Sec. 1. The commissioner may apply by petition to the Marion County circuit court for an order authorizing him to rehabilitate a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in Indiana on any one (1) of the following grounds:
(1) The insurer is in a condition that the further transaction of business would be hazardous, financially, to its policyholders, creditors, or the public.
(2) There is reasonable cause to believe that there has been embezzlement from the insurer, wrongful sequestration or diversion of the insurer's assets, forgery or fraud affecting the insurer, or other illegal conduct in, by, or with respect to the insurer that if established would endanger assets in an amount threatening the solvency of the insurer.
(3) The insurer has failed to remove any person who in fact has executive authority in the insurer, whether an officer, manager, general agent, employee, or other person, if the person has been found after notice and hearing by the commissioner under IC 4-21.5-3 to be dishonest or untrustworthy in a way affecting the insurer's business.
(4) Control of the insurer, whether by stock ownership or otherwise, and whether direct or indirect, is in a person found after notice and hearing under IC 4-21.5-3 to be untrustworthy.
(5) Any person who in fact has executive authority in the insurer, whether an officer, manager, general agent, director or trustee, employee, or other person, has refused to be examined under oath by the commissioner concerning its affairs, whether in Indiana or elsewhere, and after reasonable notice of the fact the insurer has failed promptly and effectively to terminate the employment and status of the person and all his influence on management.
(6) After demand by the commissioner under this article or IC 27-1-3, the insurer has failed to promptly make available for examination any of its own property, books, accounts, documents, or other records, or those of any subsidiary or related company within the control of the insurer, or those of any person having executive authority in the insurer so far as they concern the insurer.
(7) Without first obtaining the written consent of the commissioner, the insurer has transferred, or attempted to transfer, in a manner contrary to IC 27-1-23 or IC 27-6, substantially all of its entire property or business, or has entered into any transaction the effect of which is to merge, consolidate, or reinsure substantially its entire property or business in or with the property or business of any other person.
(8) The insurer or its property has been or is the subject of an application for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, or sequestrator or similar fiduciary of the insurer or its property otherwise than as authorized under this title, and the appointment has been made or is imminent, and the appointment might:
(A) remove the insurer from the jurisdiction of the Indiana courts; or
(B) prejudice orderly delinquency proceedings under this article.
(9) Within the previous four (4) years the insurer has willfully violated its charter or articles of incorporation, its bylaws, this title, or any valid order of the commissioner under IC 27-9-2-1.
(10) The insurer has failed to pay within sixty (60) days after the due date any obligation to any state or any political subdivision of any state or any judgment entered in any state, if the court in which the judgment was entered had jurisdiction over the subject matter. However, nonpayment shall not be a ground until sixty (60) days after any good faith effort by the insurer to contest the obligation has been terminated, whether it is before the commissioner or in the courts, or the insurer has systematically attempted to compromise or renegotiate previously agreed settlements with its creditors on the ground that it is financially unable to pay its obligations in full.
(11) The insurer has failed to file its annual report or other financial report required by law and, after written demand by the commissioner, has failed to immediately give an adequate explanation.
(12) The board of directors or the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, or a majority of those individuals entitled to the control of those entities, request or consent to rehabilitation under this article.
(13) The insurer is a mutual insurance holding company under IC 27-14 and a reorganized insurance company that is affiliated with the mutual insurance holding company and is or has been the subject of a petition for an order authorizing the commissioner to rehabilitate the reorganized insurance company under this section or to liquidate the reorganized insurance company under section 6 of this chapter, regardless of whether another basis exists for petitioning for rehabilitation of the mutual insurance holding company.
As added by Acts 1979, P.L.255, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.7-1987, SEC.156; P.L.5-2000, SEC.3.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 9. Supervision; Rehabilitation; Liquidation
27-9-3-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter
27-9-3-1. Petition to Rehabilitate Insurer
27-9-3-2. Order to Rehabilitate Insurer
27-9-3-3. Rehabilitator; Personnel; Term; Compensation; Powers; Plan
27-9-3-4. Pending Actions; Protection of Insurer After Rehabilitation Order
27-9-3-5. Petition for Liquidation; Termination of Rehabilitation
27-9-3-6. Basis for Liquidation
27-9-3-7. Order to Liquidate; Content; Effect; Declaration of Insolvency; Accounting
27-9-3-8. Termination of Insurance Coverage
27-9-3-9. Dissolution of Corporate Existence; Authorized Acts of Liquidator
27-9-3-10. Notice of Liquidation by Liquidator
27-9-3-11. Notice of Liquidation by Insurance Producers to Policyholders
27-9-3-12. Actions After Liquidation Orders
27-9-3-14. Transfers Made or Obligations Incurred as Fraudulent
27-9-3-15. Transfers After Petition; Validity
27-9-3-17. Transfers; Time Perfected
27-9-3-19. Transfers on Account of New and Contemporaneous Consideration
27-9-3-20. Liens Dissolved by Furnishing Bond; Effect of Voidable Lien
27-9-3-21. Discharge From Voidable Lien
27-9-3-22. Jurisdiction of Marion County Circuit Court Under This Chapter
27-9-3-23. Discharge of Surety Under Releasing Bond
27-9-3-24. Extension of Unsecured Credit by Preferred Creditor
27-9-3-25. Payment to Attorney for Services
27-9-3-26. Personal Liability Relating to Improper Preferences
27-9-3-27. Claims by Creditors Holding Voidable Preferences
27-9-3-28. Setoff of Mutual Debts or Credits
27-9-3-29. Liquidator's Report; Assessment of Members
27-9-3-30.1. Reinsurance; Method of Payment Upon Liquidation
27-9-3-31. Liability for Payment of Premiums by Insured and Person Other Than Insured; Penalties
27-9-3-32. Proposal to Disburse Assets
27-9-3-33. Filing Proof of Claims
27-9-3-34. Content of Proof of Claim
27-9-3-34.5. Administration of Large Deductible Worker's Compensation Policy
27-9-3-35. Claims Subject to Contingencies
27-9-3-36. Claims by Insured or by Third Party
27-9-3-37. Denial of Claim; Objections; Hearing
27-9-3-38. Claims in Name of Secured Creditors
27-9-3-39. Valuation of Security Held by Secured Creditor
27-9-3-40. Priority of Distribution of Claims
27-9-3-40.5. Segregated Investment Accounts
27-9-3-41. Settlement of Claims; Report of Unresolved Claims; Action of Court on Report
27-9-3-42. Payment of Distributions
27-9-3-43. Deposit of Unclaimed Funds
27-9-3-44. Discharge of Liquidator
27-9-3-45. Reopening of Proceedings
27-9-3-46. Destruction of Records
27-9-3-47. Audit of Books of Commissioner Relating to Receivership