THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 218 of 1956 Chapter 1
SCOPE OF CODE

500.100 Insurance code of 1956; short title.

Sec. 100.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "the insurance code of 1956".

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Compiler's Notes: For transfer of the Department of Insurance and Office of the Commissioner on Insurance from the Department of Licensing and Regulation to the Department of Commerce, see E.R.O. No. 1991-9, compiled at MCL 338.3501 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.For transfer of authority, powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the insurance bureau and the commissioner of insurance to the commissioner of the office of financial and insurance services and the office of financial and insurance services, see E.R.O. No. 2000-2, compiled at MCL 445.2003 of the Michigan compiled laws.
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500.102 Definitions.

Sec. 102.

As used in this act:

(a) "Commissioner" means the director.

(b) "Department" means the department of insurance and financial services.

(d) "Office of financial and insurance regulation" and "office of financial and insurance services" mean the department.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 252, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 509, Imd. Eff. Jan. 14, 2015 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 566, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 571, Eff. Mar. 31, 2015
Compiler's Notes: Enacting section 1 of Act 566 of 2014 provides:"Enacting section 1. (1) This amendatory act shall not be construed to do any of the following: (a) Authorize this state or an agency of this state to conduct or oversee state-level governmental consumer assistance functions for an American health benefit exchange established or operating in this state under the patient protection and affordable care act, Public Law 111-148, as amended by the health care and education reconciliation act of 2010, Public Law 111-152. (b) Convey any administrative, statutory, rule-making, or other power to this state or an agency of this state to authorize, establish, or operate an American health benefit exchange in this state that did not exist before the effective date of this amendatory act. (2) It is the intent of this legislature that any consumer assistance functions by or overseen by this state or an agency of this state with regard to an American health benefit exchange shall be conducted in a manner that utilizes and highlights Michigan-based resources, including insurance producers, in order to best serve the residents of this state and to ensure appropriate health care decisions."Enacting section 2 of Act 566 of 2014 provides:"Enacting section 2. This amendatory act applies to policies, certificates, or contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on and after the effective date of this amendatory act."
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500.103 “Revenue commissioner” defined.

Sec. 103.

As used in this code, "revenue commissioner" means the state commissioner of revenue appointed under Act No. 122 of the Public Acts of 1941, being sections 205.1 to 205.31 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: Add. 1990, Act 256, Imd. Eff. Oct. 15, 1990
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500.106 "Health maintenance organization" and "insurer" defined.

Sec. 106.

As used in this act:

(a) "Health maintenance organization" means that term as defined in section 3501.

(b) "Insurer" means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. Except as otherwise provided in section 3503 and unless the context requires otherwise, insurer includes a health maintenance organization.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 2016, Act 276, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2016
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500.108 Authorized, unauthorized insurer; definitions.

Sec. 108.

As used in this code:

(1) "Authorized" insurer means an insurer duly authorized, by a subsisting certificate of authority issued by the commissioner, to transact insurance in this state.

(2) "Unauthorized" insurer means an insurer not so authorized to transact insurance in this state.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
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500.110 Domestic, foreign, alien; definitions.

Sec. 110.

As used in this code:

(1) "Domestic" insurer means an insurer formed under the laws of this state.

(2) "Foreign" insurer means an insurer formed under the laws of the District of Columbia, or some state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States of America other than the state of Michigan.

(3) "Alien" insurer means an insurer formed under the laws of a country other than the United States of America or any state, district, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States of America.

(4) Unless the context otherwise requires or unless the same subject is treated in this code by a provision expressly applying to alien insurers, the term "foreign insurer" as used in a particular section of this code shall be deemed to include also alien insurers.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
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500.114 Person; definition.

Sec. 114.

"Person" as used in this code includes an individual, insurer, company, association, organization, Lloyds, society, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, syndicate, business trust, corporation, and any other legal entity.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
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500.115 Definitions.

Sec. 115.

As used in this act unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) "Affiliate" or a person "affiliated" with a specific person means a person that directly, or indirectly through 1 or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person specified.

