The commissioner of insurance may seek a court order to conserve a foreign or surplus-line insurer’s assets, and must take possession once ordered.
§2035. Grounds for conservation of assets of an authorized foreign or alien insurer or an unauthorized insurer writing business on a surplus line basis A. Whenever the property of a foreign or alien insurer authorized to do business in Louisiana or an unauthorized insurer writing business in this state on a surplus line basis has been sequestrated in its domiciliary sovereignty or elsewhere, or whenever any of the grounds specified in R.S. 22:2005(A), except Paragraphs (8) and (16) of that Subsection, arise or exist with reference to any foreign or alien insurer authorized to transact business in this state or an unauthorized insurer writing business in this state on a surplus line basis and having assets in this state, the commissioner of insurance may proceed for the filing of a petition as provided in this Chapter against domestic insurers, for an order directing such authorized foreign or alien insurer or such unauthorized insurer to show cause why the commissioner of insurance should not take possession of its assets in this state and conserve such assets for the benefit of its creditors and for such other relief as the nature of the cause and the interests of its policyholders, creditors, members, stockholders, or the public may require. B. The court shall have jurisdiction over matters brought by or against the Department of Insurance or the commissioner of insurance to issue injunctions and to enter such other orders as it may deem necessary as is provided in the case of a petition against a domestic insurer so far as such injunctions or orders may apply to such foreign or alien insurer. If the court finds that sufficient cause for conservation exists, it shall direct the commissioner of insurance to take possession of the property, business, and affairs of the insurer and to conserve the same. C.(1) Upon the entry of such order, the commissioner of insurance shall forthwith take possession of the property, business, and affairs of such foreign or alien insurer, and conserve the same. He shall retain such possession until, on the petition either of the commissioner of insurance or of such foreign or alien insurer, or its receiver or anyone in charge of the property, business, and affairs of such foreign or alien insurer in its domiciliary sovereignty, the court, after a full hearing, shall find that the ground for such order finding cause for conservation has been removed. (2) No auditor or investigator shall be appointed or designated in connection with the conservation if he audited or investigated the foreign or alien insurer prior to the conservation. D. The rights, powers, and duties of the commissioner of insurance as such conservator, with reference to the assets of a foreign or alien insurer shall be ancillary to the rights, powers, and duties imposed upon any receiver or other person, if any, in charge of the property, business and affairs of such insurer in its domiciliary sovereignty. When such domiciliary sovereignty is also a "reciprocal state" as defined in R.S. 22:2038, the commissioner of insurance, as ancillary receiver in this state, shall be subject to the provisions of the Uniform Insurers Liquidation Law, R.S. 22:2038 through 2044. Acts 1958, No. 125. Amended by Acts 1970, No. 86, §1; Acts 1991, No. 742, §1; Acts 1992, No. 808, §1, eff. July 7, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 955, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 22:756 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 271, §1.