Each such medical service corporation shall be subject to liquidation, dissolution or rehabilitation, and such proceeding shall be under the supervision of the Insurance Commissioner, who shall have such powers hereunder as he possesses in reference to domestic insurance corporations. Any medical service corporation may merge with any other medical service corporation or corporations, subject to the approval of the Insurance Commissioner and may consolidate or merge with a hospital service corporation organized under sections 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, subject to the approval of the Insurance Commissioner. The new corporation resulting from such consolidation or the surviving corporation resulting from such merger may exercise all of the powers and perform all of the functions of medical service corporations organized pursuant to sections 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, and hospital service corporations organized pursuant to 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and shall be subject to the provisions of said sections. Prior to such approval, the commissioner shall hold a hearing or hearings, in accordance with the procedures of chapter 54 to determine that the terms and conditions of the proposed merger or consolidation are fair and reasonable and that the interests of all parties, subscribers and affected persons are adequately protected. The consolidation or merger shall become effective upon the filing with the Secretary of the State of a certificate of consolidation or merger, endorsed as approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
(1949 Rev., S. 5288; P.A. 74-7, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 163, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 224, 348.)
History: P.A. 74-7 authorized merger or consolidation of medical service corporation and hospital service corporation, adding provisions re such mergers or consolidations; P.A. 77-614 made insurance department a division within the department of business regulation with commissioner as its head, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance division as independent department with commissioner as its head and abolished department of business regulation; Sec. 33-175 transferred to Sec. 38a-221 in 1991.
Annotations to former section 33-175:
Cited. 184 C. 352.
Cited. 29 CS 474.
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