(b) "Control" including the terms "controlling", "controlled by", and "under common control with" mean the following:

(i) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (ii), the possession or the contingent or noncontingent right to acquire possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract including acquisition of assets or bulk reinsurance, other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, by pledge of securities, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. Control is presumed to exist if any person, by formal or informal arrangement, device, or understanding, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing 10% or more of the voting securities of any other person or for a mutual insurer owns 10% or more of the insurer's surplus through surplus notes, guarantee fund certificates or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the insurer. This presumption may be rebutted by a showing made in the manner provided by section 1332 that control does not in fact exist. The commissioner may determine after furnishing to all persons in interest notice and an opportunity to be heard and making specific findings of fact to support the determination that control in fact exists notwithstanding the absence of a presumption to that effect.

(ii) "Control", for the purpose of section 1243 and chapter 5 only, means 1 or more of the following:

(A) Ownership, control, or power to vote 25% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of the company, directly or indirectly, or acting through 1 or more other persons.

(B) Control in any manner over the election of a majority of the directors, trustees, or general partners or individuals exercising similar functions of the company.

(C) The power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of the company, as the commissioner determines.

(d) "Securityholder" of a specified person means a person who owns any security of the person, including common stock, preferred stock, debt obligations, and any other security convertible into or evidencing the right to acquire any of the foregoing.

(e) "Subsidiary" of a specified person means an affiliate controlled by that person directly or indirectly through 1 or more intermediaries.

(f) "Voting security" includes any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a voting security.

History: Add. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992 ;-- Am. 2001, Act 24, Imd. Eff. June 18, 2001
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500.116 Additional definitions.

Sec. 116.

As used in this act:

(a) "Enrollee" means an individual who is entitled to receive health services under a health insurance contract, unless the context requires otherwise.

(b) "Hazardous to policyholders, creditors, and the public" means that an insurer, with respect to the financial condition of its business, is not safe, reliable, and entitled to public confidence.

(c) "In the reasonable exercise of discretion" means that an order, decision, determination, finding, ruling, opinion, action, or inaction was based upon facts reasonably found to exist and was not inconsistent with generally acceptable standards and practices of those knowledgeable in the field in question.

(d) "Insurance policy" or "insurance contract" means a contract of insurance, indemnity, suretyship, or annuity issued or proposed or intended for issuance by a person engaged in the business of insurance. Unless the context requires otherwise, insurance contract includes a health maintenance contract, as that term is defined in section 3501.

(e) "Insurance producer" means that term as defined in section 1201.

(f) "Large employer" means an employer that is not a small employer as defined in section 3701.

(g) "Participating provider" means a provider that, under contract with an insurer that issues policies of health insurance or with such an insurer's contractor or subcontractor, has agreed to provide health care services to covered individuals and to accept payment by the insurer, contractor, or subcontractor for covered services as payment in full, other than coinsurance, copayments, or deductibles.

(h) "Safe, reliable, and entitled to public confidence" means that an insurer meets all of the following:

(i) With respect to its financial standards and conduct and discharge of its obligations to policyholders and creditors, has complied and continues to comply with the specific requirements of this act and, if relevant, the insurance codes or acts of its state of domicile and other states in which it is authorized to conduct an insurance business.

(ii) Has made and continues to make reasonable financial provisions and apply sound insurance principles so as to provide reasonable margins of financial safety with respect to the insurance and other obligations it has assumed and continues to assume such that the insurer will be able to discharge those obligations under any reasonable conditions and contingencies taking into account without limitation reasonably anticipated contingencies, including those affecting changes in the projections of liabilities, fluctuations in value of assets, alterations in projections as to when obligations may become due, and expected and unexpected new claims with respect to obligations.

(i) "Service area" means that term as defined in section 3501, unless the context requires otherwise.

(j) Except as used in chapters 24, 26, 72, 76, and 81, "subscriber" means an individual who enters into an insurance contract for health insurance, or on whose behalf an insurance contract for health insurance is entered into, with an insurer.

History: Add. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992 ;-- Am. 2016, Act 276, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2016
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500.118 Treatment of alien insurer as foreign insurer.

Sec. 118.

If an alien insurer is domiciled in a country other than the United States that has an agreement with the United States whereby each agrees to treat insurers domiciled in the other country the same as insurers domiciled in its own country, the alien insurer may apply for a certificate of authority as a foreign insurer pursuant to section 424. If the certificate of authority as a foreign insurer is granted, the alien insurer shall be treated as a foreign insurer under this act, but only to the extent that the other country and its political subdivisions in which the alien insurer is domiciled actually extend like treatment to insurers domiciled in the United States.

