Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 680A - Authorization of Insurers and General Requirements
NRS 680A.090 - Eligibility for certificate of authority: Ownership; management.


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

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 680A - Authorization of Insurers and General Requirements

NRS 680A.010 - Definitions.

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.082 - Eligibility for certificate of authority: Additional requirements for self-funded multiple employer welfare arrangements.

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.155 - Certificate of authority: Payment of certain taxes and penalties by certain applicants required.

NRS 680A.160 - Certificate of authority: Issuance or refusal; contents and ownership.

NRS 680A.165 - Certificate of authority: Insurer required to notify Commissioner of all material changes to information provided in application; suspension or revocation or administrative fine for failure to provide certain such notice.

NRS 680A.170 - Certificate of authority: Amendment; fee.

NRS 680A.173 - Transfer of insurer’s domicile: Foreign insurer may become domestic insurer.

NRS 680A.175 - Transfer of insurer’s domicile: Termination of status as domestic insurer; qualification as foreign 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.190 - Refusal to continue or suspension or revocation of certificate of authority: Mandatory grounds; notice; hearing.

NRS 680A.200 - Refusal to continue or suspension, limitation or revocation of certificate of authority: Grounds; administrative fine in lieu of certain suspension or revocation; immediate suspension; statute of limitations. [Effective through Decembe...

NRS 680A.205 - Determination of hazardous financial condition of insurer: Regulations; hearing; disciplinary actions; review of order.

NRS 680A.210 - Suspension, limitation or revocation of or refusal to continue certificate of authority: Order and notice; effect on agents’ authority.

NRS 680A.220 - Suspension of certificate of authority: Duration; insurer’s obligations during suspension period; reinstatement.

NRS 680A.230 - Applicability of general corporation laws to foreign insurers; exception.

NRS 680A.240 - Issuance of policies under additional titles: Registration; inclusion of such business in annual statement.

NRS 680A.250 - Service of process: Appointment of Commissioner as attorney in fact for receipt required for certain insurers; methods of serving.

NRS 680A.260 - Service of process: Method of serving if Commissioner statutorily designated as attorney in fact for receipt; extension of time to appear; record.

NRS 680A.265 - Annual financial statement: Filing; reporting of violation of law found during audit; penalty for failure to file; consolidation of statements prohibited; exception; regulations.

NRS 680A.270 - Filing of annual statement and payment of fee by authorized insurers; statement of alien insurer; actions by Commissioner for failure to file; filing of quarterly statement by domestic insurer; regulations; confidentiality of certain i...

NRS 680A.280 - Annual or other required statement: Penalties for failure to file or false statements.

NRS 680A.300 - Agent required; execution of emergency bond.

NRS 680A.320 - Transaction or agreement with parent corporation, financial holding company, depository institution, subsidiary or affiliated person: Prohibitions; duty and obligation of insurer.

NRS 680A.330 - Retaliatory provision.

NRS 680A.500 - Definitions.

NRS 680A.510 - "Deliver by electronic means" defined.

NRS 680A.520 - "Party" defined.

NRS 680A.530 - Applicability.

NRS 680A.540 - Authority to deliver by electronic means certain types of notices or documents in certain circumstances; delivery by electronic means satisfies requirements of Nevada Insurance Code regarding delivery in physical form.

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.

NRS 680A.590 - Enforceability of contract or policy of insurance if electronic consent or confirmation of consent not obtained; producer of insurance not subject to civil liability for delivery or failure to deliver by electronic means; relation to E...

NRS 680A.600 - Insurer authorized to satisfy requirement to mail or deliver a standard policy of property or casualty insurance or standard endorsement of such policy which does not contain personally identifiable information by posting on Internet w...