2017 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 500 - Insurance Code of 1956
Act 218 of 1956 THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (500.100 - 500.8302)
218-1956-48 CHAPTER 48 PROTECTED CELL INSURANCE COMPANIES (500.4801...500.4813)
Section 500.4801 Definitions.
Sec. 4801.
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Domestic insurer" means an insurer domiciled in this state.
(b) "Fair value" means the following:
(i) For cash, the amount of the cash.
(ii) For assets other than cash, the amount at which that asset could be bought or sold in the current transaction between arm's length, willing parties. If available, the quoted mid-market price for the asset in active markets shall be used; and if quoted mid-market prices are not available, a value shall be determined using the best information available considering values of similar assets and other valuation methods, such as present value of future cash flows, historical value of the same and similar assets, or comparison to values of other asset classes, the value of which have been historically related to the subject asset.
(c) "Fully funded" means that, with respect to any exposure attributed to a protected cell, the fair value of the protected cell assets, on the date on which the insurance securitization is effected, equals or exceeds the maximum possible exposure attributable to the protected cell with respect to such exposures.
(d) "General account" means the assets and liabilities of a protected cell company other than protected cell assets and protected cell liabilities.
(e) "Indemnity trigger" means a transaction term by which relief of the issuer's obligation to repay investors is triggered by its incurring a specified level of losses under its insurance or reinsurance contracts.
(f) "Nonindemnity trigger" means a transaction term by which relief of the issuer's obligation to repay investors is triggered solely by some event or condition other than the individual protected cell company incurring a specified level of losses under its insurance or reinsurance contracts.
(g) "Protected cell" means an identified pool of assets and liabilities of a protected cell company segregated and insulated by means of this chapter from the remainder of the protected cell company's assets and liabilities.
(h) "Protected cell account" means a specifically identified bank or custodial account established by a protected cell company for the purpose of segregating the protected cell assets of 1 protected cell from the protected cell assets of other protected cells and from the assets of the protected cell company's general account.
(i) "Protected cell assets" means all assets, contract rights, and general intangibles, identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company.
(j) "Protected cell company" means a domestic insurer or captive insurer that has 1 or more protected cells.
(k) "Protected cell company insurance securitization" means the issuance of debt instruments, the proceeds from which support the exposures attributed to the protected cell, by a protected cell company where repayment of principal or interest, or both, to investors pursuant to the transaction terms is contingent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event with respect to which the protected cell company is exposed to loss under insurance or reinsurance contracts it has issued.
(l) "Protected cell liabilities" means all liabilities and other obligations identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company.
History: Add. 2008, Act 29, Imd. Eff. Mar. 13, 2008
Popular Name: Act 218
