Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-9-102 (2026)
Applicability
✓ current as of May 2026
The proceedings authorized by this chapter may be applied to:
- (1) All insurers who are doing, or have done, an insurance business in this state, and against whom claims arising from that business may exist now or in the future;
- (2) All insurers who purport to do an insurance business in this state;
- (3) All insurers who have insureds resident in this state;
- (4) All other persons organized or in the process of organizing with the intent to do an insurance business in this state;
- (5) All nonprofit service plans and all fraternal benefit societies and beneficial societies subject to § 56-25-606;
- (6) All title insurance companies subject to chapter 35 of this title;
- (7) All prepaid health care delivery plans; and
- (8) All fidelity, bonding or surety companies under chapter 15 of this title, and all annuity companies who do business in this state.
Acts 1991, ch. 142, § 4.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1988–2011 · leading case: Seals v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc., 688 F. Supp. 1252 (E.D. Tenn. 1988).
Seals v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc., 688 F. Supp. 1252 (E.D. Tenn. 1988). “” Finally, the test used by most of the similar state and model statutes mentioned above, and set out in the appendix, is inability to satisfy a judgment. It is not, however, necessary in this case to conclusively define “insolvency” for the purpose of the Tennessee Products…”
Bryant v. Shields, Britton & Fraser, 930 S.W.2d 836 (Tex. App. 1996). “See Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-9-102 (l)-(3) (1994).”
Leslie Newman, Comm'r of the Tennessee Dep't of Com. & Ins. v. Smart Data Solutions, LLC (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-9-101 (d)(1). The Act authorizes proceedings against the entities specified at Tenn.”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-9-102(g) — 1 case
Seals v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc., 688 F. Supp. 1252 (E.D. Tenn. 1988). “” Finally, the test used by most of the similar state and model statutes mentioned above, and set out in the appendix, is inability to satisfy a judgment. It is not, however, necessary in this case to conclusively define “insolvency” for the purpose of the Tennessee Products…”
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