2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.632 Insurers; reinsurance; authorization.

Sec. 632.

(1) Every insurer shall be entitled to reinsure any risk authorized to be undertaken by it, and to grant reinsurance upon any similar risk undertaken by any other insurer.

(2) Subject to chapter 58, any mutual insurance company other than life may, by policy, treaty, or other agreement, cede to or accept from any insurance company or insurer reinsurance upon the whole or any part of any risk, which reinsurance shall be without contingent liability or participation or membership unless provided otherwise. Reinsurance shall not be effected with any company or insurer disapproved by written order of the commissioner filed in his or her office.

(3) An insurer authorized to transact multiple lines of insurance may, except with respect to policies of life and endowment insurance and contracts for the payment of annuities and pure endowments, reinsure risks of every kind or description.

(4) Reinsurance shall not be ceded to or accepted by any insurer operating under the cooperative or assessment plan. Reinsurance of any insurer operating under the cooperative or assessment plan shall be ceded only to insurers authorized under this act to transact a similar kind of insurance in this state and to accept reinsurance.

(5) An insurer may be specifically authorized to accept reinsurance for kinds of risks that it does not have authority to insure directly.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 53, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963 ;-- Am. 1966, Act 221, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 226, Imd. Eff. June 27, 1994
Popular Name: Act 218