§ 36-612 — Additional kinds of insurance - Requirments.

A. An insurance company which incorporates or is authorized initially to transact the business of insurance in Oklahoma after the effective date of this act may transact all kinds of insurance with no additional capital or surplus requirements. B. An insurance company which incorporated or was initially authorized to transact the business of insurance in Oklahoma prior to the effective date of this act and which is otherwise qualified therefor may be authorized to transact combinations of kinds of insurance (other than the life and accident and health combination shown in Section 610 of this article) while possessing and maintaining thereafter additional surplus in regard to policyholders not less in amount than that determined in subsection C of this section. C. For any lawful combination add One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) for each additional kind of insurance included in the combination, to the amount required under Section 610 of this article for that one kind of insurance in the combination for which the largest amount is required under said Section 610, except: 1. Vehicle and accident and health insurance may be combined with casualty, and in any combination including casualty, without funds in addition to those required because of casualty. 2. An insurer, if otherwise qualified therefor, may be authorized to transact all kinds of insurance except life and title insurance. 3. The amount of such surplus in regard to policyholders shall not in any event be less than would be required if the insurer proposed to transact in Oklahoma all those kinds of insurance which it is transacting elsewhere.

Legislative History

Laws 1957, p. 233, § 612; Laws 1967, c. 231, § 2, emerg. eff. May 4, 1967; Laws 1980, c. 185, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1980.