History: Add. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992
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500.120 Insurance, surety, or health maintenance organization transactions; compliance with act.

Sec. 120.

A person shall not transact an insurance, surety, or health maintenance organization business in this state, or relative to a subject resident, located or to be performed in this state, without complying with the applicable provisions of this act.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 2016, Act 276, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2016
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500.121 Surety; rights; remedies; relief.

Sec. 121.

(1) A person and a surety may agree to deposit any asset that the surety may be held responsible for into a financial institution that is authorized to transact business in this state in such manner as to prevent the withdrawal of the asset or any part of the asset except with the written consent of the surety or an order of the court made on such notice to the person and the surety as the court directs.

(2) A person acting in a fiduciary capacity who is required to obtain a bond may include the cost of obtaining the bond as part of the expense of acting as a fiduciary if allowed by the court to which the fiduciary is required to account and so long as the cost does not exceed 1% annually of the bond amount or an amount otherwise approved by the commissioner. The surety on a bond under this subsection may apply to the court for an order relieving the surety of liability for future acts of the fiduciary. Following notice and a hearing, the court may enter an order discharging the surety from liability arising out of acts or omissions occurring after the date of the order on such terms and conditions as the court considers necessary to protect the fiduciary estate and its beneficiaries.

(3) A person required to furnish a bond may use any surety that holds a certificate of authority issued under this chapter and so long as the amount of the bond is within the surety's risk limitation under section 640.

(4) Upon payment of the obligation secured by the bond, a surety is subrogated to the rights of the party to whom it made payment including any security or priority to which its subrogor was entitled.

(5) The corporate surety on a bond shall be released or discharged from its liability on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to the release or discharge of individual sureties. A surety has all rights, remedies, and relief to which an individual guarantor or indemnitor would be entitled.

History: Add. 2001, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2001
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500.122 Applicability of Michigan antitrust reform act.

Sec. 122.

Transactions or conduct authorized, prohibited, or permitted under a regulatory scheme under this code shall not be subject to the Michigan antitrust reform act, Act No. 274 of the Public Acts of 1984, being sections 445.771 to 445.788 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The fact that a transaction or conduct concerns the business of insurance shall not exempt it from the Michigan antitrust reform act unless the activity has been authorized, prohibited, or permitted under a regulatory scheme under this code.

History: Add. 1986, Act 173, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1986
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500.124 Exceptions.

Sec. 124.

This code shall not apply to:

(a) Domestic farmers' and other special risk mutual property insurers, as identified in chapter 68, except as stated in chapter 68.

(b) Fraternal benefit societies, except as stated in chapter 81a.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 121, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1986 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 1, Eff. Apr. 1, 1990
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500.125 Service contract not subject to act; "consumer product" and "service contract" defined.

Sec. 125.

(1) A service contract is not insurance or the business of insurance and is not subject to this act.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Consumer product" means any tangible personal property that is distributed in commerce and is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, including any tangible personal property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property without regard to whether it is so attached or installed.

(b) "Service contract" means a written contract that is sold for stated consideration for a specific duration that provides any of the following:

(i) To perform or provide reimbursement for the repair, replacement, or maintenance of a consumer product because of the operational or structural failure of the consumer product due to a defect in materials or workmanship; accidental damage from handling, power surge, or interruption; or normal wear and tear, with or without additional provisions for incidental payment of indemnity under limited circumstances, including, but not limited to, towing, rental, and emergency road service.

(ii) The repair or replacement or indemnification for the repair or replacement of a motor vehicle for the operational or structural failure of 1 or more parts or systems of the motor vehicle brought about by the failure of an additive product to perform as represented.

(iii) The repair or replacement of tires or wheels on a motor vehicle damaged as a result of coming into contact with road hazards, including, but not limited to, potholes, rocks, wood debris, metal parts, glass, plastic, curbs, or composite scraps.

(iv) The removal of dents, dings, or creases on a motor vehicle that can be repaired using the process of paintless dent removal without affecting the existing paint finish and without replacing vehicle body panels, sanding, bonding, or painting.

