If an insurer is enjoined or placed into rehabilitation or liquidation, premiums must be paid as this section directs, and the commissioner must notify policyholders within 10 days.
§2011. Premiums due; effect of injunction, or order of rehabilitation or liquidation A. If an insurer is enjoined from transacting any insurance business or from disposing of its property under R.S. 22:2006 or issued an order directing rehabilitation or liquidation under R.S. 22:2008, any premium due or payable on a contract of insurance which was issued by the insurer shall be paid by the insured as provided in this Section. B. When an insurer is enjoined from transacting insurance business or from disposing of its property under R.S. 22:2006, any and all premiums due the insurer shall be paid to the commissioner of insurance until dissolution or modification of the injunction. C. When an order directing rehabilitation is issued under R.S. 22:2008, any and all premiums due the insurer shall be paid to the commissioner of insurance until termination, under the provisions of R.S. 22:2008, of the order directing rehabilitation. D. All contracts of insurance issued by the insurer are cancelled upon issuance of an order, under the provisions of R.S. 22:2008, directing liquidation, and no premium shall be due or payable to the insurer. Such contracts formerly issued by the insurer may be assumed in whole or in part, or upon a modified basis, by a solvent insurer or insurers if approved under the provisions of R.S. 22:2010(D). E. Upon issuance of an injunction under R.S. 22:2006 or an order of rehabilitation or liquidation under R.S. 22:2008, the commissioner of insurance shall notify every holder of a contract of insurance issued by the insurer of such injunction or order and that payment of premiums shall be made under the provisions of this Section. Such notice shall be mailed to each such policyholder by letter with proof of mailing within ten days after issuance of the injunction or court order of rehabilitation or liquidation. Acts 1989, No. 697, §1; Acts 1992, No. 1095, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 22:737.1 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009. NOTE: Former R.S. 22:2011 redesignated as R.S. 22:255 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.