2018 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 36. Insurance
§36-5103. License required - Refusal to issue - Exemption.

A. No person, firm, association or corporation shall act as an RB in this state if the RB maintains an office either directly or as a member or employee of a firm or association, or an officer, director or employee of a corporation:

1. In this state, unless the RB is a licensed producer in this state; or

2. In another state, unless the RB is a licensed producer in this state or another state having a law substantially similar to this law or the RB is licensed in this state as a nonresident reinsurance intermediary.

B. No person, firm, association or corporation shall act as an RM:

1. For a reinsurer domiciled in this state, unless the RM is a licensed producer in this state;

2. In this state, if the RM maintains an office either directly or as a member or employee of a firm or association, or an officer, director or employee of a corporation in this state, unless the RM is a licensed producer in this state; or

3. In another state for a nondomestic insurer, unless the RM is a licensed producer in this state or another state having a law substantially similar to this law or the person is licensed in this state as a nonresident reinsurance intermediary.

C. The Insurance Commissioner may require an RM subject to the provisions of subsection B of this section to:

1. File a bond in an amount from an insurer acceptable to the Commissioner for the protection of the reinsurer; and

2. Maintain an errors and omissions policy in an amount acceptable to the Commissioner.

D. 1. The Commissioner may issue a reinsurance intermediary license to any person, firm, association or corporation who has complied with the requirements of the Reinsurance Intermediary Act. Any license issued to a firm or association shall authorize all the members of the firm or association and any designated employees to act as reinsurance intermediaries pursuant to the license, and all such persons shall be named in the application and any supplements thereto. Any license issued to a corporation shall authorize all of the officers, and any designated employees and directors thereof to act as reinsurance intermediaries on behalf of the corporation, and all such persons shall be named in the application and any supplements thereto.

2. If the applicant for a reinsurance intermediary license is a nonresident, the applicant, as a condition precedent to receiving or holding a license, shall designate the Commissioner as agent for service of process in the manner, and with the same legal effect, provided for by the Reinsurance Intermediary Act for designation of service of process upon surplus lines insurers; and also shall furnish the Commissioner with the name and address of a resident of this state upon whom notices or orders of the Commissioner or process affecting the nonresident reinsurance intermediary may be served. The licensee shall promptly notify the Commissioner in writing of every change in its designated agent for service of process, and such change shall not become effective until acknowledged by the Commissioner.

E. The Commissioner may refuse to issue a reinsurance intermediary license if, in the judgment of the Commissioner, the applicant, any one named on the application, or any member, principal, officer or director of the applicant, or that any controlling person of such applicant, is not trustworthy to act as a reinsurance intermediary, or that any of the foregoing has given cause for revocation or suspension of such license, or has failed to comply with any prerequisite for the issuance of such license. Upon written request therefor, the Commissioner shall furnish a summary of the basis for refusal to issue a license, which document shall be privileged and not subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

F. Licensed attorneys-at-law of this state when acting in their professional capacity as attorneys shall be exempt from this section.

G. Licenses issued by the Commissioner pursuant to this section shall be issued for a period of twenty-four (24) months. The license shall not be issued unless the application for the license is accompanied by a license fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). The license shall not be renewed unless the renewal application for the license is accompanied by a renewal fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).

Added by Laws 1992, c. 178, § 24, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2001, c. 156, § 33, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2010, c. 222, § 28, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.