SURETY BAIL BONDSMEN v. INSURANCE COM'R

No. 106,025.

243 P.3d 1177 (2010)

2010 OK 73

SURETY BAIL BONDSMEN OF OKLAHOMA, INC., an Oklahoma corporation, Cathy Boyd, an individual, Plaintiffs, International Fidelity Insurance Co., a New Jersey corporation, Allegheny Casualty Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, and American Surety Company, an Indiana corporation, Plaintiff Intervenors/Appellants, v. The INSURANCE COMMISSIONER of the State of Oklahoma, Defendant/Appellee, and Carisa Carrasco, Defendant Intervenor/Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected November 2, 2010.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark T. Hamby and Gene C. Howard , Bonham & Howard, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, OK, for the appellants.

Sandra White Lavenue , Oklahoma City, OK, for appellee Oklahoma Insurance Department.

David H. Cole , Majorie Galt , Ronald L. Wallace , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for appellee Carisa Carrasco.1


TAYLOR, V.C.J.

¶ 1 The dispositive questions presented in this appeal are whether title 59, section 1320(B) of the 2001 Oklahoma Statutes2 limits a professional bondsman to writing bonds on no more than ten defendants a year in a county in which the professional bondsman is not registered, and, if so, whether a professional bondsman can circumvent this limitation by employing a surety bondsman to act on the professional bondsman's...

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