Merger of Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. In order to provide for the merger of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, the following shall apply:
(1)The Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association is merged with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, which shall then continue to be known as the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association.
(2)All premerger rights, powers, privileges, assets, property, duties, debts, obligations, and liabilities of each association related to a liquidated member shall remain with the members o
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Merger of Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. In order to provide for the merger of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, the following shall apply: (1) The Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association is merged with and into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, which shall then continue to be known as the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. (2) All premerger rights, powers, privileges, assets, property, duties, debts, obligations, and liabilities of each association related to a liquidated member shall remain with the members of the respective association prior to merger and subject to the laws in effect at the time the order of liquidation was entered with respect to the liquidated member, but shall be administered by the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. The Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association shall adopt changes to its plan of operation which reasonably accomplish this. (3) Subject to paragraph (2), the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association shall succeed, without other transfer, to all the rights, powers, privileges, assets, and property of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association and shall be subject to all duties, debts, obligations, and liabilities of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization that exist as of the date of the merger of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association shall succeed to (A) all collected, uncollected, or unbilled assessments of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association, (B) all cash, bank accounts, accrued interest, and tangible property of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association, (C) all rights, powers, privileges, duties, and obligations of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association under any of its contracts or commitments, and (D) all subrogations, assignments, and creditor rights and interests of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association. (4) All rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association shall be preserved unimpaired, provided that the liens upon property of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association shall be limited to the property affected thereby immediately prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. (5) Any action or proceeding pending by or against the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association may be prosecuted to judgment. (6) Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in this Article: (A) It is the intent of this Section to preserve only the rights, powers, privileges, assets, property, debts, obligations, and liabilities of the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association as they existed on the date of its merger into the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, and not to provide contract owners, certificate holders, enrollees and policy owners, or their respective payees, beneficiaries, or assignees, with duplicative or new rights, powers, privileges, assets, or property. (B) Accordingly, no contract owner, certificate holder, enrollee and policy owner, and no contract owner's, certificate holder's, enrollee's or policy owner's payee, beneficiary, or assignee, shall be entitled to (i) a recovery from the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association that is duplicative of a previous recovery from the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association or (ii) a recovery from the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association on account of a claim against the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association where the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association is liable with respect to a claim under the same policy or contract under this Article.