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Welcome to the Tennessee Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association
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Welcome to the Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association ("guaranty association") Web site. We hope you find this site helpful in providing information regarding the purpose of the guaranty association and how it protects resident policyholders in the event of an insurance company insolvency.
The Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association is a statutory entity created in July of 1989 when the Tennessee legislature enacted the Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act (Tenn. Code Ann. Section 56-12-201 et seq) (Part 2); a link to the Act can be found in the Additional Info section. The guaranty association is composed of all insurers licensed to sell life insurance, accident and health insurance, and individual annuities in the state of Tennessee. In the event that a member insurer is found to be insolvent and is ordered to be liquidated by a court, the Act enables the guaranty association to provide protection (up to the limits spelled out in the Act) to Tennessee residents who are holders of life and health insurance policies and individual annuities with the insolvent insurer.
Specifically, when a member insurer is found to be insolvent and is ordered liquidated, a special deputy receiver takes over the insurer under court supervision and processes the assets and liabilities... [ more ] |
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