(v) The repair of small motor vehicle windshield chips or cracks, or if a windshield cannot be repaired, the replacement of the windshield.

(vi) The replacement of an inoperable, lost, or stolen motor vehicle key or key fob.

History: Add. 2014, Act 110, Imd. Eff. Apr. 10, 2014
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500.126 Waiver of customer liability agreement; definitions.

Sec. 126.

(1) A waiver of customer liability agreement is not insurance or the business of insurance and is not subject to this act.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Service provider" means a public or private provider of electricity, natural gas, water, sewer, solid waste collection, or any other similar service, and any provider of communications services involving the transmission of data or any other information or signals utilizing any medium or method, including, but not limited to, cable or broadband service, IP-enabled voice service, cellular or mobile service, or any other similar service.

(b) "Waiver of customer liability agreement" means an optional agreement between a service provider and a customer of the service provider under which the service provider agrees, in return for a specified charge payable by the customer to the service provider, to waive all or a portion of the customer's liability to the service provider for incurred charges during a defined period in the event of any 1 or more of the following: the customer's call to active military service; involuntary unemployment; death; disability; hospitalization; marriage; divorce; evacuation; displacement due to natural disaster or other cause; qualification for family leave; or similar qualifying event or condition. A waiver of customer liability may be contained in the agreement under which the service provider provides services to the customer or in a separate agreement between the service provider and the customer.

History: Add. 2006, Act 432, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 2006
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500.127 Guaranteed asset protection waiver; certificate of authority or license not required; issuance not construed as insurance; definitions.

Sec. 127.

(1) A guaranteed asset protection waiver that is subject to the guaranteed asset protection waiver act is not insurance or the business of insurance and is not subject to this act.

(2) A person is not required to obtain a certificate of authority or license under this act to market, sell, or offer to sell guaranteed asset protection waivers in compliance with the guaranteed asset protection waiver act to borrowers.

(3) A guaranteed asset protection waiver issued before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section shall not be construed as insurance.

(4) As used in this section, "borrower" and "guaranteed asset protection waiver" mean those terms as defined in section 3 of the guaranteed asset protection waiver act.

History: Add. 2009, Act 230, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2010
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500.128 Additional exceptions.

Sec. 128.

This code shall not apply to:

(a) Nonprofit organizations of a purely philanthropic or social character, which may issue protection for the benefit of their members in amounts not to exceed $150.00 death benefit or $6.00 per week sickness or accident benefit upon compliance with provisions of the nonprofit corporation act, Act No. 162 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 450.2101 to 450.3192 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and with the further and additional requirements that commissions or fees shall not be charged in such transactions, nor shall these organizations be formed or operated principally or primarily for the purpose of issuing such policies or contracts of insurance.

(b) Organizations legally operating under exceptions to the application of the insurance code in force and effect heretofore, provided these organizations shall notify the commissioner of their intention to so continue, and shall furnish with that notice satisfactory proof of their eligibility under said exceptions. The commissioner shall not be required to accept any notice filed later than December 31, 1945.

(c) Those fraternal and other societies, orders, associations, and organizations exempted pursuant to section 8199, exempted fraternal societies and other organizations, but subject to the provisions of section 8199.

(d) Voluntary associations of employees which provide death, accident, or sickness benefits to persons employed by the same employer.

(e) The Mennonite aid association of Indiana and Michigan.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 318, Eff. June 1, 1987 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 1, Eff. Apr. 1, 1990
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500.129 Medical retainer agreement not subject to act.

Sec. 129.

(1) A medical retainer agreement is not insurance and is not subject to this act. Entering into a medical retainer agreement is not the business of insurance and is not subject to this act.

(2) A health care provider or agent of a health care provider is not required to obtain a certificate of authority or license under this act to market, sell, or offer to sell a medical retainer agreement.

(3) To be considered a medical retainer agreement for the purposes of this section, the agreement must meet all of the following requirements:

(a) Be in writing.

(b) Be signed by the health care provider or agent of the health care provider and the individual patient or his or her legal representative.

(d) Describe and quantify the specific routine health care services that are included in the agreement.

(e) Specify the fee for the agreement.

(f) Specify the period of time under the agreement.

(g) Prominently state in writing that the agreement is not health insurance.

