2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 698 - Insurers
Section 38a-58g - Domestication of alien insurer’s United States branch.

(a) An alien insurer whose United States branch is licensed under section 38a-58d may, with the prior written approval of the commissioner, domesticate its United States branch in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(b) (1) Such alien insurer shall enter into a domestication agreement in writing with a domestic insurer that provides for the domestic insurer to succeed to all the business and assets and to assume all the liabilities of the United States branch. The agreement shall be effectuated, upon approval by the commissioner, by the filing of an instrument of transfer and assumption as set forth in subdivision (4) of this subsection.

(2) The alien insurer shall approve any such domestication agreement in accordance with the laws of the country under which the alien insurer is organized. The president or a vice president of the domestic insurer shall execute, the board of directors of the domestic insurer shall approve and the secretary of the domestic insurer shall certify under corporate seal, any such domestication agreement.

(3) The alien insurer and the domestic insurer shall submit to the commissioner for approval their respective copies of the executed domestication agreement and certified copies of their corporate proceedings approving such agreement. The commissioner shall approve such agreement if the commissioner finds that such agreement complies with the provisions of this section and that the interests of the policyholders of the United States branch and the domestic insurer will not be materially adversely affected. The commissioner shall approve or disapprove such agreement not later than sixty days after the later of the two insurers’ submissions.

(4) (A) The alien insurer or the domestic insurer shall file with the commissioner a certified copy of the instrument of transfer and assumption pursuant to which the domestic insurer succeeds to all the business and assets and assumes all the liabilities of the United States branch. Such instrument shall be in a form satisfactory to the commissioner and executed by an authorized representative of the alien insurer and the domestic insurer. Upon such filing, the transfer shall be deemed effective and all rights, franchises and interests of the United States branch in and to every species of property and all liabilities of and actions relating to such United States branch shall be transferred to and vested in the domestic insurer.

(B) The commissioner shall, contemporaneously with the effectuation of the domestication agreement, direct the trustee or trustees of the United States branch’s trust account to pay or transfer to the domestic insurer all trusteed assets, if any, held by such trust.

(C) For purposes of complying with any laws related to the age of companies, the domestic insurer shall be deemed to be the age of the older of the two insurers that are party to the domestication agreement.

(5) All deposits of the United States branch held by the commissioner, state officers or state regulatory agencies shall be deemed to be held as security for the satisfaction of liabilities to policyholders in the United States assumed by the domestic insurer from the United States branch. Such deposits shall be deemed assets of the domestic insurer and shall be reported as such in annual financial statements and other reports the domestic insurer is required to file. Upon the ultimate release of any such deposits by the commissioner, state officer or state regulatory agency, the cash or securities or both constituting such released deposit shall be paid or delivered to the domestic insurer as the lawful successor in interest to the United States branch.

(P.A. 14-123, S. 21; P.A. 15-118, S. 32.)

History: P.A. 14-123 effective June 6, 2014; P.A. 15-118 made a technical change in Subsec. (b)(1).