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INSURANCE
(215 ILCS 5/) Illinois Insurance Code.

215 ILCS 5/179E-85

    (215 ILCS 5/179E-85)
    Sec. 179E-85. Asset and investment limitations.
    (a) Assets of the SPRV held in trust to secure obligations under the SPRV contract must at all times be held in:
        (1) cash and cash equivalents;
        (2) securities listed by the Securities Valuation
    
Office of the NAIC and qualifying as admitted assets under statutory accounting convention in its state of domicile; and
        (3) any other form of security acceptable to the
    
Director.
    (b) An SPRV may enter into swap agreements or other transactions that have the objective of leveling timing differences in funding of up-front or ongoing transaction expenses or managing credit or interest rate risk of the investments in the trust to ensure that the investments are sufficient to assure payment or repayment of:
        (1) the securities (and related interest or principal
    
payments) issued pursuant to an SPRV insurance securitization transaction; or
        (2) the SPRV's obligations under the SPRV contract.
(Source: P.A. 92-124, eff. 7-20-01.)

215 ILCS 5/179E-90

    (215 ILCS 5/179E-90)
    Sec. 179E-90. Credit for reinsurance for the SPRV contract. An SPRV contract meeting the requirements under this Article shall be granted credit for reinsurance treatment or shall otherwise qualify as an asset or a reduction from liability for reinsurance ceded by a domestic insurer to an assuming insurer under Section 173.1 of this Code for the benefit of the ceding insurer, provided and only to the extent that (i) the fair value of the assets held in trust for the benefit of the ceding insurer equal or exceed the obligations due and payable to the ceding insurer by the SPRV under the SPRV contract, (ii) the assets are held in trust in accordance with the requirements set forth in this Article, (iii) the assets are administered in the manner and pursuant to arrangements as set forth in this Article, and (iv) the assets are held or invested in one or more of the forms allowed in Section 179E-85.
(Source: P.A. 92-124, eff. 7-20-01.)

215 ILCS 5/179E-95

    (215 ILCS 5/179E-95)
    Sec. 179E-95. Insurance securitization deemed not to be transaction of insurance business. The securities issued by the SPRV under an SPRV insurance securitization shall not be deemed to be insurance or reinsurance contracts. An investor in securities issued pursuant to an SPRV insurance securitization or any holder of those securities shall not, by sole means of the investment or holding, be deemed to be transacting an insurance business in this State. The underwriters or selling agents (and their partners, directors, officers, members, managers, employees, agents, representatives, and advisors) involved in an SPRV insurance securitization shall not be deemed to be conducting an insurance or reinsurance agency, brokerage, intermediary, advisory, or consulting business by virtue of their activities in connection therewith.
(Source: P.A. 92-124, eff. 7-20-01.)

215 ILCS 5/179E-100

    (215 ILCS 5/179E-100)
    Sec. 179E-100. Authority to adopt rules. The Director may promulgate rules necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Article. Any rules so promulgated will not affect any existing SPRV insurance securitization in effect at the time of the promulgation.
(Source: P.A. 92-124, eff. 7-20-01.)

215 ILCS 5/Art. XII

 
    (215 ILCS 5/Art. XII heading)
ARTICLE XII. DOMESTICATION OF
FOREIGN AND ALIEN COMPANIES

215 ILCS 5/180

    (215 ILCS 5/180) (from Ch. 73, par. 792)
    Sec. 180. Companies that may domesticate.
    (1) Any domestic, foreign, or alien stock company, mutual company, assessment legal reserve company, reciprocal, or fraternal benefit society, authorized or which may be authorized to do business in this State, may reorganize under the laws of this State (including a reorganization as a captive insurance company under the laws of this State), by complying with the provisions of this Article.
    (2) As used in this Article: "reorganize" means reorganize, reincorporate, or domesticate as an Illinois insurer; "reorganization" means reorganization, reincorporation, or domestication as an Illinois insurer; "reorganized company" means any company that has availed itself of the provisions of this Article, and the reorganization of which has been effected as in this Article provided; and "similar domestic company" means, in the case of an application for reorganization as a domestic captive insurance company, a domestic captive insurance company organized under Article VIIC.
(Source: P.A. 87-1216.)

215 ILCS 5/181

    (215 ILCS 5/181) (from Ch. 73, par. 793)
    Sec. 181. Articles of reorganization. (1) The board of directors, trustees or other governing body of any such company desiring to reorganize under this Article shall comply with all laws and requirements of its domiciliary state or country with reference to reorganization under the laws of another state or country.
    (2) Such board of directors, trustees or other governing body shall adopt a resolution approving articles of reorganization setting forth:
    (a) the name of the company; and if the name of the company upon reorganization is to be changed, the proposed name of the reorganized company;
    (b) the title of the act under which it was organized or incorporated;
    (c) the matters required to be set forth in original articles of incorporation of a similar domestic company;
    (d) that it shall be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Code, applicable to similar domestic companies organized or incorporated thereunder; and
    (e) such other particulars as are deemed necessary or advisable.
(Source: P.A. 86-632; 86-634; 86-1028.)

215 ILCS 5/182

    (215 ILCS 5/182) (from Ch. 73, par. 794)
    Sec. 182. Execution of articles.
    The articles of reorganization shall be executed in duplicate by the president or vice-president, and secretary or assistant secretary of the company, or the executive officers corresponding thereto, and shall be acknowledged and sworn to.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/183

    (215 ILCS 5/183) (from Ch. 73, par. 795)
    Sec. 183. Certificate of Reorganization - Date Reorganization Effected. (1) Upon the execution of the articles of reorganization there shall be delivered to the Director
    (a) two duplicate originals of the articles;
    (b) a copy of the resolution of the board of directors, trustees or other governing body, adopting said articles, duly certified by the secretary of the company or officer corresponding thereto;
    (c) information satisfactory to the Director that the company has complied with all the laws and requirements of the domiciliary state or country with reference to the proposed reorganization and the protection of policyholders; and
    (d) securities of the kind and amount, if any, required as a deposit of a similar domestic company doing the same kind or kinds of business proposed to be done by the reorganized company.
    (2) If the Director finds that the articles of reorganization are in accordance with the provisions of this Article, and that the company has complied with all provisions of this Code applicable to similar domestic companies, he shall approve the articles of reorganization and shall forthwith file one of the duplicate originals of the articles, together with the resolution and certificate of reorganization and certificate of authority, in his office, endorse upon the other duplicate original, his approval thereof, and deliver it together with a certificate of reorganization and a certificate of authority to the reorganized company. Upon such filing, the reorganization of the company shall be effected.
(Source: P.A. 85-131.)