(h) Prohibit the health care provider and the patient from billing an insurer or other third party payer for the services provided under the agreement.

(i) Prominently state in writing that the individual patient must pay the provider for all services not specified in the agreement and not otherwise covered by insurance.

(4) As used in this section:

(a) "Health care provider" means an individual or other legal entity that is licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized to provide a health care service in this state under the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211. Health care provider includes an individual or other legal entity alone or with others professionally associated with the individual or other legal entity.

(b) "Medical retainer agreement" means a contract between a health care provider and an individual patient or his or her legal representative in which the health care provider agrees to provide routine health care services to the individual patient for an agreed-upon fee and period of time.

(i) Screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for the purpose of promotion of health or the detection and management of disease or injury.

(ii) Medical supplies and prescription drugs that are dispensed in a health care provider's office or facility site.

(iii) Laboratory work including routine blood screening or routine pathology screening performed by a laboratory that meets either of the following requirements:

(A) Is associated with the health care provider that is a party to the medical retainer agreement.

(B) If not associated with the health care provider as described in sub-subparagraph (A), has entered into an agreement with the health care provider that is a party to the medical retainer agreement to provide the laboratory work without charging a fee to the patient for the laboratory work.

History: Add. 2014, Act 522, Eff. Mar. 31, 2015

***** 500.130.added THIS ADDED SECTION IS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 17, 2025 *****

500.130.added Peer-to-peer car sharing program; shared vehicle; insured interest.

Sec. 130.

(1) A peer-to-peer car sharing program has an insurable interest in a shared vehicle during the car sharing period.

(2) A peer–to–peer car sharing program may own and maintain as the named insured 1 or more policies of automobile insurance that provide coverage for any of the following:

(a) Liabilities assumed by the peer–to–peer car sharing program under a car sharing program agreement.

(b) Any liability of the shared vehicle owner.

(d) Any liability of the shared vehicle driver.

(3) A peer-to-peer car sharing program shall not do any of the following:

(a) Unless authorized, offer or sell insurance, except travel or auto-related insurance offered or sold in connection with and incidental to the sharing of a motor vehicle under a car sharing program agreement.

(b) Make a car sharing program agreement contingent on the shared vehicle driver purchasing residual third-party liability insurance through the peer-to-peer car sharing program.

(4) As used in this section, "car sharing period", "car sharing program agreement", "peer-to-peer car sharing program", "shared vehicle", "shared vehicle driver", and "shared vehicle owner" mean those terms as defined in section 3 of the peer-to-peer car sharing program act.

History: Add. 2024, Act 224, Eff. Oct. 17, 2025
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500.132 Saving clause; incumbent officers.

Sec. 132.

Continuation by this act of any state department or any office existing under any act repealed herein preserves such department and preserves the tenure of the individual holding such office at the effective date of this act.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
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500.134 Validity of certificate of authority or license in force prior to January 1, 1957; validity of plan of operation and premium or assessment; association or facility not state agency and money thereof not state money; records exempt from disclosure; premium or assessment not burden under MCL 500.476a; “association or facility” defined.

Sec. 134.

(1) Every certificate of authority or license in force immediately prior to January 1, 1957 and existing under any act repealed by this act is valid until its original expiration date, unless earlier terminated in accordance with this act.

(2) Any plan of operation adopted by an association or facility, and any premium or assessment levied against an insurer member of that association or facility, is hereby validated retroactively to the date of its original adoption or levy and shall continue in force and effect according to the terms of the plan of operation, premium, or assessment until otherwise changed by the commissioner or the board of directors of the association or facility pursuant to this act.

(3) An association or facility or the board of directors of the association or facility is not a state agency and the money of an association or facility is not state money.

(4) A record of an association or facility shall be exempted from disclosure pursuant to section 13 of the freedom of information act, Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, being section 15.243 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(5) Any premium or assessment levied by an association or facility, or any premium or assessment of a similar association or facility formed under a law in force outside this state, is not a burden or special burden for purposes of a calculation under section 476a, and any premium or assessment paid to an association or facility shall not be included in determining the aggregate amount a foreign insurer pays to the commissioner under section 476a.

(6) As used in this section, "association or facility" means an association of insurers created under this act and any other association or facility formed under this act as a nonprofit organization of insurer members, including, but not limited to, the following:

(a) The Michigan worker's compensation placement facility created under chapter 23.

