2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A - Insurance Code
Article 42 - Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
Section 59A-42-2 - Purpose.

The purpose of the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act is to provide a mechanism to facilitate continuation of coverage and the payment of covered claims under certain insurance policies, to avoid excessive delay in payment and avoid financial loss to claimants or policyholders because of insolvency of an insurer, to assist in detection and prevention of insurer insolvencies and to provide an association to assess the cost of such protection among insurers.

History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 751; 2012, ch. 9, § 5.

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, after "The purpose of", deleted "this article" and added "the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act".

Temporary provisions. Laws 2012, ch. 9, § 21, provided that:

A. The accounts maintained pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law and in effect on July 1, 2012 shall continue in full force as the accounts maintained pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act, modified as necessary to comply with that act.

B. The life insurance guaranty association existing pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law on July 1, 2012 is the life and health insurance guaranty association organized pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act, subject to the provisions of that act.

C. The insurer members of the board of directors of the life insurance guaranty association serving pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law on July 1, 2012 shall serve as the insurer members of the board of directors of the life and health insurance guaranty association pursuant to the provisions of the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act.

D. The plan of operation in effect pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law on July 1, 2012 shall serve as the plan of operation required pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act, modified as necessary to comply with that act.

E. An action, including an assessment, or an obligation of the life insurance guaranty association, board of directors of the life insurance guaranty association or superintendent of insurance initiated or created but not completed pursuant to the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law prior to July 1, 2012, shall continue until completed pursuant to the provisions of the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Law.