Title 21, Insurance

(a) There is established as a nonprofit legal entity the Alaska Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. Each member insurer shall be a member of the association as a condition of the insurer's authority to transact insurance, a hospital or medical service corporation busi…

(a) The Board of Governors of the association consists of not less than seven nor more than 11 representatives of member insurers. The director may appoint two individuals as members of the board to represent the public. Terms of office for board members shall be established in t…

(a) If a member insurer becomes impaired, the association may, with the approval of the director and subject to any conditions imposed by the association that do not impair the contractual obligations of the impaired insurer, (1) guarantee, assume, reissue, reinsure, or provide f…

(a) For the purpose of providing funds necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the association, the Board of Governors shall by resolution assess the member insurers, separately for each account, at a time and for an amount that the board finds necessary. Assessments are …

(a) The association shall submit to the director a plan of operation and any amendments to assure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the association. The plan of operation and any amendments take effect on the written approval of the plan by the director or 30 …

(a) Upon request of the board, the director shall provide the association with a statement of the premiums in the appropriate states for each member insurer. (b) The director may (1) after notice and hearing as provided in AS 21.06.180 — 21.06.230, suspend or revoke the certifica…

(a) The director shall notify, by mail, the commissioner, director, or superintendent of insurance of the other states, territories of the United States, and the District of Columbia within 30 days after the date on which the following actions are taken against a member insurer: …

(a) This chapter does not reduce the liability for unpaid assessments of an insured of an impaired or insolvent insurer operating under an insurance policy with assessment liability. (b) The association shall keep records of meetings relating to its activities. Records of meeting…

The association may be examined by the director. The board shall submit to the director, not later than July 1 of each year, a certified financial report for the preceding calendar year in a form approved by the director and a report of its activities during the preceding calenda…

The association is exempt from payment of all fees and taxes levied by the state or its political subdivisions, other than real property taxes.

The association and its agents and employees, members of the Board of Governors, member insurers, and agents and employees of member insurers, and the director and the director's representatives are not civilly liable, and a cause of action of any nature may not arise, for an act…

Proceedings involving an insolvent insurer shall be stayed at least 180 days after the date of a final order of liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation in order to allow the association to exercise a power or duty authorized under this chapter. If a default judgment is enter…

(a) A person, including a member insurer, agent, or affiliate of a member insurer, may not make, publish, disseminate, circulate, or place before the public, or cause, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or placed before the public, in any new…

The principal place of business of a plan sponsor consisting of (1) a single employer or an employee organization is that state in which the plan sponsor exercises the direction, control, and coordination of the operations of the entity, as determined by the association in its re…

A citizen of the United States that is either a (1) resident of a foreign country, or (2) resident of a United States possession, territory, or protectorate that does not have an association similar to the association created by this chapter is, for purposes of this chapter, a re…

In this chapter, (1) “account” means an account created under AS 21.79.040; (2) “association” means the Alaska Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; (3) “authorized assessment” means an assessment approved by a resolution by the board that will be called immediately or …

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act.