Illinois Compiled Statutes
215 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Insurance Code.
Article XXII - Casualty Insurance, Fidelity Bonds And Surety Contracts

(215 ILCS 5/Art. XXII heading)

 
(215 ILCS 5/378) (from Ch. 73, par. 990)
Sec. 378.

Scope of
article.
This article shall apply to all companies authorized in this State to
transact the kind or kinds of business enumerated in Class 2 of section
4.
Every such company shall, at all times, maintain reserves in an amount
estimated in the aggregate to provide for the payment of all losses and
claims incurred, whether reported or unreported, which are unpaid and for
which such company may be liable, and to provide for the expenses of
adjustment or settlement of such losses and claims. Such reserves shall be
computed in accordance with regulations made from time to time by the
Director after notice and hearing, upon reasonable consideration of the
ascertained experience and the character of such kinds of business for the
purpose of adequately protecting the insured and securing the solvency of
such company.
Whenever the loss and loss expense experience of such company shows the
reserves, calculated in accordance with such regulations, to be inadequate,
the Director may require such company to maintain additional reserves.
Each company that writes liability or compensation policies shall
include in the annual statement required by law, a schedule of its
experience thereunder in such form as the Director may prescribe.

(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1812.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/379.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 991.1)
Sec. 379.1.
Unearned premium reserve.
Every insurance company authorized to transact in this State any of the
kind or kinds of business enumerated in Class 2 of Section 4 except
accident and health insurance shall maintain an unearned premium reserve on
all policies and bonds in force which shall be calculated in the manner
described in Section 393.1 of this Code.

(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1745.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000)
Sec. 388.
Standard provision for liability policies - Provisions forbidden.
No policy of insurance against liability or indemnity for loss or damage
to any person other than the insured, or to the property of any person
other than the insured, for which any insured is liable, shall be issued or
delivered in this State after July 1, 1937, by any
company subject to this Article unless it contains in substance a provision
that the insolvency or bankruptcy of the insured shall not release the
company from the payment of damages for injuries sustained or death
resulting therefrom, or loss occasioned during the term of such policy, and
stating that in case a certified copy of a judgment against the
insured is returned unsatisfied
in any action brought by the injured person or his or her personal
representative in case death results from the accident because of such
insolvency or bankruptcy, then an action may be maintained by the injured
person or his or her personal representative against such company under the
terms of the policy and subject to all of the conditions thereof for the
amount of the judgment in such action not exceeding the amount of the
policy.
No policy of insurance against liability or indemnity for loss or damage
arising as a result of the operation of Section 6-21 of "An Act
relating to alcoholic liquors", approved January 31, 1934, as amended,
shall contain a provision or provisions which exempt the company from
liability if the damage sustained was the result of the sale or giving away
of alcoholic liquor to a minor.

(Source: P.A. 84-546.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388-1) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000-1)
Sec. 388-1.

No company selling insurance defined in clause (b) of class 2 of
Section 4 may require a policyholder to take a physical examination as a
condition for renewal of such policy if the policyholder has been
insured by the company for 5 years or longer, unless the company pays
the cost of such physical examination, and the physical examination is
given by a physician chosen by the policyholder.

(Source: P.A. 78-703.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388a) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000a)
Sec. 388a.

Group
vehicle insurance defined.
(a) Group vehicle insurance is declared to be that form of vehicle
insurance
covering not less than 10 employees, members, or employees of members,
written under a master policy issued to any governmental corporation, unit,
agency or department thereof, or to any corporation, co-partnership,
individual employer, or to any association upon application of an executive
officer or trustee of such association having a constitution or by-laws and
formed in good faith for purposes other than that of obtaining insurance,
where officers, members, employees, employees of members or classes or
department thereof, may be insured for their individual benefit. In
addition a group vehicle policy may be written to insure any group which
may be insured under a group life insurance policy. The term "employees"
shall include the officers, managers and employees of subsidiary or
affiliated corporations, and the individual proprietors, partners and
employees of affiliated individuals and firms, when the business of such
subsidiary or affiliated corporations, firms or individuals, is controlled
by a common employer through stock ownership, contract or otherwise.
(b) A group vehicle insurance policy may provide physical damage coverage,
liability coverage, or a combination of physical damage and
liability
coverage. A group
physical damage policy and a certificate incidental to that policy, issued
in accordance with this Section, does not meet the mandatory insurance
requirements under the Illinois Vehicle Code and must contain a warning to the
consumer
that the policy does not comply with those requirements.

(Source: P.A. 88-313.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388b) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000b)
Sec. 388b.

Group
vehicle insurance authorized.
Any insurance company authorized to write vehicle insurance in this
State, as authorized by clause (b) of Class 2 and clause (e) of Class 3 of
Section 4, shall have
power to issue group vehicle policies. Group vehicle insurance policies
shall be subject to the filing requirements of Section 143 and shall include
the provisions required by Sections 388c through 388f of this Code. A group
vehicle insurance policy that provides liability coverage shall comply with the
requirements of Section 7-317 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.

(Source: P.A. 88-313.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388c) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000c)
Sec. 388c.

"Entire
contract" specified.
Each group vehicle insurance policy shall provide that the policy, the
application of the employer, or executive officer or trustee of any
association, and the individual applications, if any, of the employees,
members or employees of members insured shall constitute the entire
contract between the parties, and that all statements made by the employer,
or the executive officer or trustee, or by the individual employees,
members or employees of members shall, in the absence of fraud, be deemed
representations and not warranties, and that no such statement shall be
used in defense to a claim under the policy, unless it is contained in a
written application.

