§ 27-2-1. Compliance by foreign insurance companies required. No insurance company, unless incorporated by the general assembly, shall make any insurance on property within this state or contract for insurance with any party resident in this state until the insurance company shall have complied with the provisions of this chapter. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. […]
§ 27-2-1.1. Telephone number — Toll free or collect. Every insurer doing business within this state shall have a toll free telephone number or provide collect charge telephone service for use by the general public when calling the insurer from any location within the state. History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 229, § 2; P.L. 1993, […]
§ 27-2-10. Filing of accident and health policy forms. Any insurance company authorized to transact an accident and health insurance business within this state in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall file all policy forms used by it with the insurance commissioner. The commissioner may also require any company to file the forms […]
§ 27-2-11. License required — Expiration date. No company shall transact any business of insurance in this state until it has obtained from the insurance commissioner of this state a license stating that it has complied with the laws of this state and specifying the kinds of business it is authorized to transact. The insurance […]
§ 27-2-12. Review of refusal to issue or renew license. A company aggrieved by the refusal of the insurance commissioner to issue or renew a license may within ten (10) days from the date of the refusal file a petition in superior court for the county of Providence for a review of the action, which […]
§ 27-2-13. Commissioner as attorney to receive process. No insurance company not incorporated under the authority of this state shall directly or indirectly issue policies, take risks, or transact business in this state until it has first appointed, in writing, the insurance commissioner of this state to be the true and lawful attorney of the […]
§ 27-2-14. Forwarding of process by commissioner. (a) Whenever lawful process against a foreign insurance company shall be served upon the insurance commissioner, the commissioner shall forward a copy of the process served on him or her, to the person appointed by the insurance company to accept service of process on behalf of the company. […]
§ 27-2-15. Provisions against actions in state courts. If any foreign insurance company, of any name, kind, or description, authorized to do business in this state shall provide in its charter or bylaws, or in the policies or contracts of insurance issued by it, that no action shall be brought against the company in any […]
§ 27-2-16. Filing fees — Certificates of compliance. (a) Every insurance company not incorporated in this state applying for admission to transact business in the state shall pay to the insurance commissioner, for the use of the state, for filing a copy of its charter or deed of settlement, the sum of thirty dollars ($30.00), […]
§ 27-2-17. Reciprocal fees and charges. (a) Whenever, by the laws of any other state of the United States, any fees, charges, taxes, deposits of money or of securities, or other obligations or prohibitions are imposed on insurance companies incorporated or organized under the laws of this state or on the insurance producers of the […]
§ 27-2-18. Life insurance companies’ offices. Every life insurance company doing business in this state, and whose premium income received from the inhabitants of this state in any one year shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), shall equip and maintain an office in this state, satisfactory to the insurance commissioner, for the transaction of business […]
§ 27-2-19. Inquiries as to financial condition. The insurance commissioner may inquire of any life, fire, marine, or fire and marine, or other insurance company, of any name or kind, doing business in this state, or of its secretary, in relation to its financial condition and management, and the inquiry shall be promptly answered. History […]
§ 27-2-2. Applicability. The general provisions of law relating to the duties, obligations, prohibitions, or penalties which appertain to insurance companies not incorporated under the authority of this state, and defining the powers and duties of the insurance commissioner in reference to those companies, shall be and are applicable to all corporations, companies, and associations […]
§ 27-2-20. Validity of contracts of non-complying companies — Penalty on insurance producers — Actions by company. If any insurance company, cooperative or otherwise, makes insurance without complying with the provisions of this chapter, the contract shall be valid, but every person acting within this state as an insurance producer of the company within the […]
§ 27-2-21. Report and prosecution of violations. The insurance commissioner shall report to the attorney general any violation of the provisions of this chapter that shall come to his or her knowledge. The attorney general shall institute the proper legal proceedings, in the name of the state, against any person violating any provision. History of […]
§ 27-2-22. Companies owned or controlled in whole or in part by foreign state or government. No license or certificate of authority to transact any kind of insurance business in this state shall be issued, renewed, or continued in effect to any domestic, foreign, or alien insurance company or other insurance entity which is owned […]
§ 27-2-23. Discrimination in rates prohibited. (a) No foreign insurance company licensed to do or doing business in this state shall make any distinction or discrimination as to the premiums or rates charged for policies of casualty, fire, home owners, accident and health, or marine insurance, nor shall any company make or permit the rejection […]
§ 27-2-24. Revocation or suspension of license of foreign company. Whenever it appears to the insurance commissioner from the statements, or from an examination of the affairs, of any life, fire, marine, fire and marine, casualty, or other insurance company not incorporated under the authority of this state, that the company is insolvent, or is […]
§ 27-2-25. Notice of revocation or suspension of license. The insurance commissioner shall give written notice to the company specifying the date on which any revocation or suspension shall be effective, the term of any suspension, and the ground for the revocation or suspension; provided, that if the ground for revocation or suspension is that […]
§ 27-2-26. Business prohibited during suspension or revocation. Any insurance company or its insurance producers shall not make any contracts or issue any policies of insurance in the state after its revocation or suspension is effective or until its license is restored by the insurance commissioner. History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 445, § 3.
