Illinois Compiled Statutes
215 ILCS 5/531.06 (2026)
Creation of the Association
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(215 ILCS 5/531.06)
(from Ch. 73, par. 1065.80-6)
Sec. 531.06. Creation of the Association. There is created a
non-profit legal entity to be known as the Illinois Life and Health
Insurance Guaranty Association. All member insurers are and must remain
members of the Association as a condition of their authority to transact
insurance or a health maintenance organization business in this State. The Association must perform its functions under
the plan of operation established and approved under Section 531.10 and must
exercise its powers through a board of directors established under
Section 531.07. For purposes of administration and assessment, the Association
must maintain 2 accounts:
(1) The life insurance and annuity account, which | includes the following subaccounts: |
(a) Life Insurance Account;
(b) Annuity account, which shall include annuity | contracts owned by a governmental retirement plan (or its trustee) established under Section 401, 403(b), or 457 of the United States Internal Revenue Code, but shall otherwise exclude unallocated annuities; and |
(c) Unallocated annuity account, which shall | exclude contracts owned by a governmental retirement benefit plan (or its trustee) established under Section 401, 403(b), or 457 of the United States Internal Revenue Code. |
(2) The health account.
The Association shall be supervised by the Director
and is subject to the applicable provisions of the Illinois Insurance
Code. Meetings or records of the Association may be opened to the public upon majority vote of the board of directors of the Association.
(Source: P.A. 100-687, eff. 8-3-18.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1997–2000 · leading case: Lawrence v. Illinois Life & Health Ins. Guar., 688 N.E.2d 675 (Ill. App. Ct. 1997).
Lawrence v. Illinois Life & Health Ins. Guar., 688 N.E.2d 675 (Ill. App. Ct. 1997). “ILHGA, which is administered by a board of directors (215 ILCS 5/531.06 (West 1996)), provides coverage to Illinois policyholders of financially impaired life and health insurance companies (215 ILCS 5/531.”
Dynamic Sys., Inc. v. Boozell, 726 N.E.2d 1156 (Ill. App. Ct. 2000). “215 ILCS 5/531.06 (West 1992). One of the duties of the Association is to “[a]s-sure payment of the contractual obligations” of an insolvent insurer “to covered persons.”
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