(A) The compacting states are created and established as a joint public agency known as the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission". Pursuant to Section 38-95-40, the commission has the power to develop uniform standards for product lines, receive and provide prompt review of products filed with it, and give approval to those product filings satisfying applicable uniform standards. It is not intended that the commission be the exclusive entity for receipt and review of insurance product filings. This chapter does not prohibit an insurer from filing its product in a state in which the insurer is licensed to conduct the business of insurance, and that filing is subject to the laws of the state where filed.

(B) The commission is a body corporate and politic, and an instrumentality of the compacting states.

(C) The commission is solely responsible for its liabilities except as otherwise specifically provided by this chapter.

(D) Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the commission may be brought only and exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction where the principal office of the commission is located.

HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 339, Section 2, eff January 1, 2009; Reenacted by 2016 Act No. 161 (H.4662), Section 1, eff June 1, 2014.

Editor's Note

2016 Act No. 161, Section 1, provides as follows:

"SECTION 1. The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact, as established by Section 2, Act 339 of 2008, and contained in Chapter 95, Title 38, and related provisions contained in Sections 1, 3, and 5, Act 339 of 2008, all are reenacted as provided in Act 339 of 2008, retroactive to June 1, 2014, when the act expired. The reporting requirements of Section 4, and the expiration provision of Section 6, Act 339 of 2008, are not reenacted."