<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="9-224" title_number="9" title_name="Impaired Entities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Liquidation, Rehabilitation, Reorganization, and Conservation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “association” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Corporation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corporation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a similar organization in another state.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Within 120 days after a court of the State makes a final determination that an insurer is an impaired insurer, the Commissioner as receiver shall apply to the court for approval of a proposal to disperse to the association entitled to disbursements unsecured assets out of the marshalled assets of the impaired insurer as those assets become available.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The proposal for disbursement at a minimum shall provide for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>adequate cash reserves for payment of expenses of administration and priority claims;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>disbursements of the assets marshalled to date and subsequent disbursements of assets as they become available;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>equitable allocation of disbursements to each of the associations that is entitled to disbursements; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the securing by the Commissioner from each association entitled to disbursements under this section an agreement to return to the Commissioner any assets previously disbursed that may be required to pay:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>claims of secured creditors; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>claims that fall within the priorities specified in § 9-227(b) of this subtitle in accordance with those priorities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An association may not be required to obtain a bond.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The proposal for disbursement shall require that disbursement be made to the association:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in an amount at least equal to the payments made or to be made by the association for which the association could assert claims against the Commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in the amount of available assets, if the assets available for disbursement do not equal or exceed the amount of the payments made or to be made by the association.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notice of the application for approval of the proposal for disbursement shall be given to the associations and insurance commissioners of each state.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice is deemed to have been given if sent by certified mail at least 30 days before submission of the application to the court.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The court may approve the proposal if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the required notice has been given under this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the proposal complies with subsection (c)(1) and (4) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
