§ 23-69-125 — Contingent liability and assessability of policies - Mutual insurers

(a) (1) While possessing surplus funds in amount not less than the paid-in capital stock required of a domestic stock insurer transacting like kinds of insurance, a domestic mutual insurer may, upon receipt of the Insurance Commissioner's order so authorizing, extinguish the contingent liability of its members as to all its policies in force and may omit provisions imposing contingent liability in all its policies currently issued. (2) No domestic mutual legal reserve life insurer shall at any time issue policies providing for or subject to contingent liability or assessment of members. (b) (1) The commissioner shall revoke the authority of a domestic mutual insurer to issue policies without contingent liability if at any time the insurer's assets are less than the sum of its liabilities and the surplus required for the authority, or if the insurer, by resolution of its board of directors approved by a majority of its members, requests that the authority be revoked. (2) This subsection does not apply to domestic mutual legal reserve life insurers.

Legislative History

Acts 1959, No. 148, §§ 477, 478; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 66-4225, 66-4226.