2011 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 2. BUSINESS
TITLE 24. INSURANCE
431. Insurance Code
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ARTICLE 19

CAPTIVE INSURANCE COMPANIES

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Note

Part I designation added by L 2008, c 190, §2.

§431:19-101 Definitions. As used in this article:

"Affiliated entity" means any company, person, or other entity in the same corporate system as a parent or a member organization by virtue of common ownership, control, operation, or management, or, in the case of a pure captive insurance company, whose risks insured by the pure captive insurance company are directly or indirectly controlled by the parent or an affiliate of the parent of a pure captive insurance company.

"Association" means any legal association of individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, associations, or other entities, except labor organizations, the member organizations of which or which does itself, whether or not in conjunction with some or all of the member organizations:

(1) Own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer;

(2) Have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurer; or

(3) Constitute all of the subscribers of an association captive insurance company formed as a reciprocal insurer.

"Branch captive insurance company" means an outside captive insurance company licensed under this article by the commissioner to transact the business of insurance in this State through a business unit that has its principal place of business in this State.

"Captive insurance company" means a class 1, class 2, class 3, class 4, or class 5 captive insurance company formed or authorized under this article.

"Member organization" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other entity that belongs to an association.

"Outside captive insurance company" means an insurance company licensed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this State and not otherwise admitted to do business as an insurance company in this State, that insures the risks of its parent or any affiliated companies.

"Parent" means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, other entity, or individual, that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than fifty per cent of the outstanding voting interests of a pure captive insurance company organized as a stock corporation, nonprofit corporation, or limited liability company.

"Participant" means an entity that meets the requirements of section 431:19-305, and any affiliates thereof that are insured by a sponsored captive insurance company where the losses of the participant may be limited through a participant contract to the participant's pro rata share of the assets of one or more protected cells identified in the participant contract.

"Participant contract" means a contract by which a sponsored captive insurance company insures the risks of a participant and may also limit the losses of each participant to its pro rata share of the assets of one or more protected cells identified in such participant contract.

"Protected cell" means a separate account established by a sponsored captive insurance company formed or licensed under this part in which assets are maintained for one or more participants in accordance with the terms of one or more participant contracts to fund the liability of the sponsored captive insurance company assumed on behalf of the participants as set forth in the participant contracts.

"Pure captive insurance company" means any company that only insures or reinsures risks of its parent and affiliated entities.

"Pure nonprofit captive insurance company" means a pure captive insurance company formed without capital stock as a nonprofit corporation under chapter 414D, whose voting of membership interest is held by a parent organization formed under a nonprofit law or by such nonprofit parent and its affiliated entities.

"Risk retention captive insurance company" means a captive insurance company which is formed as a "risk retention group" as defined in chapter 431K.

"Sponsor" means any entity that meets the requirements of section 431:19-304 and is approved by the commissioner to provide all or part of the minimum required capital and surplus of a sponsored captive insurance company and to organize and operate a sponsored captive insurance company.

"Sponsored captive insurance company" means any captive insurance company in which the minimum required capital and surplus is provided by one or more sponsors and is formed or licensed under this article. A sponsored captive insurance company insures the risks only of its participants through separate participant contracts and may fund its liability to each participant through one or more protected cells. A sponsored captive insurance company segregates the assets of each protected cell from the assets of other protected cells and from the assets of the sponsored captive insurance company's general account. [L 1987, c 347, pt of §2; am L 1988, c 187, §8; am L 1989, c 207, §15; am L 1992, c 108, §2; am L 1996, c 248, §1; am L 1998, c 150, §2; am L 1999, c 302, §2; am L 2000, c 36, §2 and c 133, §1; am L 2001, c 194, §3; am L 2002, c 40, §71; am L 2003, c 209, §1; am L 2005, c 31, §1; am L 2007, c 232, §1; am L 2008, c 190, §3]