215 ILCS 5/184

    (215 ILCS 5/184) (from Ch. 73, par. 796)
    Sec. 184. Recording Articles of Reorganization. The articles of reorganization, approved by the Director and returned to the reorganized company, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder in the county where the principal office of the reorganized company is to be located.
(Source: P.A. 85-131.)

215 ILCS 5/185

    (215 ILCS 5/185) (from Ch. 73, par. 797)
    Sec. 185. Board of directors, trustees, etc. to continue.
    The directors, trustees, or members of any other governing body of the company so reorganized, shall become the directors, trustees or members of the governing body of the reorganized company and shall hold office until their successors are elected or chosen in the manner provided therefor by the articles of reorganization.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/185.1

    (215 ILCS 5/185.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 797.1)
    Sec. 185.1. Effect of Reorganization.
    When the reorganization has been effected:
    (a) The articles of reorganization shall be the articles of incorporation of the reorganized company and said company shall continue in existence as, and thereafter be, a company of this State.
    (b) The reorganized company shall make its reports in accordance with the laws of this State and shall be subject to the exclusive regulation and supervision by the Department of Insurance of this State and shall be subject to regulation and supervision by the Insurance Departments of other states and countries as a foreign or alien company.
    (c) The reorganized company shall have all of the rights, privileges, immunities and powers and shall be subject to all of the duties and liabilities granted or imposed by this Code (except in the case of a domestic captive insurance company, which shall have all of the rights, privileges, immunities and powers and shall be subject to all of the duties and liabilities granted or imposed by Article VIIC of this Code).
    (d) The reorganized company shall thereupon and thereafter possess all the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of a public as well as a private nature, theretofore possessed by the company so reorganized. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) the agency appointments, licenses, certificates of authority and rates which are in existence at the time of the reorganization of such reorganized company takes effect shall continue in full force and effect; (ii) all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due on whatever account, including subscriptions to shares, assessments payable from members or policyholders, and all other choses in action, and all and every other interest of, or belonging to or due to the company so reorganized, shall be deemed to be transferred to and vested in the reorganized company without further act or deed; and (iii) the title to any real estate or any interest therein theretofore vested in the company so reorganized, shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of such reorganization.
    (e) The reorganized company shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all the liabilities and obligations of the company so reorganized. Any claim existing, or action or proceeding pending by or against the company so reorganized, may be prosecuted to judgment as if such reorganization had not taken place, or such reorganized company may be substituted in its place. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of the company so reorganized, shall be impaired by such reorganization, but such liens shall be limited to the property upon which they were liens immediately prior to the reorganization, unless otherwise provided in the articles of reorganization.
(Source: P.A. 85-131.)

215 ILCS 5/185.2

    (215 ILCS 5/185.2) (from Ch. 73, par. 797.2)
    Sec. 185.2. Conversion to Foreign Insurer. Any domestic insurer may, upon the approval of the Director, transfer its domicile to any other state in which it is admitted to transact the business of insurance, and upon such a transfer shall cease to be a domestic insurer. The Director shall approve any such proposed transfer unless he shall determine such transfer is not in the interest of the policyholders of this State.
(Source: P.A. 85-131.)

215 ILCS 5/Art. XII.5

 
    (215 ILCS 5/Art. XII.5 heading)
ARTICLE XII 1/2. CORRECTIVE ORDERS

215 ILCS 5/186.1

    (215 ILCS 5/186.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 798.1)
    Sec. 186.1. Supervision by the Director. (1)If the Director determines that any domestic insurance company is operating in a manner, that could lead to, or is in, a financial condition, which if continued would make it hazardous to the public, and its policyholders, the Director may issue an order:
    (a) notifying the company and its Board of Directors of his determination and setting forth the specific deficiencies leading to the determination;
    (b) setting forth the specific action required or prohibited to correct the cited deficiencies; and
    (c) ordering the company to comply with the Director's order within such reasonable time as the Director shall prescribe.
    (2) Operation or financial condition deficiencies supporting the Director's determination under subsection (1) may include, but are not limited to, the following:
    (a) The company has failed to maintain a relationship of policyholder surplus to premium writings or policyholder surplus to claim and unearned premium reserves which provides a reasonable margin of safety for the policyholders considering the classes of insurance the company is writing.
    (b) The company's asset liquidity is not adequate to provide orderly payment of its obligations.
    (c) The company's current or projected net income is inadequate to meet its present or projected obligations.
    (d) The company has a history of claim reserve inadequacy which affects the reliability of its financial statements.
    (e) The company has failed to maintain adequate books and records or has otherwise conducted its insurance operation in a manner which impairs the Director's ability to determine its true financial condition.
    (3) If a company fails to comply with the Director's order issued pursuant to subsection (1) within the time prescribed for such compliance the Director may institute proceedings for the conservation, rehabilitation or liquidation of the company under Article XIII of this Code.
    (4)(a) The Director may require that the company prepare and file a plan to correct the deficiencies cited by the Director in his order within such time as the Director may prescribe. A corrective order may require, prohibit or permit certain acts subject to conditions including the Director's prior approval. The scope of a corrective order may relate to but shall not be limited to:
    (i) the disposition, recovery or mix of assets;
    (ii) the assumption or cession of reinsurance, including reinsurance of outstanding risks;
    (iii) lending and borrowing;
    (iv) investments;
    (v) restricting underwriting and marketing activities.
    (b) The Director may require that any company under such corrective order direct any certified public accountants, consulting actuary or financial consultant retained by the company to prepare for the Director such reports, accounting data and such other reports as the Director may reasonably require to assist in carrying out the responsibilities of the Director under this Section.
    (5)(a) Any company subject to an order under subsections (1) or (4) may request a hearing before the Director to review that order. Such request shall be made in writing within 10 days of the receipt of such order, shall state the company's objections to the order, and shall be addressed to the Director. Such hearing shall be convened not less than 10 days nor more than 20 days after receipt of the written request for hearing unless otherwise agreed to by the company. The Director shall make a final determination within 10 days after the conclusion of the hearing. The Director shall hold all hearings under this subsection privately in accordance with subsection (6) of this Section. The pendency of a hearing or pendency of the Director's final determination shall not stay the effect of the Director's order.
    (b) After the Director's final determination pursuant to any hearing under this subsection, any party to the proceedings whose interests are affected by the Director's final determination shall be entitled to judicial review of such final determination pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Review Law".
    Notwithstanding the availability of administrative remedies or judicial review under the "Administrative Review Law", a company which is subject to an order of the Director under this Section shall be entitled to immediate judicial review and injunctive relief in the Circuit Court of Cook County or the Circuit Court of Sangamon County upon satisfying the court:
    (i) that accepting the facts set forth in the order as true, the order is arbitrary or capricious;
    (ii) that the company's interests are substantially impaired by the order; and
    (iii) that the company will suffer permanent injury in the absence of immediate injunctive relief.
    (6) All administrative and judicial proceedings arising under this Article shall be held privately unless a public hearing is requested by the company, and all records of the company, and all records of the Department concerning the company, so far as they pertain to or are a part of the record of the proceedings, shall be and remain confidential, unless the company requests otherwise. Such records shall not be subject to public disclosure under "The Illinois Freedom of Information Act", certified December 27, 1983, as amended, or otherwise, nor shall such records be subject to subpoena by third parties, unless the company and Director consent to such disclosure or release under subpoena.
    (7) The powers vested in the Director by this Section are additional to any and all other powers and remedies vested in the Director by law, and nothing herein contained shall prohibit the Director from proceeding under any other applicable law or under this Section in conjunction with any other law.
(Source: P.A. 84-715.)

