40-1107a. Same; title insurance company; exceptions.
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40-1107a. Same; title insurance company; exceptions. No title insurance company organized under the laws of this state, engaged exclusively in the business of insuring titles to real estate, shall expose itself to a loss on any one risk or hazard to an amount exceeding fifty percent (50%) of its paid-up capital and surplus, unless the excess shall be reinsured in some company duly authorized to transact similar business in this state or in any other state, provided such a company not authorized to do business in this state meets or exceeds the financial requirements as to capital and surplus of a title insurance company doing business in this state; and no title insurance company not organized under the laws of this state engaged exclusively in the business of insuring titles to real estate, transacting business in this state, shall expose itself to a loss on any one risk or hazard in this state to an amount exceeding fifty percent (50%) of its paid-up capital and surplus, unless the excess shall be reinsured either in some company duly authorized to transact similar business in this state or in any other state, provided such a company not authorized to do business in this state meets or exceeds the financial requirements as to capital and surplus of a title insurance company doing business in this state.
Any title insurance company organized under the laws of this state may take credit as an asset or as a deduction from loss and unearned premium reserves on such ceded risks to the extent reinsured.