2025 Delaware Code
Title 18 - Insurance Code
Chapter 69. CAPTIVE INSURANCE COMPANIES
Subchapter IV. Branch Captive Insurance Companies
§ 6972. Definitions.

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18 DE Code § 6972 (2025)
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§ 6972. Definitions.

As used in this subchapter, unless the context require otherwise:

(1) “Alien captive insurance company” means any insurance company formed to write insurance business of a nature that the Commissioner determines is otherwise permissible under this chapter and is licensed pursuant to the laws of an alien jurisdiction which imposes statutory or regulatory standards in a form acceptable to the Commissioner on companies transacting the business of insurance in such jurisdiction.

(2) “Branch business” means any insurance business transacted by a branch captive insurance company in this State.

(3) “Branch captive insurance company” means any alien captive insurance company that has been issued a certificate of authority by the Commissioner to transact the business of insurance in this State through a business unit with a principal place of business in this State, and has not otherwise been issued a certificate of authority by the Commissioner to transact insurance under this chapter.

(4) “Branch operations” means any business operations of a branch captive insurance company in this State.

77 Del. Laws, c. 252, § 13; 
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