Alabama § 27-11-6 - Validity of Acts or Contracts of Unauthorized Insurer; Actions Against or by Same.

§ 27-11-6. Validity of Acts or Contracts of Unauthorized Insurer; Actions Against or by Same.

The failure of an insurer to obtain a license or certificate of authority shall not impair the validity of any act or contract of such insurer and shall not prevent such insurer, its assigns or successors in interest, from defending any action in any court of this state; but no insurer transacting insurance business in this state without a license or certificate of authority shall be permitted to maintain an action in any court of this state to enforce any right, claim, or demand arising out of the transaction of such business until such company, its assigns or successors in interest shall have:

(1) Obtained a license or certificate of authority; or

(2) Deposited with the clerk of the court in which such action or proceeding is pending cash or securities or file with such clerk a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to secure the payment of any final judgment which may be entered in such action; provided, that the court may, in its discretion and after reasonable notice to the opposing parties and upon a hearing, make an order dispensing with such deposit or bond where the insurer makes a showing satisfactory to such court that it maintains in a state of the United States funds or securities, in trust or otherwise, sufficient and available to satisfy any final judgment which may be entered in such action or proceeding.

No action shall be maintained, except upon the conditions provided in this section, in any court of this state by any successor or assignee or assumptor of such unauthorized insurer which has acquired all or substantially all of the assets of such unauthorized insurer.