215 ILCS 5/186.2

    (215 ILCS 5/186.2) (from Ch. 73, par. 798.2)
    Sec. 186.2. (1) Any officer, manager, director, trustee, owner, employee, or agent of any insurer, or any other person with authority over or in charge of any segment of the company's affairs, shall cooperate with the Director in any proceeding under this Article or any investigation preliminary to the proceeding. The term "person" as used in this Section shall include any person who exercises control directly or indirectly over activities of the company through any holding company or other affiliate of the company. To "cooperate" shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
    (a) to reply promptly in writing to any inquiry from the Director of Insurance requesting such a reply; and
    (b) to make available to the Director any books, accounts, documents, or other records or information or property of or pertaining to the company and in such person's possession, custody or control.
    (2) No person shall obstruct or interfere with the Director in the conduct of any proceeding under Sections 186.1 and 186.2 or any investigation preliminary or incidental thereto.
    (3) This Section shall not be construed to abridge otherwise existing legal rights, including the right to contest any order issued under this Code.
    (4) Any person who obstructs or interferes with the Director in the conduct of any proceeding or investigation under this Article, or who violates any valid order issued under this Article shall be subject to civil forfeitures, fines or penalties pursuant to Sections 134, 149, 403A and 505.1 of this Code.
(Source: P.A. 84-715.)

215 ILCS 5/Art. XIII

 
    (215 ILCS 5/Art. XIII heading)
ARTICLE XIII. REHABILITATION, LIQUIDATION, CONSERVATION AND DISSOLUTION OF
COMPANIES

215 ILCS 5/187

    (215 ILCS 5/187) (from Ch. 73, par. 799)
    Sec. 187. Scope of Article.
    (1) This Article shall apply to every corporation, association, society, order, firm, company, partnership, individual, and aggregation of individuals to which any Article of this Code is applicable, or which is subject to examination, visitation or supervision by the Director under any provision of this Code or under any law of this State, or which is engaging in or proposing or attempting to engage in or is representing that it is doing an insurance or surety business, or is undertaking or proposing or attempting to undertake to provide or arrange for health care services as a health care plan as defined in subsection (7) of Section 1-2 of the Health Maintenance Organization Act, including the exchanging of reciprocal or inter-insurance contracts between individuals, partnerships and corporations in this State, or which is in the process of organization for the purpose of doing or attempting or intending to do such business, anything as to any such corporation, association, society, order, firm, company, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals provided in this Code or elsewhere in the laws of this State to the contrary notwithstanding.
    (2) The word "company" as used in this Article includes all of the corporations, associations, societies, orders, firms, companies, partnerships, and individuals specified in subsections (1), (4), and (5) of this Section and agents, managing general agents, brokers, premium finance companies, insurance holding companies, and all other non-risk bearing entities or persons engaged in any aspect of the business of insurance on behalf of an insurer against which a receivership proceeding has been or is being filed under this Article, including, but not limited to, entities or persons that provide management, administrative, accounting, data processing, marketing, underwriting, claims handling, or any other similar services to that insurer, whether or not those entities are licensed to engage in the business of insurance in Illinois, if the entity or person is an affiliate of that insurer.
    (3) The word "court" shall mean the court before which the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation proceeding of the company is pending, or the judge presiding in such proceedings.
    (4) The word "affiliate" as used in this Article means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person specified.
    (5) The word "person" as used in this Article means an individual, an aggregation of individuals, a partnership, or a corporation.
    (6) The word "assets" as used in this Article includes all deposits and funds of a special or trust nature.
    (7) The words "receivership proceedings" mean any conservation, rehabilitation, liquidation, or ancillary receivership.
    (8) "Netting agreement", as used in this Article, means (a) a contract or agreement (including terms and conditions incorporated by reference therein), including a master agreement (which master agreement, together with all schedules, confirmations, definitions, and addenda thereto and transactions under any thereof, shall be treated as one netting agreement), that documents one or more transactions between the parties to the agreement for or involving one or more qualified financial contracts and that provides for the netting, liquidation, setoff, termination, acceleration, or close out under or in connection with one or more qualified financial contracts or present or future payment or delivery obligations or payment or delivery entitlements thereunder (including liquidation or close-out values relating to such obligations or entitlements) among the parties to the netting agreement; (b) any master agreement or bridge agreement for one or more master agreements described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (8); or (c) any security agreement or arrangement or other credit enhancement or guarantee or reimbursement obligation related to any contract or agreement described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection (8); provided that any contract or agreement described in paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subsection (8) relating to agreements or transactions that are not qualified financial contracts shall be deemed to be a netting agreement only with respect to those agreements or transactions that are qualified financial contracts.
    (9) "Qualified financial contract" means any commodity contract, forward contract, repurchase agreement, securities contract, swap agreement, or any similar agreement that the Director determines by regulation, resolution, or order to be a qualified financial contract for the purposes of this Act.
        (a) "Commodity contract" means:
            (1) a contract for the purchase or sale of a
        
