17:18-13. Title insurance companies; reserve of gross fees and premiums; charges against reserve
Every title insurance company of this State or of another State or foreign country doing business in this State under paragraph "h" of section 17:17-1 of this Title shall set up, accumulate, and maintain a reserve as follows:
a. During the first ten years of its doing business after the effective date of this act, it shall set up, accumulate, and maintain a reserve at the end of each calendar month at least equal to three per centum (3%) of the total gross fees and premiums received or to be received on account of policies issued during the next preceding calendar month for title insurance, examinations or searches of title, and for abstracts of title, written, issued, or performed, as the case may be, after the effective date of this act; and at the end of every such calendar month the amount so required to be accumulated shall be charged as a reserve liability of such company in determining its financial condition.
b. After the expiration of the said first ten years and in lieu of the reserve required by the preceding paragraph "a" , every such company shall, at the end of each calendar month thereafter, set up and accumulate a similar reserve of two per centum (2%) of the total of said gross fees and premiums received or to be received on account of policies issued during the preceding calendar month and during the one hundred nineteen immediately preceding calendar months for title insurance, examinations or searches of title, and for abstracts of title, written, issued, or performed, as the case may be; and at the end of every such calendar month thereafter the amount so required to be accumulated shall be charged as a reserve liability of such company in determining its financial condition.
c. The amount of any loss or claim and the amount of any counsel fees, incurred as a result of any claim, that shall be paid by any such title insurance company on policies of title insurance, examinations of titles, searches of title and abstracts of title may be charged against the reserve accumulated under the provisions of the preceding paragraphs "a" and "b" ; provided, however, that no such charge against the reserve shall be made unless the reserve amounts to more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00); and provided, further, that the amount of the reserve shall not be thereby reduced to a sum less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00).
L.1938, c. 289, p. 624, s. 6. Amended by L.1949, c. 180, p. 583, s. 1.
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