618.24 Requirements for incorporated alien insurers.

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(1)Conditions for authorization. No incorporated alien insurer may be authorized to do business in this state unless:

(a)It has operated for 5 years in its domicile or the commissioner finds other grounds for being confident that it will be solid during its formative period;

(b)It supplies and commits itself to maintain in the United States a deposit or bond in an amount the commissioner deems sufficient to protect the interests of insureds, creditors and the public in this state; and

(c)It files with the commissioner such agreement as the commissioner requires with respect to records, reports and submission to examinations, including an undertaking to keep its records, reports and other documents constantly available in full in the English language so far as they are relevant to its United States business, and an undertaking to keep records and make reports on United States business in a form satisfactory to the commissioner.

(2)Deposits. A deposit under sub.

(b)may be made as specified in s. 601.13 or with another trustee in this or another state approved by the commissioner. The deposit shall be in trust for such persons as the commissioner deems appropriate to achieve the purposes of sub.

(b). The trustees shall supply a certificate of the deposit in whatever form and at whatever intervals the commissioner reasonably requires.

(3)Bonds. A bond satisfies sub.

(b)if it is issued by an insurer authorized to do a surety business in this state and is conditioned on nonperformance of any obligation to such persons as the commissioner considers appropriate to achieve the purposes of sub.

(b). Each such bond shall cover any claims that arise out of occurrences prior to termination of the bond, and shall not be terminable on any ground without at least 30 days’ notice to the commissioner. Each such bond shall be in such form and be renewed at such intervals as the commissioner reasonably requires.