Retaliation for unjustified refusal to permit business because of similar name

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AR Code › Title 23 › Chapter 63 › Subchapter 1 › Section 23-63-103

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Whenever any other state or foreign country refuses to permit any life insurer domiciled in Arkansas to enter in and transact insurance in the state or country upon the grounds that the name of the Arkansas insurer is the same or similar to the name of a life insurer domiciled in the other state or country, the Insurance Commissioner, if satisfied that no such similarity of names actually exists, that the refusal is unjustified, and that the Arkansas insurer should be permitted to do business in the other state or country, may, in his or her discretion, suspend or revoke the certificate of authority in Arkansas of that life insurer domiciled in the other state or country whose name has been so declared to be similar to that of the Arkansas insurer. Acts 1959, No. 148, § 67; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-2225.

Whenever any other state or foreign country refuses to permit any life insurer domiciled in Arkansas to enter in and transact insurance in the state or country upon the grounds that the name of the Arkansas insurer is the same or similar to the name of a life insurer domiciled in the other state or country, the Insurance Commissioner, if satisfied that no such similarity of names actually exists, that the refusal is unjustified, and that the Arkansas insurer should be permitted to do business in the other state or country, may, in his or her discretion, suspend or revoke the certificate of authority in Arkansas of that life insurer domiciled in the other state or country whose name has been so declared to be similar to that of the Arkansas insurer.

Acts 1959, No. 148, § 67; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-2225.

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