Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1739 - Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements

• Section 1739.01 - Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement Definitions.
  As used in sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agreement" means a written agreement executed by members of a multiple employer...
• Section 1739.011 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1987
• Section 1739.02 - Group Self-insurance Program Under Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement.
  (A) The following groups that have been organized and maintained in good faith for a continuous period of five years or more for purposes...
• Section 1739.03 - Certificate Of Authority Issued By Superintendent Of Insurance.
  (A) No employer shall enter into an agreement to participate in a group self-insurance program unless the multiple employer welfare arrangement has been issued...
• Section 1739.04 - Application Procedure.
  (A) The superintendent of insurance shall examine the application made under section 1739.03 of the Revised Code to determine whether the multiple employer welfare...
• Section 1739.05 - Minimum Enrollment.
  (A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement that is created pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code and that operates a group...
• Section 1739.051 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1987
• Section 1739.06 - Filing Information With Superintendent.
  (A) No certificate shall be furnished by any multiple employer welfare arrangement in connection with, or pursuant to any group self-insurance program, nor shall...
• Section 1739.061 - Standardized Prescription Identification Information - Pharmacy Benefits To Be Included.
  (A) (1) This section applies to both of the following: (a) A multiple employer welfare arrangement that issues or requires the use of a...
• Section 1739.07 - Voluntary Termination By Member.
  (A) (1) Unless otherwise stated in the agreement, a member may elect to terminate voluntarily its participation in a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating...
• Section 1739.08 - Powers Of Board Of Trustees.
  (A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement created pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code shall be operated by a board of...
• Section 1739.09 - Annual Report.
  (A) Each multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program, no later than the thirty-first day of March, shall make and file with...
• Section 1739.10 - Examinations By Superintendent.
  The superintendent of insurance, or any person appointed by him, may examine, as often as he considers it necessary, the affairs of a multiple...
• Section 1739.11 - Determining Financial Capacity Of Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement.
  In determining the financial capacity of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program to pay employee welfare benefit obligations promptly and...
• Section 1739.12 - Excess Loss Funding Program.
  (A) The excess loss funding program of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall be filed with the superintendent of...
• Section 1739.13 - Minimum Surplus - Investment And Maintenance Of Assets.
  (A) A multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall maintain a minimum surplus of not less than five hundred thousand dollars...
• Section 1739.14 - Payment Of Premiums By Members.
  (A) Each member shall pay to the multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program a premium equal to its share of the...
• Section 1739.141 - Annual Filing Requirements.
  (A) Each multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall file annually with the superintendent of insurance an actuarial certification including a...
• Section 1739.15 - Liability Of Members.
  (A) A member of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program is liable for all legal obligations of the arrangement, including...
• Section 1739.16 - Contracts With Third-party Administrator.
  (A) If a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program contracts with a third-party administrator that is not an employee of the...
• Section 1739.17 - Fiduciary Status Of Trustee, Officer Or Third-party Administrator.
  A trustee, officer, or third-party administrator of a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program that receives, collects, disburses, or invests money...
• Section 1739.18 - Contracts With Third-party Administrators.
  A multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall contract only with a third-party administrator that meets all of the following conditions:...
• Section 1739.19 - Member And Employees Deemed Insureds Or Policyholders.
  (A) For the purpose of determining whether a multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program has violated any provision of the Revised...
• Section 1739.20 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No multiple employer welfare arrangement operating a group self-insurance program shall do any of the following: (1) Refuse, without just cause, to pay...
• Section 1739.201 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1987
• Section 1739.21 - Fines - Probation.
  (A) The superintendent of insurance, after notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may impose a fine...
• Section 1739.211 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1987
• Section 1739.22 - Rules.
  All rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance pursuant to sections 1739.01 to 1739.22 of the Revised Code shall be adopted in accordance with...
• Section 1739.23 To 1739.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1987
• Section 1739.27 - Requiring Valid Certificate Of Authority.
  No insurance agent, broker, or other person shall advertise, solicit, negotiate, collect a premium on, or sell any enrollment in, a group self-insurance program...
• Section 1739.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 1739.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates...

Last modified: October 10, 2016