Title 56, Insurance

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 746.665, an insurer shall cooperate with any law enforcement agency or other state or federal agency that is investigating or prosecuting suspected criminal conduct involving insurance. The insurer shall provide any information requested by the agency unle…

Unless it is shown that the person, including an insurer, acted with actual malice, a person who discloses or provides information under ORS 731.592 has immunity from any civil liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the disclosure or provision of th…

The following deposits of insurers shall be accepted and held by the Department of Consumer and Business Services for the purposes for which such deposits are made and are subject to the applicable provisions of the Insurance Code: (1) Deposits required or permitted under the Ins…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, deposits made in this state under ORS 731.624 shall be held for the faithful performance by the insurer of all insurance obligations, including claims for unearned premiums, with respect to domestic risks pertaining to the…

While the insurer remains unimpaired and is in compliance with the Insurance Code it may: (1) Demand, receive, sue for and recover the income from the assets deposited; (2) Exchange and substitute for the deposited assets, or any part thereof, other eligible assets of equivalent …

(1) For the purpose of determining the sufficiency of its deposit in this state the assets of the insurer on deposit shall be valued at current market value. (2) If assets deposited by an insurer are subject to material fluctuations in market value, the Director of the Department…

(1) The insurer shall assign in trust to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and successors in office all securities being deposited through the director under the Insurance Code that are not negotiable by delivery; or, in lieu of such assignment, the…

Every insurer, before transacting insurance in this state, shall make the following deposits with the Department of Consumer and Business Services: (1) Foreign or alien insurers transacting surety insurance in this state, $250,000. (2) Foreign or alien insurers transacting title …

(1) In addition to any other requirement therefor under the Insurance Code, each insurer other than the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation that issues workers’ compensation insurance policies to employers under ORS chapter 656 shall deposit with the Department of Consumer …

Every domestic reciprocal insurer shall deposit with the Department of Consumer and Business Services $50,000, except such an insurer which exchanges policies of insurance covering only wet marine hull insurance for persons whose earned income, in whole or in part, is derived fro…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, every alien insurer, before transacting insurance in this state as an authorized insurer, shall deposit with the Department of Consumer and Business Services the sum of the following amounts: (a) The amount of its outstand…

(1) Deposits which are required or permitted under the Insurance Code shall consist only of the following: (a) Cash. (b) Amply secured obligations of the United States, a state or a political subdivision thereof. (c) Certificates of deposit or other investments described in ORS 7…

The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, in performing duties under ORS 731.604 to 731.652 and after consultation with the State Treasurer, may enter into contracts with banks qualified to act as trust companies and as depositories of state funds to hold …

(1) Except as otherwise provided in the Insurance Code, no judgment creditor or other claimant of an insurer shall have the right to levy upon any of the assets or securities of the insurer held on deposit in this state. (2) As to deposits made in this state pursuant to ORS 731.8…

(1) Every deposit made in this state by an insurer pursuant to the Insurance Code shall be so held as long as there is outstanding any liability of the insurer as to which the deposit was required, except as follows: (a) If the deposit was required under ORS 731.854, the deposit …

(1) Before releasing any deposit or portion thereof to the insurer, as provided in ORS 731.648, the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall require the insurer to file with the director a written statement in such form and with such verification as the …

(1) Every authorized insurer shall file with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, on or before March 1 of each year, a copy of its annual statement blank, along with additional filings required by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services fo…

Except in the case of malfeasance in office or willful or wanton neglect of duty or authority, there shall be no liability on the part of, and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against, any of the following persons by virtue of their collection, review, analysis or dis…

All financial analysis ratios and examination synopses concerning insurers that are submitted to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services by the Insurance Regulatory Information System of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners are confidential…

(1) A person or other entity described in this subsection acting without malice, fraudulent intent or bad faith is not subject to civil liability, and no cause of action of any nature may exist against such a person or entity, when the person is performing authorized functions, i…

(1) A report filed with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services according to requirements established by rule for disclosure of material acquisitions or dispositions of assets and disclosure of material nonrenewals, cancellations and revisions of ceded re…

(1) A report filed with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services according to requirements established by rule for the purpose of determining the amount of capital or surplus, or any combination thereof, that should be possessed and maintained by an insure…

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may use the following only for the purpose of monitoring the solvency of insurers and health care service contractors and the need for possible corrective action with respect to insurers and health care service …

As used in ORS 731.760 to 731.770: (1) “Insurance compliance audit” means a voluntary internal evaluation, review, assessment, audit or investigation that is undertaken to identify or prevent noncompliance with, or promote compliance with, laws, regulations, orders or industry or…

(1) Except as provided in ORS 731.760 to 731.770, an insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document is privileged information and is not discoverable, or admissible as evidence, in any civil, criminal or administrative proceeding. (2) Except as provided in ORS 731.760 to 731…

(1) ORS 731.761 does not limit the authority of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to acquire any insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document or to examine any person in connection with the document. If the director determines that the action…

