Kansas Statutes 40-105. Powers, duties, authority and jurisdiction conferred on commissioner of insurance
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-105
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
All laws relating to the powers, duties, authority and jurisdiction of the commissioner of insurance of this state not hereby repealed are hereby adopted and the present superintendent of insurance is declared to be the commissioner of insurance for the term for which he was elected as such superintendent. All pending actions brought by or against the superintendent of insurance may be continued without change in title and shall be binding upon the parties to the same extent as though substitution of his new style of office had been made. All insurance companies as defined in section 40-201 of this code and fraternal benefit societies which have been heretofore granted charters by the state charter board and which are now licensed by the superintendent of insurance shall be deemed legally organized and existing and shall be in no way affected by any provision of this act concerning the organization of such companies or fraternal benefit societies.