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304.24-230 Levy of contingent liability.
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If at any time the assets of a domestic mutual insurer are less than its liabilities
and the minimum amount of surplus required to be maintained by it under this
code for authority to transact the kinds of insurance being transacted, and the
deficiency is not cured from other sources, its directors may, if the same is
approved by the commissioner, levy an assessment only on its members who
held policies providing for contingent liability at any time within the twelve (12)
months next preceding the date the levy was authorized by the board of
directors, and such members shall be liable to the insurer for the amount so
assessed.
The levy of assessment shall be for such an amount, subject to the
commissioner's approval, as is required to cure such deficiency and to provide
a reasonable amount of working funds above such minimum amount of
surplus, but such working funds so provided shall not exceed five percent (5%)
of the sum of the insurer's liabilities and such minimum required surplus as of
the date of the levy.
As to the respective policies subject to the levy, the assessment shall be
computed upon such reasonable basis as may be approved by the
commissioner in writing in advance of the levy.
No member shall have an offset against any assessment for which he or she is
liable, on account of any claim for unearned premium or loss payable.
As to life insurance, any part of such assessment upon a member which
remains unpaid following notice of assessment, demand for payment, and
lapse of a reasonable waiting period as specified in such notice, may, if
approved by the commissioner as being in the best interests of the insurer and
its members, be secured by placing a lien upon the cash surrender values and
accumulated dividends held by the insurer to the credit of the member.
Effective:July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1334, effective July 15, 2010. -Created 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 301, subtit. 24, sec. 23, effective June 18, 1970.
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