50-6-404 - Bond or certificate. - Tennessee Statutes

50-6-404. Bond or certificate.

(a)  (1)  Every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state shall furnish a bond running to the state in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) with some surety company authorized to transact business in this state as surety, in the form approved by the commissioner of commerce and insurance, conditioned for the payment of compensation losses on policies issued by the company upon risks located in the state.

     (2)  Suit may be brought upon the bond by the division of workers' compensation for the use and benefit of any party or parties at interest.

     (3)  The annual license of the company shall not be issued or renewed until it has filed with the commissioner of commerce and insurance a bond as required in subdivision (a)(1).

     (4)  In lieu of the bond, a deposit of the same amount may be made with the state treasurer in the form of other security satisfactory to the commissioner of commerce and insurance.

(b)  The commissioner may, in the commissioner's discretion, accept, in lieu of the bond required in subdivision (a)(1), a certificate from the commissioner of insurance or other corresponding official of the state in which the insurance company is organized and domiciled, that the company has on deposit in such state the sum of not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in cash, or its equivalent, which deposit is for the protection of all of its policyholders, ratably.

[Acts 1933, ch. 158, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 6894; impl. am. Acts 1971, ch. 137, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1980, ch. 534, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 50-1204.]