AI-assisted research summary: If an insurer becomes insolvent or its policies are voided by court order, the commissioner must identify and notify Minnesota policyholders within 30 days. Agency contracts for Minnesota property and casualty insurers must also include a rule changing how agents handle premiums after delinquency proceedings begin.
§ Subdivision 1.Notification of policyholders. Whenever any foreign or domestic insurance company authorized to transact the business of insurance in Minnesota is adjudicated insolvent, or whenever its policies are declared null and void by court order, the commissioner of commerce shall ascertain the names and last known addresses of all Minnesota policyholders of said company, and shall notify all Minnesota policyholders within 30 days of such adjudication or court order. In the case of foreign insurers authorized to do business in this state, the commissioner of commerce may elect to notify all of the company's licensed agents in Minnesota with a directive that the agents notify all insureds of the company's insolvency or that its policies have been declared null and void. § Subd. 2.Remittance of premiums. Every agency contract written by an insurance company writing property and casualty insurance in Minnesota shall contain or be construed to contain the following provision: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this contract, the obligation of the agent to remit written premiums to the company shall be changed upon the commencement of any administrative or legal proceeding by any state against the carrier regarding its financial condition. After the commencement of the proceedings, the obligation of the agent to remit premiums shall be confined to the premiums earned before the commencement of the proceedings. The agent shall not owe or remit to the company or to the liquidator or receiver any premiums that are unearned as of the date of the commencement of the delinquency proceedings, and any unearned premiums in the possession of the agent on the date shall be returned promptly by the agent to the insured or, with the approval of the insured, be used to purchase new coverage for the insured with a different insurer."