2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 38a - Insurance
Chapter 698 - Insurers
Section 38a-92i - Net liability. Kinds of obligations.

(a) At least ninety-five per cent of a financial guaranty insurance corporation’s outstanding total net liability on the kinds of obligations enumerated in subdivisions (1) to (3), inclusive, of subsection (b) of section 38a-92g shall be investment grade.

(b) The financial guaranty insurance corporation shall at all times maintain capital, surplus and contingency reserve in the aggregate no less than the sum of the following:

(1) 0.3333 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of municipal bonds and utility first mortgage obligations;

(2) 0.6666 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of investment grade asset-backed securities;

(3) 1.0 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties secured by collateral or having a term of seven years or less of: (A) Investment grade industrial development bonds, and (B) other investment grade obligations;

(4) 1.5 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of other investment grade obligations;

(5) 2.0 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of: (A) Noninvestment grade consumer debt obligations, and (B) noninvestment grade asset-backed securities;

(6) 3.0 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of noninvestment grade obligations secured by first mortgages on commercial real estate and having loan-to-value ratios of eighty per cent or less;

(7) 5.0 per cent of the total net liability under guaranties of other noninvestment grade obligations;

(8) If the amount of collateral required by subdivision (3) of this subsection is no longer maintained, that proportion of the obligation insured which is not so collateralized shall be subject to the aggregate limits specified in subdivision (4) of this subsection; and

(9) Additional surplus determined by the commissioner to be adequate to support the writing of surety insurance if the financial guaranty insurance corporation has been licensed to transact surety insurance.

(P.A. 93-136, S. 10.)