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Pennsylvania Insurance Insurer Receivership Statute - Title 40., Ch.
1, Article V.
C. Formal Proceedings (cont’d)
(b) An order of the Commonwealth Court to rehabilitate the business of an insurer shall be issued only after a
hearing before the court or pursuant to a written consent of the insurer.
(c) An order to rehabilitate the business of a domestic insurer, or an alien insurer domiciled in this
Commonwealth, shall appoint the commissioner and his successors in office the rehabilitator, and shall direct the rehabilitator
forthwith to take possession of the assets of the insurer including any deposits held by the commissioner, and to administer
them under the orders of the court. The filing or recording of the order with the clerk of the Commonwealth Court or recorder of
deeds of the county in which the principal business of the company is conducted, or the county in which its principal office or
place of business is located, shall impart the same notice as a deed, bill of sale or other evidence of title duly filed or recorded
with that recorder of deeds would have imparted.
(d) Entry of an order of rehabilitation shall not constitute an anticipatory breach of any contracts of the insurer.
221.16. Powers and duties of the rehabilitator
(a) The commissioner as rehabilitator may appoint a special deputy who shall have all the powers of the
rehabilitator granted under this section. The commissioner shall make such arrangements for compensation as are necessary to
obtain a special deputy of proven ability. The special deputy shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner.
(b) The rehabilitator may take such action as he deems necessary or expedient to correct the condition or
conditions which constituted the grounds for the order of the court to rehabilitate the insurer. He shall have all the powers of the
directors, officers and managers, whose authority shall be suspended, except as they are redelegated by the rehabilitator. He
shall have full power to direct and manage, to hire and discharge employees subject to any contract rights they may have, and
to deal with the property and business of the insurer.
(c) If it appears to the rehabilitator that there has been criminal or tortious conduct, or breach of any contractual
or fiduciary obligation detrimental to the insurer by any officer, manager, agent, broker, employee, or other person, he may
pursue all appropriate legal remedies on behalf of the insurer.
(d) The rehabilitator may prepare a plan for the reorganization, consolidation, conversion, reinsurance, merger
or other transformation of the insurer.