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304.24-415
Report disclosing material acquisitions and dispositions of assets,
nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements -Exceptions.
(1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(2)
(a)
(b)
Every insurer domiciled in this state shall file a report with the commissioner
disclosing material acquisitions and dispositions of assets or material
nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements
unless the acquisitions and dispositions of assets or material nonrenewals,
cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements have been
submitted to the commissioner for review, approval, or information purposes
pursuant to other provisions of this chapter.
The report required in paragraph (a) of this subsection is due within fifteen
(15) days after the end of the calendar month in which any of the foregoing
transactions occur.
One (1) complete copy of the report, including any exhibits or other
attachments, shall be filed with:
1.
The insurance department of the insurer's state of domicile; and
2.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
All reports obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner pursuant to this
section shall be given confidential treatment and shall not be subject to
subpoena and shall not be made public by the commissioner, the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners, or any other person, except to
insurance departments of other states, without the prior written consent of the
insurer to which it pertains unless the commissioner, after giving the insurer
who would be affected notice and opportunity to be heard, determines that the
interest of policyholders, shareholders, or the public will be served by
publication, in which event the commissioner may publish all or any part in
the manner the commissioner may deem appropriate.
No acquisitions or dispositions of assets need be reported pursuant to
subsection (1) of this section if the acquisitions or dispositions are not
material. For purposes of this section, a material acquisition, or the aggregate
of any series of related acquisitions during any thirty (30) day period, is one
that is nonrecurring and not in the ordinary course of business and involves
more than five percent (5%) of the reporting insurer's total admitted assets as
reported in its most recent statutory statement filed with the insurance
department of the insurer's state of domicile.
1.
Asset acquisitions subject to this section include every purchase, lease
exchange, merger, consolidation, succession, or other acquisition other
than the construction or development of real property by or for the
reporting insurer or the acquisition of materials for such purpose.
2.
Asset dispositions subject to this section include every sale, lease,
exchange, merger, consolidation, mortgage, hypothecation, assignment
(whether for the benefit of creditors or otherwise), abandonment,
destruction, or other disposition.
(c)
(3)
(a)
1.
The following information is required to be disclosed in any report of a
material acquisition or disposition of assets:
a.
Date of the transaction;
b.
Manner of acquisition or disposition;
c.
Description of the assets involved;
d.
Nature and amount of the consideration given or received;
e.
Purpose of, or reason for, the transaction;
f.
Manner by which the amount of consideration was determined;
g.
Gain or loss recognized or realized as a result of the transaction;
and
h.
Names of the persons from which the assets were acquired or to
whom they were disposed.
2.
Insurers are required to report material acquisitions and dispositions on a
nonconsolidated basis unless the insurer is part of a consolidated group
of insurers which utilizes a pooling arrangement or one hundred percent
(100%) reinsurance agreement that affects the solvency and integrity of
the insurer's reserves and the insurer ceded substantially all of its direct
and assumed business to the pool. An insurer is deemed to have ceded
substantially all of its direct and assumed business to a pool if the
insurer has less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) total direct plus
assumed written premiums during a calendar year that are not subject to
a pooling arrangement and the net income of the business not subject to
the pooling arrangement represents less than five percent (5%) of the
insurer's capital and surplus.
No nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements
need be reported pursuant to subsection (1) of this section if the nonrenewals,
cancellations or revisions are not material. For purposes of this section, a
material nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision is one that affects:
1.
As respects property and casualty business, including accident and
health business written by a property and casualty insurer:
a.
More than fifty percent (50%) of the insurer's total ceded written
premium; or
b.
More than fifty percent (50%) of the insurer's total ceded
indemnity and loss adjustment reserves.
2.
As respects life, annuity, and accident and health business, more than
fifty percent (50%) of the total reserve credit taken for business ceded,
on an annualized basis, as indicated in the insurer's most recent annual
statement.
3.
As respects either property and casualty or life, annuity, and accident
and health business, either of the following events shall constitute a
material revision which must be reported:
a.
An authorized reinsurer representing more than ten percent (10%)
(b)
(c)
(d)
of a total cession is replaced by one (1) or more unauthorized
reinsurers; or
b.
Previously established collateral requirements have been reduced
or waived as respects one (1) or more unauthorized reinsurers
representing collectively more than ten percent (10%) of a total
cession.
No filing shall be required if:
1.
As respects property and casualty business, including accident and
health business written by a property and casualty insurer, the insurer's
total ceded written premium represents, on an annualized basis, less than
ten percent (10%) of its total written premium for direct and assumed
business; or
2.
As respects life, annuity, and accident and health business, the total
reserve credit taken for business ceded represents, on an annualized
basis, less than ten percent (10%) of the statutory reserve requirements
prior to any cession.
The following information is required to be disclosed in any report of a
material nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision of ceded reinsurance
agreements:
1.
Effective date of the nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision;
2.
The description of the transaction with an identification of the initiator
thereof;
3.
Purpose of, or reason for, the transaction; and
4.
If applicable, the identity of the replacement reinsurers.
Insurers are required to report all material nonrenewals, cancellations, or
revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements on a nonconsolidated basis unless
the insurer is part of a consolidated group of insurers which utilizes a pooling
arrangement or one hundred percent (100%) reinsurance agreement that
affects the solvency and integrity of the insurer's reserves and the insurer
ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to a pool if the
insurer has less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) total direct plus
assumed written premiums during a calendar year that are not subject to a
pooling arrangement and the net income of the business not subject to the
pooling arrangement represents less than five percent (5%) of the insurer's
capital and surplus.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1345, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 289, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1996.
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