(b) The Michigan basic property insurance association created under section 29.

(d) The Michigan automobile insurance placement facility created under chapter 33.

(e) The Michigan life and health insurance guaranty association created under chapter 77.

(f) The property and casualty guaranty association created under chapter 79.

(g) The assigned claims facility created under section 3171.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 349, Imd. Eff. Nov. 15, 1988 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 256, Imd. Eff. Oct. 15, 1990
Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of Act 349 of 1988 provides:The amendment to section 134 of Act No. 218 of the Public Acts of 1956, being section 500.134 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, pursuant to this amendatory act is intended to codify, approve, and validate the actions and long-standing practices taken by the associations and facilities mentioned in this amendatory act retroactively to the time of their original creation. It is the intent of this amendatory act to rectify the misconstruction of the applicability of the administrative procedures act of 1969 by the court of appeals in League General Insurance Company v Catastrophic Claims Association, Case No. 93744, December 21, 1987, with respect to the imposition of rule promulgation requirements on the catastrophic claims association as a state agency, and to further assure that the associations and facilities mentioned in this amendatory act, and their respective boards of directors, shall not hereafter be treated as a state agency or public body."
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500.140 Saving clause; existence of domestic insurer continued.

Sec. 140.

Any insurer heretofore formed or incorporated under any insurance law of this state, whose act of incorporation or act under which formed was repealed by Act No. 256 of the Public Acts of 1917 or is repealed by this act, shall continue to have a corporate existence (if a corporation) or existence (if other than a corporation), and shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities and limitations, obtained under such acts of incorporation or formation, as evidenced by their articles of incorporation, bylaws, power of attorney or constituent agreements made pursuant to such acts, as existing at the time this act takes effect; except, that all amendments to such articles of incorporation or powers of attorney or agreements shall be made hereafter in compliance with the provisions of this act, and all such insurers shall be otherwise governed by the provisions of this act. All reincorporations of such incorporated insurers, for the purpose of extending their corporate existence or for any other purpose shall be made only in compliance with this act, and any incorporated insurer heretofore incorporated under any insurance law of this state may reincorporate under this act.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
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500.142 Repealed. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992

Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to incorporation requirements for insurance companies.
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500.150 Violation of act; hearing; order of director; penalties; court order.

Sec. 150.

(1) Any person who violates any provision of this act for which a specific penalty is not provided under any other provision of this act or of other laws applicable to the violation must be afforded an opportunity for a hearing before the director under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. If the director finds that a violation has occurred, the director shall reduce the findings and decision to writing and issue and cause to be served on the person charged with the violation a copy of the findings and an order requiring the person to cease and desist from the violation. In addition, the director may order any of the following:

(a) Payment of a civil fine of not more than $1,000.00 for each violation. However, if the person knew or reasonably should have known that he or she was in violation of this act, the director may order the payment of a civil fine of not more than $5,000.00 for each violation. With respect to filings made under chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, and 26, "violation" means a filing not in compliance with those chapters and does not include an action with respect to an individual policy based on a noncomplying filing. An order of the director under this subdivision must not require the payment of civil fines exceeding $50,000.00. A fine collected under this subdivision must be turned over to the state treasurer and credited to the general fund.

(b) The suspension, limitation, or revocation of the person's license or certificate of authority.

(2) After notice and opportunity for hearing, the director may by order reopen and alter, modify, or set aside, in whole or in part, an order issued under this section if, in the director's opinion, conditions of fact or law have changed to require that action or the public interest requires that action.

(3) If a person knowingly violates a cease and desist order under this section and has been given notice and an opportunity for a hearing held under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, the director may order a civil fine of $20,000.00 for each violation, or a suspension, limitation, or revocation of the person's license, or both. A fine collected under this subsection must be turned over to the state treasurer and credited to the general fund.

(4) The director may apply to the court of claims for an order of the court enjoining a violation of this act.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957 ;-- Am. 1984, Act 7, Imd. Eff. Feb. 1, 1984 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992 ;-- Am. 2019, Act 21, Imd. Eff. June 11, 2019
Popular Name: Act 218
Popular Name: Essential Insurance

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Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 5 of 2025
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