commodity for future delivery on, or subject to the rules of, a board of trade or contract market under the federal Commodity Exchange Act or a board of trade outside the United States;
            (2) an agreement that is subject to regulation
        
under Section 19 of the federal Commodity Exchange Act and that is commonly known to the commodities trade as a margin account, margin contract, leverage account, or leverage contract;
            (3) an agreement or transaction that is subject
        
to regulation under Section 4c(b) of the federal Commodity Exchange Act and that is commonly known to the commodities trade as a commodity option;
            (4) any combination of the agreements or
        
transactions referred to in this paragraph (a); or
            (5) any option to enter into an agreement or
        
transaction referred to in this paragraph (a).
        (b) "Forward contract", "repurchase agreement",
    
"securities contract", and "swap agreement" shall have the meanings set forth in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1821(e)(8)(D), as amended from time to time.
(Source: P.A. 96-1450, eff. 8-20-10.)

215 ILCS 5/188

    (215 ILCS 5/188) (from Ch. 73, par. 800)
    Sec. 188. Grounds for rehabilitation and liquidation of a domestic company or an unauthorized foreign or alien company. Whenever any domestic company or any unauthorized foreign or alien company:
        1. is insolvent;
        2. has failed or refused to submit its books, papers,
    
accounts, records or affairs to the reasonable inspection or examination of the Director or his actuaries, supervisors, deputies, or examiners;
        3. has concealed, removed, altered, destroyed or
    
failed to establish and maintain books, records, documents, accounts, vouchers and other pertinent material adequate for the determination of its financial condition by examination under Sections 132 through 132.7 or has failed to properly administer claims and to maintain claims records which are adequate for the determination of its outstanding claims liability;
        4. has failed or refused to observe an order of the
    
Director to make good within the time prescribed by law any deficiency, whenever its capital and minimum required surplus, if a stock company, or its required surplus, if a company other than stock, has become impaired;
        5. has, by articles of consolidation, contract of
    
reinsurance or otherwise, transferred or attempted to transfer its entire property or business not in conformity with this Code, or entered into any transaction the effect of which is to merge substantially its entire property or business in any other company without having first obtained the written approval of the Director under this Code;
        6. is found to be in such condition that its further
    
transaction of business would be hazardous to its policyholders, or to its creditors, or to the public;
        7. has violated its charter or any law of this State
    
or has exceeded or is exceeding its corporate powers;
        8. has an officer who has refused upon reasonable
    
demand to be examined under oath touching its affairs;
        9. is found to be in such condition that it could not
    
meet the requirements for organization and authorization as required by law, except as to the amount of the original surplus required of a stock company in Section 13, and except as to the amount of the surplus required of a mutual company in excess of the minimum surplus required by this Code to be maintained, or either an authorized control level event or a mandatory control level event as set forth in Article IIA exists;
        10. has ceased for the period of one year to transact
    
insurance business;
        11. has commenced, or has attempted to commence, any
    
voluntary liquidation or dissolution proceeding, or any proceeding to procure the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, sequestrator, or a similar officer for itself;
        12. is a party, whether plaintiff or defendant in any
    
proceeding in which an application is made for the appointment of a receiver, custodian, liquidator, rehabilitator, sequestrator, or similar officer for such company or its property, or a receiver, custodian, liquidator, rehabilitator, sequestrator or similar officer, for such company or its property is appointed by any court, or such appointment is imminent;
        13. consents by a majority of its directors,
    
stockholders or members;
        14. has not organized and obtained a certificate
    
authorizing it to commence the transaction of its business within the period of time prescribed by the sections of this Code under which it is or proposes to be organized; or
        15. has failed or refused to pay any valid final
    
judgment within 30 days after the rendition thereof, or whenever it appears to the Director that any person has committed a violation of Article VIII 1/2 with the result described in Section 131.26,
sufficient grounds shall be deemed to exist for the commencement of rehabilitation or liquidation proceedings.
    With respect to a domestic company, the Director must report, and with respect to an unauthorized foreign or alien company, the Director may report any such case to the Attorney General of this State whose duty it shall be to apply forthwith by complaint on relation of the Director in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, as plaintiff, to the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, or the circuit court of the county in which such company has, or last had its principal office, for an order to rehabilitate or liquidate the defendant company as provided in this Article, and for such other relief as the nature of the case and the interests of its policyholders, creditors, members, stockholders or the public may require.
    When, upon investigation, the Director finds that a company is engaged in any aspect of the business of insurance on behalf of or in association with any domestic insurance company, against which a receivership proceeding has been or is being filed under this Article, in a manner that appears to be detrimental to policyholders, creditors, members, shareholders, or the public, the Director may report such case to the Attorney General of this State, whose duty it is to apply forthwith by complaint on relation of the Director in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, as plaintiff, to the court in which the receivership proceeding is pending for an order to appoint the Director as receiver to assume control of the assets and operation of the company pending a complete investigation and determination of the rights of the policyholders, creditors, members, shareholders, and the general public.
(Source: P.A. 92-140, eff. 7-24-01.)

