The director, after a hearing, shall not grant or continue authority to engage in the insurance business in this state of any insurer when contrary to public interest or when the principal management personnel of such insurer is found by him to be untrustworthy or not of good character, or so lacking in insurance company managerial experience as to make the proposed operation hazardous to the insurancebuying public or to its stockholders; or which he has good reason to believe is affiliated directly or indirectly through ownership, control, management, reinsurance transactions, or other insurance or business relations, with any person or persons whose business operations, to the detriment of insurers, stockholders, or creditors, are or have been marked by manipulation of assets, accounts, or reinsurance, or by bad faith.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 58-6-8

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Insurance business: includes the transaction of all matters pertaining to a contract of insurance, both before and after the effectuation of that contract, and all matters arising out of that contract or any claim thereunder. See South Dakota Codified Laws 58-1-2
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • State: when used in context signifying a jurisdiction other than the State of South Dakota, a state, the District of Columbia, a territory, commonwealth, or possession of the United States of America, or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See South Dakota Codified Laws 58-1-2

Source: SL 1966, ch 111, ch 3, § 4 (2).