56-10-110 - Authorized insurance business and regulatory authority. - Tennessee Statutes

56-10-110. Authorized insurance business and regulatory authority.

(a)  Nothing in this chapter shall affect the power of the commissioner to regulate, supervise and control insurance companies to the extent of and as provided by this title, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to authorize any insurance company to engage in any kind or kinds of insurance business not authorized by its charter, or to authorize any acquiring corporation that is not an insurance company to engage directly in the business of insurance.

(b)  Subsequent to the effective date of any plan of exchange, the commissioner, having regard to the findings stated in § 56-10-104, shall have authority to require that the affairs of the domestic company be conducted in a manner as to assure the continued safe conduct and transaction of the business of insurance of the domestic company.

[Acts 1968, ch. 448, § 6; impl. am. Acts 1971, ch. 137, § 2; T.C.A., § 56-3610.]