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92_HB1989

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning insurance.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Insurance  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 205 as follows:

 6        (215 ILCS 5/205) (from Ch. 73, par. 817)
 7        Sec. 205.  Priority of distribution of general assets.
 8        (1)  The  priorities  of  distribution  of general assets
 9    from the company's estate is to be as follows:
10             (a)  The  costs  and  expenses  of   administration,
11        including the expenses of the Illinois Insurance Guaranty
12        Fund,  the  Illinois  Life  and Health Insurance Guaranty
13        Association, the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization
14        Guaranty Association and of any similar  organization  in
15        any  other  state  as  prescribed  in  subsection  (c) of
16        Section 545.
17             (b)  Secured claims, including claims for taxes  and
18        debts  due  the federal or any state or local government,
19        that are secured by liens perfected prior to  the  filing
20        of the complaint.
21             (c)  Claims  for  wages  actually owing to employees
22        for services rendered within 3 months prior to  the  date
23        of  the  filing of the complaint, not exceeding $1,000 to
24        each employee unless there are  claims  due  the  federal
25        government under paragraph (f), then the claims for wages
26        shall   have   a  priority  of  distribution  immediately
27        following that of federal claims under paragraph (f)  and
28        immediately  preceding  claims of general creditors under
29        paragraph (g).
30             (d)  Claims   by    policyholders,    beneficiaries,
31        insureds  and  liability  claims against insureds covered
 
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 1        under insurance policies and insurance  contracts  issued
 2        by  the  company,  and  claims  of the Illinois Insurance
 3        Guaranty Fund, the Illinois  Life  and  Health  Insurance
 4        Guaranty  Association,  the  Illinois  Health Maintenance
 5        Organization  Guaranty  Association   and   any   similar
 6        organization  in  another  state as prescribed in Section
 7        545.
 8             (e)  Claims  by  policyholders,  beneficiaries,  and
 9        insureds, the allowed values of which were determined  by
10        estimation  under  paragraph  (b)  of  subsection  (4) of
11        Section 209.
12             (f)  Any other claims due the federal government.
13             (g)  All  other  claims  of  general  creditors  not
14        falling within any  other  priority  under  this  Section
15        including  claims  for  taxes  and debts due any state or
16        local government which are not secured claims and  claims
17        for attorneys' fees incurred by the company in contesting
18        its conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation.
19             (h)  Claims  of  guaranty  fund certificate holders,
20        guaranty capital shareholders, capital note holders,  and
21        surplus note holders.
22             (i)  Proprietary claims of shareholders, members, or
23        other owners.
24        Every  claim  under a written agreement, statute, or rule
25    providing that the assets  in  a  separate  account  are  not
26    chargeable  with  the  liabilities  arising  out of any other
27    business of the insurer shall be satisfied out of the  funded
28    assets  in  the separate account equal to, but not to exceed,
29    the reserves maintained in the  separate  account  under  the
30    separate  account  agreement,  and to the extent, if any, the
31    claim is not fully discharged thereby, the remainder  of  the
32    claim  shall  be  treated as a priority level (d) claim under
33    paragraph (d) of this subsection to the extent that  reserves
34    have  been  established  in  the  insurer's  general  account
 
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 1    pursuant to statute, rule, or the separate account agreement.
 2        For   purposes   of  this  provision,  "separate  account
 3    policies,  contracts,  or  agreements"  means  any  policies,
 4    contracts, or agreements that provide for  separate  accounts
 5    as contemplated by Section 245.21.
 6        To  the  extent that any assets of an insurer, other than
 7    those assets  properly  allocated  to  and  maintained  in  a
 8    separate account, have been used to fund or pay any expenses,
 9    taxes,  or  policyholder  benefits that are attributable to a
10    separate account policy, contract, or agreement  that  should
11    have   been   paid   by  a  separate  account  prior  to  the
12    commencement  of  receivership  proceedings,  then  upon  the
13    commencement  of  receivership  proceedings,   the   separate
14    accounts  that  benefited  from this payment or funding shall
15    first be used to repay or  reimburse  the  company's  general
16    assets  or  account  for any unreimbursed net sums due at the
17    commencement  of  receivership  proceedings  prior   to   the
18    application   of   the   separate   account   assets  to  the
19    satisfaction of liabilities  or  the  corresponding  separate
20    account policies, contracts, and agreements.
21        To  the  extent, if any, reserves or assets maintained in
22    the separate account are in excess of the amounts  needed  to
23    satisfy  claims  under  the  separate  account contracts, the
24    excess shall be treated as part of the general assets of  the
25    insurer's estate.
26        (2)  Within  120  days  after the issuance of an Order of
27    Liquidation with a finding of insolvency against  a  domestic
28    company,  the  Director  shall  make application to the court
29    requesting  authority  to  disburse  funds  to  the  Illinois
30    Insurance  Guaranty  Fund,  the  Illinois  Life  and   Health
31    Insurance   Guaranty   Association,   the   Illinois   Health
32    Maintenance  Organization  Guaranty  Association  and similar
33    organizations in other states from time to time  out  of  the
34    company's  marshaled  assets  as  funds  become  available in
 
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 1    amounts equal to disbursements made by the Illinois Insurance
 2    Guaranty  Fund,  the  Illinois  Life  and  Health   Insurance
 3    Guaranty   Association,   the   Illinois  Health  Maintenance
 4    Organization Guaranty Association and  similar  organizations
 5    in  other  states  for  covered  claims  obligations  on  the
 6    presentation  of  evidence  that such disbursements have been
 7    made by the Illinois Insurance Guaranty  Fund,  the  Illinois
 8    Life  and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, the Illinois
 9    Health  Maintenance  Organization  Guaranty  Association  and
10    similar organizations in other states.
11        The Director shall establish procedures for  the  ratable
12    allocation  and distribution of disbursements to the Illinois
13    Insurance  Guaranty  Fund,  the  Illinois  Life  and   Health
14    Insurance   Guaranty   Association,   the   Illinois   Health
15    Maintenance  Organization  Guaranty  Association  and similar
16    organizations in other states.  In  determining  the  amounts
17    available   for  disbursement,  the  Director  shall  reserve
18    sufficient  assets  for  the  payment  of  the  expenses   of
19    administration   described  in  paragraph  (1)  (a)  of  this
20    Section.  All funds  available  for  disbursement  after  the
21    establishment  of  the  prescribed  reserve shall be promptly
22    distributed.   As  a  condition  to  receipt  of   funds   in
23    reimbursement  of  covered  claims  obligations, the Director
24    shall secure from the Illinois Insurance Guaranty  Fund,  the
25    Illinois  Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, the
26    Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association
27    and each similar organization in other states,  an  agreement
28    to return to the Director on demand funds previously received
29    as  may  be  required  to pay claims of secured creditors and
30    claims  falling  within   the   priorities   established   in
31    paragraphs  (a),  (b), (c), and (d) of subsection (1) of this
32    Section in accordance with such priorities.
33        (3)  The provisions of this Section are  severable  under
34    Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
 
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 1    (Source: P.A. 89-206, eff. 7-21-95; 90-381, eff. 8-14-97.)

 2        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 3    becoming law.

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