1. No foreign insurer which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled in whole or substantial part by any government or governmental agency shall be authorized to transact insurance in Nevada. Membership in a mutual insurer, or subscribership in a reciprocal insurer, or ownership of stock of an insurer by the Alien Property Custodian or similar officer of the United States of America, or ownership of stock or other security which does not have voting rights with respect to the management of the insurer, or supervision of an insurer by public authority, shall not be deemed to be an ownership or control of the insurer for the purposes of this subsection.
2. The Commissioner shall not grant or continue authority to transact insurance in this state to any insurer or proposed insurer:
(a) Of which any director, officer or other individual materially part of the management is found by the Commissioner after investigation or upon reliable information to be incompetent, or dishonest, or untrustworthy, or of unfavorable business repute;
(b) Of which the managers are so lacking in insurance company managerial experience in operations of the kind proposed in this state as to make such operation, currently or prospectively, hazardous to or contrary to the best interests of the insurance-buying or investing public of this state;
(c) Which the Commissioner has good reason to believe is affiliated directly or indirectly through ownership, control, management, reinsurance transactions or other business relations with any person or persons of unfavorable business repute; or
(d) Whose business operations are or have been marked, to the injury of insurers, stockholders, policyholders, creditors or the public, by illegality, or by manipulation of assets, or of accounts, or of reinsurance, or by bad faith.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1578)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 680A - Authorization of Insurers and General Requirements
NRS 680A.020 - "Charter" defined.
NRS 680A.028 - "Multiple employer welfare arrangement" defined.
NRS 680A.030 - "Mutual" insurer defined.
NRS 680A.040 - "Reciprocal" insurer defined.
NRS 680A.050 - "Stock" insurer defined.
NRS 680A.058 - Applicability of chapter to self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements.
NRS 680A.060 - Certificate of authority: Required; penalty.
NRS 680A.070 - Certificate of authority: Exceptions to requirement.
NRS 680A.080 - Eligibility for certificate of authority: General requirements.
NRS 680A.090 - Eligibility for certificate of authority: Ownership; management.
NRS 680A.095 - Certificate of authority: Required to transact reinsurance; eligibility; exceptions.
NRS 680A.100 - Name of insurer.
NRS 680A.110 - Combinations of insuring powers.
NRS 680A.120 - Required capital.
NRS 680A.130 - Combinations of insurance for which additional capital not required.
NRS 680A.140 - Required deposit; deposit in other state.
NRS 680A.150 - Certificate of authority: Application.
NRS 680A.160 - Certificate of authority: Issuance or refusal; contents and ownership.
NRS 680A.170 - Certificate of authority: Amendment; fee.
NRS 680A.173 - Transfer of insurer’s domicile: Foreign insurer may become domestic insurer.
NRS 680A.177 - Transfer of insurer’s domicile: Duties of insurer; effect on policies.
NRS 680A.180 - Continuance, expiration and reinstatement of certificate of authority.
NRS 680A.230 - Applicability of general corporation laws to foreign insurers; exception.
NRS 680A.300 - Agent required; execution of emergency bond.
NRS 680A.330 - Retaliatory provision.
NRS 680A.510 - "Deliver by electronic means" defined.
NRS 680A.520 - "Party" defined.
NRS 680A.550 - Requirements for delivery.
NRS 680A.560 - Circumstances in which insurer required to cease delivery by electronic means.
NRS 680A.570 - Withdrawal of consent to delivery by electronic means.
NRS 680A.580 - Effect of consent to delivery by electronic means given before October 1, 2017.