions that may be applicable, the following acts by a risk retention group are hereby prohibited:
(9) No risk retention group shall be allowed to do business in this state if an insurance company is directly or indirectly a member or owner of such risk retention group, other than in the case of a risk retention group whose members are all insurance companies.
(10) No risk retention group may offer any insurance policy or insurance coverage that has been declared unlawful by the Idaho supreme court or is in conflict with chapter 5 or chapter 25, title 41, Idaho Code.
(11) A risk retention group not chartered in this state and doing business in this state must comply with a lawful order issued in a voluntary dissolution proceeding or in a delinquency proceeding commenced by another state's insurance director if there has been a finding of financial impairment after an examination pursuant to subsection (6) of this section.
History:
[41-4805, added 1987, ch. 140, sec. 1, p. 278; am. 2005, ch. 78, sec. 5, p. 273.]
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