Title 31A Chapter 16 Section 101

Insurance Code
Insurance Holding Companies
Section 101
Scope and purpose of chapter.

            

31A-16-101.   Scope and purpose of chapter.

            (1) This chapter applies to all persons doing an insurance business in Utah.

            (2) The purposes of this chapter include:

            (a) exercising surveillance over the acquisition of a domestic insurer, to ensure that in the process of making it part of an insurance holding company system, the interests of policyholders, shareholders, and the public are not harmed;

            (b) providing the regulatory monitoring of those intercorporate relationships and transactions among affiliates within an insurance holding company system that may affect the solidity of insurers;

            (c) controlling the payment of dividends that might affect the solidity of insurers; and

            (d) providing, in appropriate cases, recoupment of dividends paid.


Enacted by Chapter 242, 1985 General Session