33-23-508. Joint underwriting association. (1) A joint underwriting association is created, consisting of all insurers authorized to write or engaged in writing casualty insurance within this state, including insurers writing multiple-peril package policies but excluding risk retention groups. Each insurer shall remain a member of the association as a condition of the insurer's authority to continue to write casualty insurance in this state. The purpose of the association is to provide medical malpractice insurance on a self-supporting basis.
(2) The association may not commence underwriting operations for health care providers, other than health care facilities, until the commissioner has conducted a market review under 33-23-503, determined that medical malpractice insurance is not reasonably available for health care providers, other than health care facilities, in the voluntary market, and attempted to establish a market assistance plan. Upon the commissioner determining that the market assistance plan has not achieved reasonably available medical malpractice insurance, the commissioner shall notify the association that it may issue policies of medical malpractice insurance to health care providers, other than health care facilities. The association need not be the exclusive agency through which medical malpractice insurance may be written in this state on a primary basis for health care providers, other than health care facilities.
(3) The association may not commence underwriting operations for health care facilities until the commissioner has conducted a market review under 33-23-503, determined that medical malpractice insurance is not reasonably available for those facilities in the voluntary market, and attempted to establish a market assistance plan. Upon the commissioner determining that the market assistance plan has not achieved reasonably available medical malpractice insurance, the commissioner shall notify the association that it may issue policies of medical malpractice insurance to health care facilities. The association need not be the exclusive agency through which medical malpractice insurance may be written in this state on a primary basis.
(4) If the commissioner determines at any time that medical malpractice insurance is reasonably available in the voluntary market for the health care providers referred to in either subsection (2) or (3), the association shall cease its underwriting operations for the medical malpractice insurance that the commissioner has determined is reasonably available in the voluntary market.
(5) The association may operate for a period of 3 years. At the end of the 3-year period, the association must be dissolved unless the commissioner, after notice and a hearing, reauthorizes the operations of the association. If the commissioner determines that adequate medical malpractice insurance is available in the voluntary market, the commissioner shall order the association to end its underwriting operations and shall supervise the dissolution of the association, including settlement of all financial and legal obligations and distribution of any remaining assets.
History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 475, L. 2005.
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