2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 698 - Insurers
Section 38a-53 - (Formerly Sec. 38-24). Requirements re filing of annual reports and financial statements. Late filing fee. Due date extensions.

(a)(1) Each domestic insurance company or health care center shall, annually, on or before the first day of March, submit to the commissioner, and electronically to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a true and complete report, signed and sworn to by its president or a vice president, and secretary or an assistant secretary, of its financial condition on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, prepared in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners annual statement instructions handbook and following those accounting procedures and practices prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners accounting practices and procedures manual, subject to any deviations in form and detail as may be prescribed by the commissioner. An electronically filed report in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners shall not exempt a domestic insurance company or health care center from timely filing a true and complete paper copy with the commissioner.

(2) Each accredited reinsurer, as defined in subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of section 38a-85, and assuming insurance company, as provided in section 38a-85, shall file an annual report in accordance with the provisions of section 38a-85.

(b) Each foreign insurance company doing business in this state shall, annually, on or before the first day of March, submit to the commissioner, by electronically filing with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a true and complete report, signed and sworn to by its president or a vice president, and secretary or an assistant secretary, of its financial condition on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, prepared in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners annual statement instructions handbook and following those accounting procedures and practices prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners accounting practices and procedures manual, subject to any deviations in form and detail as may be prescribed by the commissioner. An electronically filed report in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely submitted to the National Association of Commissioners shall be deemed to have been submitted to the commissioner in accordance with this section.

(c) In addition to such annual report, the commissioner, when the commissioner deems it necessary, may require any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state to file financial statements on a quarterly basis. An electronically filed true and complete report filed in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely filed with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners shall be deemed to have been submitted to the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(d) In addition to such annual report and the quarterly report required under subsection (c) of this section, the commissioner, whenever the commissioner determines that more frequent reports are required because of certain factors or trends affecting companies writing a particular class or classes of business or because of changes in the company’s management or financial or operating condition, may require any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state to file financial statements on other than an annual or quarterly basis.

(e) Any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state that fails to file any report or statement required under this section shall pay a late filing fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars per day for each day from the due date of such report or statement to the date of filing. The commissioner may extend the due date of any report or statement required under this section (1) if the insurance company or health care center cannot file such report or statement because the governor of such company’s or center’s state of domicile has proclaimed a state of emergency in such state and such state of emergency impairs the company’s or center’s ability to file the report or statement, (2) if the insurance regulatory official of the state of domicile of a foreign insurance company has permitted such company to file such report or statement late, or (3) for a domestic insurance company or health care center, for good cause shown.

(f) Each insurance company or health care center doing business in this state shall include in all reports required to be filed with the commissioner under this section a certification by an actuary or reserve specialist of all reserve liabilities prepared in accordance with regulations that shall be adopted by the commissioner in accordance with chapter 54. The regulations shall: (1) Specify the contents and scope of the certification; (2) provide for the availability to the commissioner of the workpapers of the actuary or loss reserve specialist; and (3) provide for granting companies or centers exemptions from compliance with the requirements of this subsection. The commissioner shall maintain, as confidential, all workpapers of the actuary or loss reserve specialist and the actuarial report and actuarial opinion summary provided in support of the certification. Such workpapers, reports and summaries shall not be subject to subpoena or disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.

(1949 Rev., S. 6077; P.A. 76-167, S. 1; P.A. 88-326, S. 2; P.A. 90-243, S. 9; P.A. 92-112, S. 3; P.A. 05-29, S. 3; P.A. 06-117, S. 1; P.A. 07-54, S. 1; 07-225, S. 1; P.A. 08-147, S. 3; 08-178, S. 4; P.A. 09-74, S. 10; P.A. 13-134, S. 4; P.A. 15-144, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 76-167 added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re quarterly financial reports and other reports; P.A. 88-326 added a new Subsec. (d) imposing a late filing fee of $100 per day; P.A. 90-243 added references to health care centers re filing of financial statements with the commissioner and added Subsec. (e) re certification of the disclosure of reserve liabilities; Sec. 38-24 transferred to Sec. 38a-53 in 1991; P.A. 92-112 amended Subsec. (a) to require that reports be filed in accordance with standards set by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; P.A. 05-29 made technical changes in Subsec. (c); P.A. 06-117 amended Subsec. (e) to require commissioner to maintain, as confidential, all workpapers of actuary or loss reserve specialist and actuarial report and opinion summary provided in support of certification and to provide that such documents shall not be subject to subpoena or disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act; P.A. 07-54 made technical changes in Subsec. (e)(3), effective May 22, 2007; P.A. 07-225 amended Subsec. (a) to limit its application to domestic insurance companies, to require such companies to “submit”, in lieu of “render”, a true and complete report of financial condition electronically to National Association of Insurance Commissioners and to require such companies to timely file a true and complete paper copy of such report with commissioner, inserted new Subsec. (b) requiring foreign insurance companies to submit report of financial condition in same manner as specified in Subsec. (a), except for submission of paper copies to commissioner, redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) to (e) as Subsecs. (c) to (f), and amended redesignated Subsec. (c) to require that electronically filed true and complete report filed in accordance with Sec. 38a-53a that is timely filed with National Association of Insurance Commissioners be deemed to have been submitted to commissioner in accordance with the provisions of section; P.A. 08-147 amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re filing requirements for accredited reinsurers and assuming insurance companies; P.A. 08-178 increased per day late filing fee from $100 to $175 in Subsec. (e); P.A. 09-74 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(2), effective May 27, 2009; P.A. 13-134 made technical changes; P.A. 15-144 amended Subsec. (e) by adding provision re extension of due date by commissioner, effective July 1, 2015.