215 ILCS 5/188.1

    (215 ILCS 5/188.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 800.1)
    Sec. 188.1. Provisions for conservation of assets of a domestic, foreign, or alien company.
    (1) Upon the filing by the Director of a verified complaint alleging (a) that with respect to a domestic, foreign, or alien company, whether authorized or unauthorized, a condition exists that would justify a court order for proceedings under Section 188, and (b) that the interests of creditors, policyholders or the public will probably be endangered by delay, then the circuit court of Sangamon or Cook County or the circuit court of the county in which such company has or last had its principal office shall enter forthwith without a hearing or prior notice an order directing the director to take possession and control of the property, business, books, records, and accounts of the company, and of the premises occupied by it for the transaction of its business, or such part of each as the complaint shall specify, and enjoining the company and its officers, directors, agents, servants, and employees from disposition of its property and from transaction of its business except with the concurrence of the Director until the further order of the court. Copies of the verified complaint and the seizure order shall be served upon the company.
    (2) The order shall continue in force and effect for such time as the court deems necessary for the Director to ascertain the condition and situation of the company. On motion of either party or on its own motion, the court may from time to time hold such hearings as it deems desirable, and may extend, shorten, or modify the terms of, the seizure order. So far as the court deems it possible, the parties shall be given adequate notice of such hearings. As soon as practicable, the court shall vacate the seizure order or terminate the conservation proceedings of the company, either when the Director has failed to institute proceedings under Section 188 having a reasonable opportunity to do so, or upon an order of the court pursuant to such proceedings.
    (3) Entry of a seizure order under this section shall not constitute an anticipatory breach of any contract of the company.
    (4) The court may hold all hearings in conservation proceedings privately in chambers, and shall do so on request of any officer of the company proceeded against.
    (5) In conservation proceedings and judicial reviews thereof, all records of the company, other documents, and all insurance department files and court records and papers, so far as they pertain to and are a part of the record of the conservation proceedings, shall be and remain confidential except as is necessary to obtain compliance therewith, unless and until the court, after hearing arguments in chambers from the Director and the company, shall decide otherwise, or unless the company requests that the matter be made public.
    (6) Any person having possession of and refusing to deliver any of the property, business, books, records or accounts of a company against which a seizure order has been issued shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/188.2

    (215 ILCS 5/188.2)
    Sec. 188.2. Grounds for and provisions applicable to rehabilitation or liquidation of a domestic company that is a covered financial company under the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
    (a) The provisions of this Section apply in accordance with Title II of the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, P.L. 111-203, with respect to an insurance company that is a covered financial company, as that term is defined under 12 U.S.C. 5381.
    (b) The Director may file a complaint for an order of rehabilitation or liquidation pursuant to Section 188 of this Code on any of the following grounds:
        (1) upon a determination and notification given by
    
the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (in consultation with the President of the United States) that the insurance company is a financial company satisfying the requirements of 12 U.S.C. 5383(b), and the board of directors (or body performing similar functions) of the insurance company acquiesces or consents to the appointment of a receiver pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 5382(a)(1)(A)(i), with such consent to be considered as consent to an order of rehabilitation or liquidation;
        (2) upon an order of the United States District Court
    
for the District of Columbia under 12 U.S.C. 5382(a)(1)(A)(iv)(I) granting the petition of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States concerning the insurance company under 12 U.S.C. 5382(a)(1)(A)(i); or
        (3) a petition by the Secretary of the Treasury of
    
the United States concerning the insurance company is granted by operation of law under 12 U.S.C. 5382(a)(1)(A)(v).
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Article, this Code, or any other law, after notice to the insurance company, the receivership court may grant an order on the complaint for rehabilitation or liquidation within 24 hours after the filing of a complaint pursuant to this Section.
    (d) If the receivership court does not make a determination on a complaint for rehabilitation or liquidation filed by the Director pursuant to this Section within 24 hours after its filing, then it shall be deemed granted by operation of law upon the expiration of the 24-hour period. At the time that an order is deemed granted under this Section, the provisions of Article XIII of this Code shall be deemed to be in effect, and the Director shall be deemed to be affirmed as receiver and have all of the applicable powers provided by this Code, regardless of whether an order has been entered. The receivership court shall expeditiously enter an order of rehabilitation or liquidation that:
        (1) is effective as of the date that it is deemed
    
granted by operation of law; and
        (2) conforms to the provisions for rehabilitation or
    
liquidation contained in Article XIII of this Code, as applicable.
    (e) Any order of rehabilitation or liquidation made pursuant to this Section shall not be subject to any stay or injunction pending appeal.
    (f) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to supersede or impair any other power or authority of the Director or the court under this Article or Code.
(Source: P.A. 98-136, eff. 8-2-13.)

215 ILCS 5/189

    (215 ILCS 5/189) (from Ch. 73, par. 801)
    Sec. 189. Injunction. The court shall have jurisdiction, upon, or at any time after the filing of the complaint to issue an injunction restraining such company and its officers, agents, directors, employees and all other persons from transacting any company business or disposing of its property until the further order of the court. The court may also restrain all persons, companies, and entities from bringing or further prosecuting all actions and proceedings at law or in equity or otherwise, whether in this State or elsewhere, against the company or its assets or property or the Director except insofar as those actions or proceedings arise in or are brought in the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation proceeding. The court may issue such other injunctions or enter such other orders as may be deemed necessary to prevent interference with the proceedings, or with the Director's possession and control or title, rights or interests as herein provided or to prevent interference with the conduct of the business by the Director, and may issue such other injunctions or enter such other orders as may be deemed necessary to prevent waste of assets or the obtaining, asserting, or enforcing of preferences, judgments, attachments, or other like liens, including common law retaining liens, or the making of any levy against such company or its property and assets while in the possession and control of the Director. The court may issue any other injunctions or enter any other orders that are necessary to protect enrollees in accordance with subsection (c) of Section 5-6 of the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Any injunction issued under this article may be served and enforced as in other civil proceedings, but no bond or other security shall be required of the plaintiff, either for costs or for any injunction. The provisions of this Section are subject to the exclusion set forth in subsection (o) of Section 204 of this Article.
(Source: P.A. 100-89, eff. 8-11-17.)