(Source: P.A. 77-1576.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388d) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000d)
Sec. 388d.
Certificates required.
Each group vehicle insurance policy shall provide that the insurer will
issue to the employer, or to the executive officer or trustee of the
association, for delivery to the employee, member or employee of a member,
who is insured under such policy, an individual certificate setting forth a
statement as to the insurance protection to which he is entitled and to
whom payable and, at the request of any participating member or employee
that has liability insurance coverage, will issue a certificate of his
vehicle
insurance to the Secretary of State
as proof of the insured's financial
responsibility in compliance with the Illinois Vehicle Code.

(Source: P.A. 88-313.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388e) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000e)
Sec. 388e.

New
members of group.
Each group vehicle insurance policy shall provide that to the group or
class thereof originally insured shall be added from time to time all new
employees of the employer, members of the association or employees of
members eligible to and applying for insurance in such group or class but
participation in the group plan shall not be required as a condition of
employment, nor shall any member not participating in the plan be coerced
or discriminated against.

(Source: P.A. 77-1576.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388f) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000f)
Sec. 388f.
Conversion rights.
Each group vehicle insurance policy shall provide that any member of the
group shall have the right to convert his group policy to an individual
standard policy of insurance in the same company as offered by the insurer
to the non-group insureds upon termination of his connection with the group
extending to him the same limits of coverage.

(Source: P.A. 77-1576.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/388g) (from Ch. 73, par. 1000g)
Sec. 388g.
Cancellation restricted.
An insurer may not cancel the insurance of an individual member of a
group covered by a group vehicle insurance policy except for the
non-payment of premium by such member or unless the insurance for the
entire group is cancelled. In such cases notice of cancellation as provided
in like non-group policies shall be given to each member and, when
appropriate, to the Secretary of State.

(Source: P.A. 77-1576.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/389) (from Ch. 73, par. 1001)
Sec. 389.
Definition.
Fidelity and surety business specified in paragraph (g) of Class 2 of
section 4 shall be known as surety business, and the obligations
connected therewith as suretyship obligations notwithstanding any other
designation or classification contained in this Code to the contrary.

(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/390) (from Ch. 73, par. 1002)
Sec. 390.
Corporate bonds satisfy legal requirement.
Whenever a bond, undertaking, recognizance, guaranty or other
obligation is required, permitted, authorized or allowed; or whenever
the performance of any act, duty or obligation, or forbearance, is
required, permitted, authorized or allowed to be secured or guaranteed,
such bond, undertaking, recognizance or other obligation, or such
security or guaranty, may be executed by a company authorized in this
State to do the kinds of business described in clause (g) of Class 2 of
section 4; and such companies are authorized and empowered to execute all
such instruments; and in case two or more of such companies execute any
such instrument each of such companies is hereby authorized and
empowered to limit its liability therein to an amount less than the
aggregate penalty of such instrument and also to limit its liability to
a pro rata part of any and all losses under such instrument; and the
execution by any such company of such bond, undertaking, recognizance,
guaranty or other obligation by an officer, attorney-in-fact or other
authorized representative shall be sufficient and be accepted as and be
a full compliance with every law or other requirement now in force or
that may hereafter be enacted or made that such bond, undertaking,
recognizance, guaranty or like obligation be required or permitted or be
executed by a surety or sureties, or that such surety or sureties be
residents, householders or owners or life tenants of real estate,
or possess any other qualifications.

(Source: P.A. 84-551.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/391) (from Ch. 73, par. 1003)
Sec. 391.
Trustee may have corporate surety.
A party of whom a bond or
other undertaking is required or permitted or by law allowed may agree with
his sureties for the deposit or safekeeping of any or all moneys, assets
and other property for which he, she or it is or may be held responsible,
with a bank, savings bank, safe deposit, savings and loan association or
trust company authorized by law to do business as such, and in such manner
as to prevent the withdrawal
or alienation thereof without the written consent of such sureties or an
order of the court having jurisdiction of such fiduciary made on such notice
to such sureties as such court may direct. It shall be lawful for such sureties
to enter into contracts for their indemnity or security with any person, partnership,
association or corporation, provided that such contracts are not prohibited
by law or against public policy.

(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/392) (from Ch. 73, par. 1004)
Sec. 392.
Estoppel.
Any company which shall execute any bond, recognizance, obligation,
stipulation or undertaking as surety shall be estopped, in any proceeding
to enforce the liability which it shall have assumed to incur, to deny its
power to execute the same or assume such liability.

(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)
 
(215 ILCS 5/392.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 1004.1)
Sec. 392.1.
Casualty and surety companies exempted from filing appeal bonds upon proof of liability - Taxable costs.
Whenever an appeal is taken from any judgment in any case wherein it
appears to the court that all of the particular liability of the
appellant thereunder is insured against in and by a liability insurance
policy or surety bond issued by any insurance company authorized to do
business in the State of Illinois, and the court is satisfied of the
applicable coverage of such policy or bond, it shall not be required of the
appellant to provide any appeal bond or bond to stay enforcement pending such
appeal, but such insurance company may be required by the court, and is
hereby given authority, to execute its written recognizance of the adverse
party or parties for the payment of the taxable costs of such appeal.
Such company shall deposit with the court a copy of the
insurance policy or bond and shall admit its liability thereunder, and
agree to pay such judgment against its insured, if any, as shall be
affirmed by the appellate court; and in such case the court having
jurisdiction thereof, on its own motion, may enter judgment against the
insurance company to such extent without further proceedings.

(Source: P.A. 84-546.)

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