§36-6031. Report of holdings and change in ownership - Unfair use
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of information - Recovery of profits.
A. Every person who is directly or indirectly the beneficial owner of more than ten per cent (10%) of any class of equity security of an insurer or who is a director or officer of such insurer shall file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner
within
(10)ten days after becoming such beneficial owner, director or officer a statement, in such form and detail and subject to such rules as the Insurance Commissioner may prescribe, of the amount of all equity securities of such insurer of which he or she is the beneficial owner, director or officer within ten
(10)days after the close of each calendar month thereafter, if there has been a change in such ownership during such month, shall file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner a statement, in such form and detail and subject to such rules as the Insurance Commissioner may prescribe, indicating his or her ownership at the close of the calendar month and such changes in his or her ownership as have occurred during such calendar month.
B. For the purpose of preventing the unfair use of information which may have been obtained by such beneficial owner, director or officer by reason of his or her relationship to such insurer, any profit realized by him or her from any purchase and sale or any sale and purchase, of any equity security of such insurer within any period of less than two
(2)years subsequent to the incorporation of the insurer, shall inure to and be recoverable by the insurer, unless such equity security was acquired in good faith in connection with a debt previously contracted, irrespective of any intention on the part of such beneficial owner, director or officer in entering into such transaction.
C. Suit to recover such profit may be instituted at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction by the insurer or by the owner of any equity security of the insurer in the name and in behalf of the insurer if the insurer shall fail or refuse to bring such suit within sixty
(60)days after request or shall fail diligently to prosecute the same thereafter. If no suit to recover such profit is so filed within six
(6)months following the date such profit was realized or accrued or if at any time such suit is not diligently prosecuted, the Insurance Commissioner may file or prosecute such suit for and on behalf of the insurer at the expense of the insurer. Added by Laws 1965, c. 341, § 1, emerg. eff. June 28, 1965. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 418, § 101, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.