215 ILCS 5/190

    (215 ILCS 5/190) (from Ch. 73, par. 802)
    Sec. 190. Practice, hearing, order and appeal.
    (1) The defendant company shall appear within 10 days after the service of the summons as in this Article provided, exclusive of the day of service. If, on the return day of the summons the defendant shall enter its appearance in the action and apply for further time in which to answer, the court shall, upon request of the defendant, extend the time for answering for a period not to exceed 10 days from said return day. If the defendant fails to answer on the return day or within the time granted, or fails to appear, the court shall proceed to hear and determine the cause as herein provided.
    (2) The court, on the return day of the summons as originally fixed or extended hereunder, shall set the cause for hearing on some day not exceeding 20 days from the return day, or the extended return day as herein provided.
    (3) No motions or other pleadings, whether to dissolve, modify or continue any injunction or otherwise, shall be filed by, or permitted on behalf of the defendant prior to the filing of an answer to the complaint. All pleadings shall be filed within the time herein provided.
    (4) The pleadings and proceedings insofar as not otherwise regulated by this Article, shall be as in other civil proceedings.
    (5) Upon the hearing, at which the complaint and any exhibits filed therewith shall be received as prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited, the court shall enter an order either dismissing the complaint or finding that sufficient cause exists for rehabilitation or liquidation and directing the Director to take possession of the property, business and affairs of such company and to rehabilitate or liquidate the same as the case may be. The Director shall be responsible on his official bond for all assets coming into his possession.
    (6) An appeal, if taken from such order, shall be prosecuted on an expedited basis as provided for in such cases by Illinois Supreme Court Rule 307.
    (7) A claim for attorneys' fees incurred by the company in contesting its conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation may be filed in the proceedings, and the claim may be allowed upon a showing that (i) the attorneys' fees incurred are reasonable; (ii) the board of directors of the company incurred such attorneys' fees based upon their best knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry indicating such contention is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument of the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law; and (iii) the contention is not pursued for any improper purpose, including harassment, unnecessary delay in the proceedings, or waste of estate assets. Such claims, if allowed, shall be accorded a priority of distribution under paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of Section 205. This subsection (7) applies to all liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation proceedings that are pending on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993 and to all future liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation proceedings.
(Source: P.A. 88-297; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/190.1

    (215 ILCS 5/190.1) (from Ch. 73, par. 802.1)
    Sec. 190.1. Appeal of order directing liquidation - special claims procedure.
    (1) Within 5 days of the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1982, or, if later, within 5 days after the filing of a notice of appeal of an order of liquidation, which order has not been stayed, the Director shall present for the circuit court's approval a plan for the continued performance of the defendant company's policy claims obligations, including the duty to defend insureds under liability insurance policies, during the pendency of an appeal. Such plan shall provide for the continued performance and payment of policy claims obligations in the normal course of events, notwithstanding the grounds alleged in support of the order of liquidation including the ground of insolvency. In the event the defendant company's financial condition will not, in the judgment of the Director, support the full performance of all policy claims obligations during the appeal pendency period, the plan may prefer the claims of certain policyholders and claimants over creditors and interested parties as well as other policyholders and claimants, as the Director finds to be fair and equitable considering the relative circumstances of such policyholders and claimants. The circuit court shall examine the plan submitted by the Director and if it finds the plan to be in the best interests of the parties, the circuit court shall approve the plan. No action shall lie against the Director or any of his deputies, agents, clerks, assistants or attorneys by any party based on preference in an appeal pendency plan approved by the circuit court.
    (2) The appeal pendency plan shall not supersede or affect the obligations of any insurance guaranty fund which under its own state law is required to pay covered claims obligations during the appeal pendency period.
(Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)

215 ILCS 5/191

    (215 ILCS 5/191) (from Ch. 73, par. 803)
    Sec. 191. Title to property of company. The Director and his successor and successors in office shall be vested by operation of law with the title to all property, contracts, and rights of action of the company as of the date of the order directing rehabilitation or liquidation. The Director is entitled to immediate possession and control of all property, contracts, and rights of action of the company, and is further authorized and directed to remove any and all records and property of the company to the Director's possession and control or to such other place as may be convenient for the purposes of efficient and orderly administration of the rehabilitation or liquidation. All persons, companies, and entities shall immediately release their possession and control of any and all property, contracts, and rights of action of the company to the Director including, but not limited to, bank accounts and bank records, premium and related records, and claim, underwriting, accounting, and litigation files. The entry of an order of rehabilitation or liquidation creates an estate that comprises all of the liabilities and assets of the company. The filing or recording of such order in the office of the recorder or the Registrar of Titles in any county of this State shall impart the same notice that a deed, bill of sale or other evidence of title duly filed for record by such company would have imparted.
(Source: P.A. 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/192

    (215 ILCS 5/192) (from Ch. 73, par. 804)
    Sec. 192. Duties of Director as rehabilitator; termination.
    (1) Upon the entry of an order directing rehabilitation, the Director shall immediately proceed to conduct the business of the company and take such steps towards removal of the causes and conditions which have made such proceedings necessary as may be expedient.
    (2) The Director is authorized to deal with the property and business of the company in his name as Director, or, if the Court shall so order, in the name of the company. The Director may, subject to the approval of the Court, sell or otherwise dispose of the real and personal property, or any part thereof, and sell or compromise all doubtful or uncollectible debts or claims owing to the company in any rehabilitation proceeding now pending or hereafter instituted, except that whenever the value of any real or personal property or the amount of any such debt owing to the company does not exceed $25,000, the Director may sell, dispose of, compromise, or compound the same upon such terms as the Director deems to be in the best interest of the company without obtaining approval of the court unless otherwise directed by the court. The Director may solicit contracts whereby a solvent company agrees to assume, in whole or in part, or upon a modified basis, the liabilities of a company in rehabilitation in a manner consistent with subsection (4) of Section 193 of this Code.
    (3) The Director may bring any action, claim, suit, or proceeding against any director or officer of the company or against any other person with respect to that person's dealings with the company including, but not limited to, prosecuting any action, claim, suit, or proceeding on behalf of the creditors, members, policyholders, or shareholders of the company. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the standing of the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund, the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, or the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association to sue or be sued under applicable law.
    (4) If at any time the Director finds that it is in the best interests of policyholders, creditors and the company to effect a plan of mutualization or rehabilitation, the Director may submit such plan to the court for its approval. Such plan, in addition to any other terms and provisions as may by the Director be deemed necessary or advisable, may include a provision imposing liens upon the net equities of policyholders of the company, and in the case of life companies, a provision imposing a moratorium upon the loan or cash surrender values of the policies, for such period and to such an extent as may be necessary. Notice of the hearing upon any such plan shall be given in the manner as may be fixed by the court and upon such hearing the court may either approve or disapprove the plan or modify it in such manner and to such extent as to the court shall seem appropriate.
    (5) Where in such proceedings the Court has entered an order for the filing of claims and it subsequently appears that the total amount of all allowable claims exceed the assets in the possession of the Rehabilitator, the Court may upon the application of the Director authorize a distribution of assets in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 210. The Director may at such time apply under this Section for an order dissolving the company in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 196.
    (6) If at any time the Director finds that the causes and conditions which made such proceeding necessary have been removed he may petition the court for an order terminating the conduct of the business by the Director and permitting such company to resume possession of its property and the conduct of its business and for a full discharge of all liability and responsibility of the Director. No order for the return to such company of its property and business shall be granted unless the court after a full hearing determines that the purposes of the proceeding have been fully accomplished.
(Source: P.A. 89-206, eff. 7-21-95; 90-381, eff. 8-14-97.)

