Section 500.5272 - Domestic fire insurance company; deficiency of assets; notice; cessation of business; liability.
THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 218 of 1956
500.5272 Domestic fire insurance company; deficiency of assets; notice; cessation of business; liability.
Sec. 5272.
(1) Whenever it shall appear to the commissioner, from examination of any domestic fire insurance company that the assets of the company are insufficient to justify the continuance in business of such company, he may direct the officers thereof to require the stockholders to pay in the amount of such deficiency within such period as he may designate in such requisition, and in case any such company shall fail to pay in and make good the full amount of such deficiency within 30 days after such requisition and direction as aforesaid, the commissioner shall give notice of such failure in some newspaper published in the county where the office of such company is located by its charter. Such notice shall contain a brief statement of the fact of such failure to comply with this section, and shall be published in such paper once in each week for 3 successive weeks.
(2) It shall not be lawful after the first publication of such notice for such company to issue any policy of insurance, or to make any contract for the same, or to transact any business under its charter, except to close up its business; and all contracts of insurance and policies issued after such first publication of such notice shall be void and of no binding force, and the person or persons making such contracts or issuing such policy shall be liable, in an action of trover, to the person insured, in double the sum named as premium in such contract or policy.
History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Popular Name: Act 218