District Of Columbia § 31-3503 - Applicability of other provisions.

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§ 31-3503. Applicability of other provisions.

31-3503
(a)

A corporation governed by this chapter shall also be subject to the following other provisions of District of Columbia insurance law, including any amendments or replacements thereof hereafter enacted:

(1)

Sections 31-201 [repealed], 31-202, and 31-206, referring to general provisions of insurance regulation;

(2)

Section 31-207, referring to general provisions of insurance regulation;

(3)

Sections 31-5203 and 31-5204, referring to delivery (with each policy issued) of a copy of the insured’s application, and to the principal office, books, and records of insurance companies;

(4)

, referring to prohibition against discrimination in the provision of insurance on the basis of an AIDS test;

(5)

, referring to the applicability of, and definitions in, the Life Insurance Act;

(6)

Sections 31-4301, 31-4302, 31-4303, 31-4305, 31-4308 [repealed], 31-4309 [repealed], 31-4310(b), 31-4311 [repealed], 31-4312 through 31-4317, 31-4322 [repealed], 31-4324 through 31-4328 [repealed], and 31-4329 through 31-4332, governing, in part, fees chargeable to, certificates of authority for, publication of false statements by, and licensing of agents acting for life insurance companies;

(7)

Sections 31-4713 through 31-4715 [repealed], 31-4718 [repealed], and 31-4724 through 31-4730, referring, in part, to the prohibitions against discrimination, securities, operations, and policy provisions restricting access to optometrists and psychologists by life insurance companies;

(8)

Sections 31-4401 through 31-4404, 31-4406, 31-4407, 31-4409, 31-4427, 31-4429, 31-4430, 31-4435 [repealed], 31-4439, 31-4440, and 31-4443 through 31-4452, referring, in part, to articles of incorporation, election of officers, permissible investments, bookkeeping, and consolidation/merger of domestic life insurance companies;

(9)

, governing penalties for violations and severability with respect to the provisions cited in paragraphs 5 through 8 of this subsection;

(10)

, requiring that certain individual and group health insurance policies cover a newborn child from the moment of birth;

(11)

, creating the District of Columbia Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association and authorizing it to assume, guarantee, and reinsure any policy issued by a member insurer which becomes potentially unable to fulfill its contractual obligations;

(12)

, requiring certain group and individual health insurance policies to provide coverage for the medical and psychological treatment of alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness;

(13)

, requiring a group or individual health insurance policy issued more than 120 days after March 7, 1991, to cover certain preventive cancer screens for women;

(14)

, authorizing the Mayor to issue regulations establishing specific standards for Medicare supplement insurance policies;

(15)

, establishing the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund and requiring each insurer doing business in the District to deposit in the Fund a percentage amount to be used to defray expenses of the Insurance Administration;

(16)

, authorizing and regulating delinquency proceedings by the Commissioner of Insurance and Securities [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking] in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against certain insurers;

(17)

, establishing licensing and other requirements for managing general agents of certain insurers;

(18)

, establishing licensing and other requirements for the assumed reinsurance business;

(19)

, requiring insurers to file with the Mayor an accountant-prepared annual audit and other reports;

(20)

, governing the circumstances under which a domestic insurer may obtain a credit for reinsurance ceded to another insurer;

(21)

, governing an insurer’s filing with the Mayor and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) of an annual financial statement;

(22)

, establishing standards for determining whether the continued operation of any insurer transacting business in the District might be hazardous to creditors, the general public, or policyholders, and authorizing the Mayor to order certain corrective actions after making such a determination;

(23)

, governing examinations by the Mayor or any person subject to the District’s insurance laws;

(24)

, governing certain acquisition, investment, security issuance, and other activities in the insurance industry, requiring the registration of insurers that are part of an insurance holding company system, regulating transactions within such a system, regulating the management of domestic insurers in such a system, and authorizing the Mayor to conduct examinations of insurers that are part of such a system;

(25)

, requiring the submission to the Mayor of an annual opinion by a qualified actuary;

(26)

, requiring an annual license or certificate of authority from the Commissioner of Insurance and Securities [Commissioner of the Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking] for each insurer doing business in the District, requiring the filing of an annual statement by each such insurer, and imposing a tax on each such insurer’s at-risk business in the District;

(27)

, requiring insurers to file with the Mayor annual risk-based capital reports;

(28)

The Reasonable Health Insurance Ratemaking Reform Act of 2010, [Chapters 30A, 31C, and 33A of this title] []; and

(29)

Section 31-3461(a), making applicable sections 1251, 1252, and 1304 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, approved March 23, 2010 (124 Stat. 119; 42 U.S. C. §§ 18011, 18021 and 18024), and sections 2701 through 2709, 2711 through 2719A, and 2794 of the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682; approved July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682; 42 U.S.C. §§ 300gg, 300gg-1, 300gg-2, 300gg-3, 300gg-4, 300gg-5, 300gg-6, 300gg-7, 300gg-8, 300gg-9, 300gg-11, 300gg-12, 300gg-13, 300gg-14, 300gg-15, 300gg-15A, 300gg-16, 300gg-17, 300gg-18, 300gg-19, 300gg-19A, and 300gg-94 ), (collectively “federal health acts”) and any implementing rules issued pursuant to the federal health acts.

(b)

Reference in the provisions cited in subsection (a) of this section to “insurers,” “companies,” or similar terms shall be deemed to include reference to a corporation governed by this chapter.

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