2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 698 - Insurers
Section 38a-102b - Definitions.

For the purposes of sections 38a-102 to 38a-102h, inclusive:

(1) “Cap” means an option contract wherein the seller, in return for a premium, agrees to limit the purchaser’s risk associated with an increase in a reference rate or index.

(2) “Collar” means a contract that combines a cap and a floor.

(3) “Exempted country” means a foreign jurisdiction rated in one of the two highest rating categories by an independent, nationally recognized United States rating agency.

(4) “Floor” means an option contract wherein the seller, in return for a premium, agrees to limit the purchaser’s risk associated with a decline in a reference rate or index.

(5) “Foreign obligations and investments” with respect to any single country means the obligations of the government of such country and political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities thereof together with obligations of and investments in entities created under the laws of that country, or a political subdivision thereof, and real estate and other tangible assets located in that country. Obligations issued, assumed or guaranteed by any institution created under the laws of the United States or any state thereof are not foreign obligations and investments.

(6) “Forward” means a contract, other than a future, between two parties that commits one party to purchase and the other to sell the instrument or commodity underlying the contract on a specified future date.

(7) “Future” means a standardized forward contract traded on a United States or qualified foreign exchange.

(8) “High yield obligations” means obligations that are not rated as investment grade by any nationally recognized United States rating agency or the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

(9) “Institution” means business trusts, corporations, joint stock associations, partnerships and other legal entities organized under the laws of the United States, or any state or territory of the United States, but does not include agencies, authorities, or instrumentalities of or entities sponsored by the United States, its possessions or territories.

(10) “Insurance company” has the same meaning as provided in section 38a-1 and includes fraternal benefit societies as defined in section 38a-595 and health care centers as defined in section 38a-175, but does not include agencies, authorities or instrumentalities of the United States, its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia or a state or political subdivision of a state.

(11) “Nonadmitted investment assets” means nonadmitted assets excluding real and personal property used in insurance business operations.

(12) “Obligations” includes bonds, debentures, notes and other evidences of indebtedness.

(13) “Option” means a contract that gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to enter into a transaction with the seller for option rights on terms specified in the contract.

(14) “Subsidiary” or “subsidiaries” has the same meaning as provided in section 38a-1 except that the term “controlled by”, as used in said section, has the same meaning as provided in section 38a-129. For the purposes of sections 38a-102 to 38a-102h, inclusive, a person may rebut the presumption of control used to define a subsidiary by providing written notice to the commissioner of such person’s intent to disavow control notwithstanding the direct or indirect ownership, control or holding with the power to vote, or holding of proxies representing ten per cent or more but less than a majority of the voting securities or voting power of any other person. Control shall be conclusively presumed to exist under sections 38a-102 to 38a-102h, inclusive, if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing over fifty per cent of the voting securities or voting power of any other person.

(15) “Swap” means a contract to exchange, for a period of time, the investment performance of one underlying instrument for the investment performance of another underlying instrument without exchanging the instruments themselves.

(P.A. 91-262, S. 3, 19; P.A. 95-168, S. 3; P.A. 09-48, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 95-168 amended Subsec. (h) by making technical clarifications re use of term “controlled by” in “subsidiary or subsidiaries” definition; P.A. 09-48 defined “cap” and “collar” in Subdivs. (1) and (2), “floor” in Subdiv. (4), “forward” and “future” in Subdivs. (6) and (7), “option” in Subdiv. (13) and “swap” in Subdiv. (15), redesignated existing Subdivs. (a) to (h) as Subdivs. (3), (5), (8) to (12) and (14), and made conforming and technical changes throughout, effective May 20, 2009.