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40-254.

History: L. 1927, ch. 231, 40-254; Repealed, L. 2013, ch. 97, § 15; July 1.

Source or prior law:

L. 1871, ch. 93, §§ 18, 22, 23; L. 1885, ch. 131, § 29; L. 1885, ch. 132, § 26; L. 1889, ch. 161, § 3; L. 1905, ch. 270, §§ 1, 2; L. 1907, ch. 228, § 14; L. 1909, ch. 153, § 23; L. 1909, ch. 155, § 2; L. 1909, ch. 158, § 2; L. 1913, ch. 206, § 23; L. 1913, ch. 207, § 9; L. 1921, ch. 202, § 19; R.S. 1923, 40-115, 40-119, 40-121, 40-226, 40-335, 40-386, 40-406, 40-447, 40-1019, 40-1109; L. 1925, ch. 187, § 2.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Foreign insurance company must obtain certificate from auditor; certificate of authority without payment of license fee a nullity. Hartford Ins. Co. v. The State, 9 Kan. 210, 225, 226.

2. State empowered to bring quo warranto proceedings against insurance company. The State, ex rel., v. Ins. Co., 30 Kan. 585, 588, 2 P. 840.

3. License not revocable because agent divides commissions with nonresident agent. Maxwell v. Church, 62 Kan. 487, 63 P. 738.

4. Policy assignable although company has lost authority since issuing same. Bank v. Renn, 63 Kan. 334, 339, 65 P. 698.

5. Liability of agents causing insurance of goods in unauthorized company; application to fire insurance companies. Latham v. Harrod, 71 Kan. 565, 81 P. 214.

6. Mutual burial associations must comply with the statute. The State v. Burial Association, 73 Kan. 179, 84 P. 757.

7. The title of this act embraces this section; invalid provision does not impair statute's efficiency. Harrod v. Latham, 77 Kan. 466, 469, 95 P. 11.

8. Legislature empowered, owing to public interest, to regulate insurance rates. German Alliance Ins. Co. v. Lewis, 189 F. 769. Affirmed: 233 U.S. 389, 414, 415, 416, 34 S. Ct. 612, 58 L.Ed. 1011.

9. Discussed in holding commissioner's duty under K.S.A. 40-703 ministerial and not administrative. Fidelity Life Ass'n v. Hobbs, 161 Kan. 163, 172, 173, 166 P.2d 1001.

10. Tort of bad faith not recognized in Kansas. Spencer v. Aetna Life & Casualty Ins. Co., 227 Kan. 914, 923, 611 P.2d 149.


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