(1) The privilege set forth in ORS 731.761 does not apply to the extent that the privilege is expressly waived by the insurer that prepared or caused to be prepared the insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document. (2) The privilege set forth in ORS 731.761 does not apply …

(1) Within 30 days after a district attorney or the Attorney General serves on an insurer a written request by certified mail for disclosure of an insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document, the insurer that prepared or caused the document to be prepared may file in circ…

The privilege established under ORS 731.761 does not apply to any of the following: (1) Documents, communications, data, reports or other information expressly required to be collected, developed, maintained or reported to a regulatory agency under the Insurance Code or other sta…

Nothing in ORS 731.760 to 731.770, or in the release of any insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document under ORS 731.760 to 731.770, shall limit, waive or abrogate the scope or nature of any statutory or common law privilege or other limitation on admissibility of eviden…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each authorized insurer doing business in this state shall pay assessments that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines are necessary to support the legislatively authorized budget of the Depart…

As used in ORS 731.804, 731.812, 731.820, 731.830 and 731.834, “gross amount of premiums” means the consideration paid by insureds to an insurer for policies of insurance, and includes all premiums, assessments, dues and fees received or derived, or obligations taken therefor, by…

Every foreign or alien insurer, in its annual statement to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, shall set forth the gross amount of premiums received by it or its insurance producers, return premiums paid, dividend payments made to policyholders, savi…

(1)(a) For the purpose of maintaining the Department of the State Fire Marshal and paying the expenses incident thereto, every insurer transacting insurance covering the peril of fire shall pay a tax to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, on or befor…

(1) Every insurer with a tax obligation under section 2, chapter 786, Oregon Laws 1995, ORS 731.820 or ORS 731.854 and 731.859 shall make prepayment of the tax obligations under section 2, chapter 786, Oregon Laws 1995, ORS 731.820, 731.854 and 731.859 for the current calendar ye…

(1) Wet marine and transportation insurance written by authorized foreign or alien insurers within this state shall be taxed only on that proportion of the total underwriting profit of the authorized insurer from wet marine and transportation insurance written within the United S…

(1) Each authorized insurer transacting wet marine and transportation insurance in this state shall file annually on or before June 15 with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and in the form prescribed by the director, a report of all the items perta…

An insurance producer shall pay to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a premium tax that is equal to three-fourths of one percent of the gross amount of premiums the insurance producer receives for wet marine and transportation insurance that the ins…

(1) Each producer of nonadmitted wet marine and transportation insurance shall keep a full and true record of each nonadmitted wet marine and transportation insurance contract placed on an Oregon home state risk. The record must include a copy of the policy, certificate, cover no…

(1) An insurance producer that places wet marine and transportation insurance with a nonadmitted insurer shall collect taxes on the insurance in addition to the gross amount of premiums the insurance producer and other intermediaries charge. If an insurance producer collects taxe…

The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall commence an action for the recovery of taxes payable under ORS 731.820, 731.824, 731.828 and 731.859 not later than the later of the following: (1) Five years after the date such taxes were payable to the dire…

(1) The retaliatory tax imposed upon a foreign or alien insurer under ORS 731.854 and 731.859, or the corporate excise tax imposed upon a foreign or alien insurer under ORS chapter 317, is in lieu of all other state taxes upon premiums, taxes upon income, franchise or other taxes…

If, on account of the provisions of section 2, chapter 786, Oregon Laws 1995, and the amendments to ORS 731.840 by section 6, chapter 786, Oregon Laws 1995, the amendments to ORS 750.329 by section 11, chapter 786, Oregon Laws 1995, the amendments to ORS 317.010 by section 12, ch…

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may grant, for good cause shown, a request for an adjustment of the amount of the prepayment due under ORS 731.822 or an extension of time for payment of taxes under ORS 731.808 to 731.834 and 731.859. The exten…

No personal liability shall arise against any director, trustee, officer or agent of any insurer on account of any taxes or fees paid pursuant to any statute, law or ordinance, even though such statute, law or ordinance is subsequently declared or held to be invalid. [1967 c.359 …

(1) When by or pursuant to the laws of any other state or foreign country any taxes, licenses and other fees, in the aggregate, and any fines, penalties, deposit requirements or other material obligations, prohibitions or restrictions are or would be imposed upon insurers domicil…

(1) On or before April 1 of each year, each foreign or alien insurer shall: (a) Determine and report to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services whether the provisions of the laws of any state or country require the imposition of the burdens specified by O…

(1) When the Governor declares a state of emergency under ORS 401.165, the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may issue an order that addresses any or all of the following matters related to insurance policies issued in this state: (a) Reporting requirem…

(1) A person that violates any provision of the Insurance Code, any lawful rule or final order of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services or any judgment that a court makes in response to the director’s application, shall forfeit and pay to the General Fu…

(1) A violation of ORS 731.260 is a Class A misdemeanor. (2) A violation of a provision of ORS 732.517 to 732.596 is a Class C felony. (3) An officer, director or employee of an insurance holding company system who willfully and knowingly makes, causes to be made, or subscribes t…