215 ILCS 5/193

    (215 ILCS 5/193) (from Ch. 73, par. 805)
    Sec. 193. Duties of Director as liquidator; sales; reinsurance.
    (1) Upon the entry of an order directing liquidation, the Director shall immediately proceed to liquidate the property, business, and affairs of the company. The Director is hereby authorized to deal with the property, business, and affairs of the company in his name as Director, or, if the court shall so order, in the name of the company.
    (2) The Director may, subject to the approval of the court, sell or otherwise dispose of the real and personal property, or any part thereof, and sell or compromise all debts or claims owing to the company, except that whenever the value of any real or personal property or the amount of any debt owing to the company does not exceed $25,000, the Director may sell, dispose of, compromise, or compound the same upon such terms as the Director deems to be in the best interest of the company without obtaining approval of the court.
    (3) The Director may bring any action, claim, suit, or proceeding against any director or officer of the company or against any other person with respect to that person's dealings with the company including, but not limited to, prosecuting any action, claim, suit, or proceeding on behalf of the creditors, members, policyholders, or shareholders of the company. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the standing of the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund, the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, or the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association to sue or be sued under applicable law.
    (4) In order to preserve so far as possible the rights and interests of the policyholders of the company whose contracts were cancelled by the liquidation order and of such other creditors as may be possible, the Director may solicit a contract or contracts whereby a solvent company or companies will agree to assume in whole, or in part, or upon a modified basis, the liabilities owing to said former policyholders or creditors. The Director may, subject to Section 531.08(h) of this Code or Section 6-8 of the Health Maintenance Organization Act, cede or reinsure all or so much as may be necessary of the in-force business to another company using assets of the liquidated company to pay therefor in preference to satisfying other obligations or creditors. The Director may assign any rights or interests of the company to receive reinsurance proceeds for losses to the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association or any similar organization in any other state. If, after a full hearing upon a petition filed by the Director, the court shall find that the Director endeavored to obtain the best contract for the benefit of said parties in interest, and if the said Director shall report to the court that he is ready and willing to enter into a contract and submit a copy thereof to the court, the court shall examine the procedure and acts of the Director, and if the court shall find that the best possible contract in the interests of said parties has been obtained and that it is best for the interests of said parties that said contract be entered into, the court shall by written order approve the acts of the Director and authorize him to execute said contract.
    (5) In recognition of the rights of policyholders whose "claims made" contracts were cancelled by the liquidation order, he may, in his discretion, permit such policyholders to purchase an extended discovery period which is subject to the limitations in this Article. The policyholder shall pay to the liquidator a premium which is appropriate for the rights purchased as determined by the liquidator and approved by the court. No extended discovery period purchased before or after the entry of the liquidation order shall extend the time to file claims as set by the court pursuant to Section 208 of this Code. Claims accruing by virtue of such extended discovery period shall be treated as any other claim under Article XXXIV of this Code, and shall be subject to the limitations, exclusions and conditions in the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund Act and in the laws governing similar organizations in other states.
    (6) The Director is authorized to cancel policies, bonds, and contracts of insurance subject to court approval.
    (7) All persons, companies, and entities shall immediately turn over to the Director all unearned premium that has been collected by or on behalf of the company and all earned premium owing the company unless otherwise directed in writing by the Director or by court order. Within 30 days of the date of a written request of the Director, those persons, companies, and entities shall submit affidavits verifying amounts collected by, on behalf of, or due and owing the company and further shall provide copies of all premium fund trust account information and such other applicable documentation as requested by the Director. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the rights of (i) the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association to collect premium under item (6) of Section 531.08 of this Code or (ii) the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association to collect premium under item (11) of Section 6-8 of the Health Maintenance Organization Act.
    (8) The amount recoverable by the Director from a reinsurer shall not be reduced or diminished as a result of the entry of an order of liquidation notwithstanding any provision in the reinsurance contract or other such agreement. Payment made by a reinsurer to or on behalf of an insured of the company shall not diminish the reinsurer's obligation to the company except when the reinsurance agreement lawfully provides for payment to or on behalf of the company's insured by the reinsurer. All reinsurance contracts to which the company is a party, which do not contain the provisions required with respect to the obligation of a reinsurer in the event of insolvency of the reinsured to obtain credit for reinsurance or pursuant to other applicable statutes, shall contain or be construed to contain all of the following provisions:
        (a) Upon the entry of an order of liquidation and
    
notwithstanding the Director's failure to pay all or a portion of a claim, the reinsurance obligation shall be due and owing to the Director on the basis of claims allowed in the liquidation proceeding. The reinsurer shall submit the amounts due and owing directly to the company as ceding insurer or to the Director.
        (b) The Director shall give written notice or arrange
    
for the giving of written notice to reinsurers or their agents of the pendency of a claim against the company indicating the policy or bond reinsured within a reasonable time after the claim is filed. The reinsurer may interpose, at its own expense, in the proceeding where the claim is to be adjudicated, any defenses that it may deem available to the company or the Director.
(Source: P.A. 88-297; 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/194

    (215 ILCS 5/194) (from Ch. 73, par. 806)
    Sec. 194. Rights and liabilities of creditors fixed upon liquidation.
    (a) The rights and liabilities of the company and of its creditors, policyholders, stockholders or members and all other persons interested in its assets, except persons entitled to file contingent claims, shall be fixed as of the date of the entry of the Order directing liquidation or rehabilitation unless otherwise provided by Order of the Court. The rights of claimants entitled to file contingent claims or to have their claims estimated shall be determined as provided in Section 209.
    (b) The Director may, within 2 years after the entry of an order for rehabilitation or liquidation or within such further time as applicable law permits, institute an action, claim, suit, or proceeding upon any cause of action against which the period of limitation fixed by applicable law has not expired at the time of filing of the complaint upon which the order is entered.
    (c) The time between the filing of a complaint for conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation against the company and the denial of the complaint shall not be considered to be a part of the time within which any action may be commenced against the company. Any action against the company that might have been commenced when the complaint was filed may be commenced for at least 180 days after the complaint is denied.
(Source: P.A. 88-297; 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/195

    (215 ILCS 5/195) (from Ch. 73, par. 807)
    Sec. 195. Borrowing on the pledge of assets.
    For the purpose of facilitating the rehabilitation, liquidation, conservation or dissolution provided for by this article, the Director may, subject to the approval of the court, borrow money and execute, acknowledge and deliver certificates of indebtedness upon such terms and entitled to such liens and priorities as may be fixed by the court, or notes or other evidence of indebtedness therefor and secure the repayment of the same by the mortgage, pledge, assignment, transfer in trust or hypothecation or any or all of the property whether real, personal or mixed of the company against which a proceeding has been brought under this article. Subject to the approval of the court, he shall also have power to take any and all other action necessary and proper to consummate any such loans and to provide for the repayment thereof. The Director shall incur no personal liability by virtue of any loan made pursuant to this section.
(Source: Laws 1937, p. 696.)

