§ 56-2-114 — Capital requirements for insurance combinations and reinsurance

(a) An insurer otherwise qualified therefor may be authorized to transact combinations of kinds of insurance while processing and maintaining capital, if a stock company, or surplus funds, if a mutual, reciprocal, or Lloyd's plan insurer, in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000). (b) To transact the business of reinsuring credit life and credit accident insurance and health insurance, an insurer must possess and maintain capital in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000); provided, that a company so authorized shall not be authorized to conduct any other line of business unless otherwise qualified.

Legislative History

Acts 1895, ch. 160, § 9, par. 2; 1901, ch. 131, § 1; 1907, ch. 493, § 1; Shan., § 3292; Code 1932, § 6107; Acts 1947, ch. 223, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 6107; Acts 1951, ch. 212, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 56-304; Acts 1955, ch. 13, § 1; 1967, ch. 31, § 5; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 56-214; Acts 1985, ch. 107, § 4; 1986, ch. 535, § 1.