Code of Alabama
Article 2 - Fire, etc., and Inland Marine Insurance.
Section 27-13-25 - Rating Organizations - Provisions for Insurers to Become Members or Subscribers.

Every rating organization shall make reasonable provision in its bylaws, rules, constitution, or otherwise to permit any insurer engaged in the kind of insurance for which rate-making is done by such rating organization to become a member or subscriber thereof upon application therefor by such insurer. An insurer may be a member of, or a subscriber to, more than one rating organization, but not for the purpose of rating the same risk. No insurer shall use any rate or rating systems made by a rating organization of which it is not a member or subscriber or by another insurer. No rating organization shall discriminate unfairly between insurers in the conditions imposed for admission as subscribers or in the services rendered to either members or subscribers. The refusal of any rating organization to admit an insurer as a subscriber shall, at the request of such insurer, be reviewed by the commissioner at a hearing held upon at least 10 days' notice to such rating organization and such insurer. If the commissioner shall find that the insurer has been refused admittance to such rating organization as a subscriber without justification, he shall make an order directing such rating organization to admit such insurer as a subscriber. If he shall find that the action of the rating organization in refusing admittance to an insurer as a subscriber is justified, he shall make an order affirming its action.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 27 - Insurance.

Chapter 13 - Rates and Rating Organizations.

Article 2 - Fire, etc., and Inland Marine Insurance.

Section 27-13-20 - Definitions.

Section 27-13-21 - Applicability of Article - Generally.

Section 27-13-22 - Applicability of Article - Inland Marine Insurance.

Section 27-13-23 - Applicability of Article - Exemptions.

Section 27-13-24 - Rating Organizations - License; Application Therefor; Renewal Thereof; Fee for Same.

Section 27-13-25 - Rating Organizations - Provisions for Insurers to Become Members or Subscribers.

Section 27-13-26 - Rating Organizations - Withdrawal, Expulsion, and Readmission of Members or Subscribers.

Section 27-13-27 - Rate-Making and Making Rating Systems.

Section 27-13-28 - Annual Statistical Reports of Insurers.

Section 27-13-29 - Filing of Rating Systems With Department by Insurers - Requirement.

Section 27-13-30 - Filing of Rating Systems With Department by Insurers - Examination and Approval or Disapproval by Commissioner.

Section 27-13-31 - Survey of Risks Rated Upon Schedule.

Section 27-13-32 - Hearings on Applications to Reduce Rates.

Section 27-13-33 - Applications for Uniform Percentage Increase or Decrease of Rates by Insurers.

Section 27-13-34 - Approval of Rates and Forms for Insuring Special Types or Classes of Risks.

Section 27-13-35 - Factors to Be Considered by Commissioner in Determining Reasonableness, etc., of Rates.

Section 27-13-36 - Examination of Business, etc., of Rating Organizations and Insurers Making Own Rates.

Section 27-13-37 - Alteration, Supplementation, and Amendment of Rating Systems.

Section 27-13-38 - Prohibition Against Premiums Not in Accord With Approved Rating Systems.

Section 27-13-39 - False or Misleading Information Concerning Rates.

Section 27-13-40 - Suspension of License or Certificate of Authority.

Section 27-13-41 - Order Revoking or Suspending Licenses.

Section 27-13-42 - Notices, Hearings, and Orders by Commissioner.

Section 27-13-43 - Review of Final Orders of Commissioner.

Section 27-13-44 - Delegation of Authority by Commissioner.

Section 27-13-45 - Penalty for Violation of Article.