215 ILCS 5/196

    (215 ILCS 5/196) (from Ch. 73, par. 808)
    Sec. 196. Order of dissolution. If the company against whom the complaint for liquidation is filed is a corporation and the complaint prays for dissolution of such company, the court shall have jurisdiction either before or after final liquidation of the property, business and affairs of such company, after service of summons and complaint as above stated and a full hearing, to enter a judgment dissolving such company, and if an order of liquidation has been entered against a company, the court shall have jurisdiction, upon the petition of the Director, to enter an order dissolving the company. The court may likewise, regardless of whether an order of liquidation is sought or has been obtained, upon proper complaint or petition by the Director, order dissolution of a company where it has failed to qualify for a certificate of authority authorizing it to commence the transaction of its business, or where a company has no assets and no means for payment of liabilities.
(Source: P.A. 89-206, eff. 7-21-95.)

215 ILCS 5/197

    (215 ILCS 5/197) (from Ch. 73, par. 809)
    Sec. 197. Rights, powers, and duties ancillary to domiciliary proceeding.
     The rights, powers, and duties of the Director as conservator, rehabilitator, or liquidator, with reference to the assets of a foreign or alien company, whether authorized or unauthorized, shall be ancillary to the rights, powers and duties imposed upon any receiver or other person, if any, in charge of the property, business and affairs of such company in its domiciliary state or country.
(Source: P.A. 86-1154; 86-1156.)

215 ILCS 5/198

    (215 ILCS 5/198) (from Ch. 73, par. 810)
    Sec. 198. Service of summons and return.
    (1) Upon the filing of a complaint, summons shall forthwith issue, returnable in 3 days after its date, and a copy of the summons together with the complaint in any proceeding under this article shall be served upon the company named in such complaint by delivering the same to its president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, director, or to its managing agent, or if the company lack any of the aforesaid officers, or they cannot be found within the State, to the officer performing corresponding functions under another name; if it be a Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, by delivering such summons and copy of the complaint to the duly designated attorney-in-fact.
    (2) When it is satisfactorily proved by the report of an examiner of the department made in accordance with the provisions of this Code, or by affidavit if anyone familiar with the facts, that the officers, directors, trustees or managing agents or members of any company named in said complaint upon whom service is required to be made as above provided, have, or if a Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange be named in the complaint, that the duly designated attorney-in-fact, has, departed from the State or keep themselves or himself concealed therein, or if such of the persons residing in this State and upon whom service is required to be made as above provided have resigned from their offices, or that service cannot be made immediately by the exercise of reasonable diligence, such service may be had by the mailing of a copy of the complaint and summons to the last known address of the company, or by publication in such form and in such manner as the court shall order.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1422.)

215 ILCS 5/199

    (215 ILCS 5/199) (from Ch. 73, par. 811)
    Sec. 199. Removal of proceedings to Sangamon or Cook county.
    In the event an order is entered directing liquidation, rehabilitation or conservation, the Director may remove the property and assets of the company to the county of Sangamon or to the county of Cook. In the event of such removal or contemplated removal the court shall upon proper petition showing the necessity therefor, filed by the Director, order the clerk of the court wherein such proceeding was commenced to make a full transcript of the petition for removal and the order thereon and to transmit the same together with all papers theretofore filed in the cause, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of Sangamon or to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of Cook, as the case may be, and the proceeding shall thereafter be conducted in the same manner as if it had been commenced in the county to which the cause is transferred.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3563.)

215 ILCS 5/200

    (215 ILCS 5/200) (from Ch. 73, par. 812)
    Sec. 200. Examinations. The pendency of any proceeding under this Article shall in no way affect the power and authority of the Director to conduct any examination provided for in Sections 132 through 132.7, in connection with the business, conduct or affairs of the company sought to be liquidated, rehabilitated or conserved.
    An annual audit of any business having assets of more than $500,000 which is under liquidation or rehabilitation pursuant to this Act shall be performed by an independent outside certified public accountant, who is currently engaged in the conduct of audits under the Illinois State Auditing Act. The cost of this audit shall be paid by the Director out of the assets of the business being liquidated or rehabilitated.
    An annual audit of any special deputy appointed under Section 202 shall be conducted by an independent, outside certified public accountant performing the audits provided for in the preceding paragraph. The cost of this audit shall be allocated among the estates of the companies in conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation on the basis of allocation methods established by the Director. The Illinois Auditor General may, at his option, participate in the audit of any special deputy.
    Copies of all audits prepared under this Section shall be promptly provided after completion to the Governor, to the Illinois Auditor General, and to the majority and minority leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(Source: P.A. 89-97, eff. 7-7-95.)

215 ILCS 5/201

    (215 ILCS 5/201) (from Ch. 73, par. 813)
    Sec. 201. Who may apply for appointment of receiver or liquidator.) No order or judgment enjoining, restraining or interfering with the prosecution of the business of any company, or for the appointment of a temporary or permanent receiver, rehabilitator or liquidator of a domestic company, or receiver or conservator of a foreign or alien company, shall be made or granted otherwise than upon the complaint of the Director represented by the Attorney General as provided in this article, except in an action by a judgment creditor or in proceedings supplementary thereto after notice that a final judgment has been entered and that the judgment creditor intends to file a complaint praying for any of the relief in this section mentioned, has been served upon the Director at least 30 days prior to the filing of such complaint by such judgment creditor.
(Source: P.A. 84-546.)