Section 26-28-105 - Grounds for Receivership; Rehabilitation of Domestic Insurer.

WY Stat § 26-28-105 (2019) (N/A)
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26-28-105. Grounds for receivership; rehabilitation of domestic insurer.

(a) The commissioner may apply to the court for an order appointing him as receiver of and directing him to rehabilitate a domestic insurer if the insurer:

(i) Is impaired or insolvent or is in unsound or such other condition or using such methods and practices in the conduct of its business as to render its further transaction of insurance hazardous or injurious to its policyholders;

(ii) Refuses to submit any of its books, records, accounts or affairs to reasonable examination by the commissioner;

(iii) Conceals or removes records or assets or otherwise violates W.S. 26-24-129;

(iv) Fails to comply with the commissioner's order to make good an impairment of capital or surplus or both;

(v) Transfers or attempts to transfer substantially its entire property or business, or enters into any transaction the effect of which is to merge substantially its entire property or business in that of any other insurer without first obtaining the commissioner's written approval;

(vi) Willfully violates its charter or articles of incorporation or any law of this state;

(vii) Has an officer, director or manager who refuses to be examined under oath concerning its affairs, for which purposes the commissioner may conduct and enforce by all appropriate and available means any such examination under oath in any other state or territory of the United States in which the officer, director or manager may then presently be, to the full extent permitted by the laws of the other state or territory;

(viii) Is the subject of an application for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or sequestrator of the insurer or its property otherwise than pursuant to this code, but only if the appointment has been made or is imminent and its effect is or would be to oust the courts of this state of jurisdiction under this chapter;

(ix) Consents to a receivership order through a majority of its directors, stockholders, members or subscribers; or

(x) Fails to pay a final judgment rendered against it in this state upon any insurance contract issued or assumed by it, within thirty (30) days after the judgment is final, or within thirty (30) days after the time for taking an appeal expires or within thirty (30) days after dismissal of an appeal before final termination, whichever date is later.