2010 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 3 - Insurance
Chapter 62 - Kinds of Insurance -- Reinsurance
Subchapter 4 - Reinsurance Intermediary Act
§ 23-62-402 - Definitions.

23-62-402. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Actuary" means a person who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries;

(2) "Controlling person" means any person, firm, association, or corporation who directly or indirectly has the power to direct or cause to be directed the management, control, or activities of a reinsurance intermediary;

(3) "Insurer" means any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of the insurance law as an insurer;

(4) "Licensed producer" means an agent, broker, or reinsurance intermediary licensed pursuant to the applicable provision of the insurance law;

(5) "Reinsurance intermediary" means a reinsurance intermediary broker or a reinsurance intermediary manager as these terms are defined in subdivisions (6) and (7) of this section;

(6) "Reinsurance intermediary broker" means any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, firm, association, or corporation who solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of such insurer;

(7) (A) "Reinsurance intermediary manager" means any person, firm, association, or corporation who has authority to bind, or who manages, all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for such a reinsurer whether known as a reinsurance intermediary manager, a manager, or other similar term.

(B) Notwithstanding the above, the following persons shall not be considered reinsurance intermediary managers, with respect to such a reinsurer, for the purposes of this subchapter:

(i) An employee of the reinsurer;

(ii) A United States manager of the United States branch of an alien reinsurer;

(iii) An underwriting manager which, pursuant to contract, manages all the reinsurance operations of the reinsurer, is under common control with the reinsurer, subject to the Insurance Holding Company Regulatory Act, 23-63-501 et seq., and whose compensation is not based on the volume of premiums written; and

(iv) The manager of a group, association, pool, or organization of insurers which engages in joint underwriting or joint reinsurance and which is subject to examination by the insurance commissioner of the state in which the manager's principal business office is located;

(8) "Reinsurer" means any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of the insurance law as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance; and

(9) "To be in violation" means that the reinsurance intermediary, insurer, or reinsurer for whom the reinsurance intermediary was acting failed to substantially comply with the provisions of this subchapter.