26-24-143. Impairment of capital or assets; assessment of stockholders or members.

(a) If an insurer is a stock insurer and receives the notice specified in W.S. 26-24-141(a) and to the extent that stockholders are subject to assessment under the insurer's articles of incorporation, by resolution of its board of directors, the insurer may assess its stockholders for amounts necessary to cure the deficiency and provide the insurer with a reasonable amount of additional surplus. If any stockholder fails to pay a lawful assessment after notice given to him in person, or by mail addressed to him at his address last of record with the insurer, or in any other manner the commissioner approves, the insurer may cancel and require the return of the certificates of stock then held by the stockholder. The insurer shall issue new certificates for that number of shares as the stockholder is then entitled to upon the basis of the stockholder's proportionate interest in the amount of the insurer's capital stock as the commissioner determines to be remaining unimpaired at the time of the determination of the amount of impairment under W.S. 26-24-141, after deducting from the proportionate interest the amount of the unpaid assessment. The insurer may pay for or issue fractional shares under this subsection.

(b) If an insurer is a mutual insurer and receives the notice specified in W.S. 26-24-141(a), it may levy an assessment upon members as provided in W.S. 26-24-136.

(c) Neither this section nor W.S. 26-24-141 prohibits the insurer from curing any deficiency through any lawful means.