California Insurance Code

§ 1560.07

INS § 1560.07 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 17

Statute text

Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prohibit the inclusion in the plan of conversion of provisions under which the insurer’s officers, directors, employees, agents, and employee benefit plans for their benefit may be entitled, in accordance with reasonable classifications of those individuals and employee benefit plans as may be included in the plan, to purchase for cash, at the same price as offered to the public in the initial public offering, voting stock not purchased by subscribers upon exercise of subscription rights. Nothing in this code shall be deemed to prohibit the establishment of stock option, incentive, and share ownership plans customary for publicly traded companies in the same and similar industries. The plan may not permit those persons to acquire any of the following:

(a)Greater than 25 percent of the voting stock issued pursuant to the plan for a domestic reciprocal insurer having assets in excess of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) or 35 percent for a domestic reciprocal insurer having assets of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) or less.

(b)Greater than 25 percent of the stockholders’ equity for a medical malpractice reciprocal insurer having assets in excess of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) or 35 percent for a medical malpractice reciprocal insurer having assets of less than two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000).

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 421, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.