CODE OF VIRGINIA

CLASSES OF INSURANCE COMPANIES MAY BE LICENSED TO WRITE (§ 38.2-135)

Except as otherwise provided in this title and subject to any conditions and
restrictions imposed therein, any insurer licensed to transact the business of
insurance in this Commonwealth, other than life insurers and title insurers, may
be licensed to write one or more of the classes of insurance enumerated in
Article 2 (§ 38.2-101 et seq.) of this chapter that it is authorized under its
charter to write, except life insurance, industrial life insurance, credit life
insurance, variable life insurance, modified guaranteed life insurance,
annuities, variable annuities, modified guaranteed annuities, and title
insurance. An insurer licensed to write life insurance shall not be licensed to
write any additional class of insurance except modified guaranteed life
insurance, variable life insurance, annuities, modified guaranteed annuities,
variable annuities, credit life insurance, credit accident and sickness
insurance, accident and sickness insurance, and industrial life insurance. An
insurer licensed to write title insurance shall not be licensed to write any
additional class of insurance. However, any life insurer that has been licensed
to write and has been actively engaged in writing life insurance and any
additional class of insurance set out in Article 2 (§ 38.2-101 et seq.) of this
chapter continuously during a period of twenty years immediately preceding July
1, 1952, may continue to be licensed to write those classes of insurance. No
company shall write any class of insurance unless it has a current annual
license from the Commission to do so.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 38-159, 38-504; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-25; 1978, c. 20;
1986, c. 562; 1994, c. 316; 1995, c. 789.