2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 83 - INSURANCE
Chapter 5 - General Provisions Relative to Insurance and Insurance Companies.
83-5-205 - Examination of insurers; scheduling of examinations; examination of foreign or alien insurer; acceptance of examination report prepared by insurance department of another state.

§ 83-5-205. Examination of insurers; scheduling of examinations; examination of foreign or alien insurer; acceptance of examination report prepared by insurance department of another state.
 

(1)  The commissioner or any of his examiners may conduct an examination under Sections 83-5-201 through 83-5-217 of any company as often as the commissioner, in his or her sole discretion, deems appropriate but, at a minimum, shall conduct an examination of every insurer licensed in this state not less frequently than once every three (3) years. In scheduling and determining the nature, scope and frequency of the examinations, the commissioner shall consider such matters as the results of financial statement analyses and ratios, changes in management or ownership, actuarial opinions, reports of independent certified public accountants and other criteria as set forth in the Examiners' Handbook adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and in effect when the commissioner exercises discretion under this section. 

(2)  For purposes of completing an examination of any company under Sections 83-5-201 through 83-5-217, the commissioner may examine or investigate any person, or the business of any person, insofar as such examination or investigation, in the sole discretion of the commissioner, is necessary or material to the examination of the company. 

(3)  In lieu of an examination under Sections 83-5-201 through 83-5-217 of any foreign or alien insurer licensed in this state, the commissioner may accept an examination report on the company as prepared by the insurance department for the company's state of domicile or port-of-entry state until January 1, 1994. Thereafter, such reports may only be accepted if (a) the insurance department was at the time of the examination accredited under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Program; or (b) the examination is performed under the supervision of an accredited insurance department or with the participation of one or more examiners who are employed by such an accredited state insurance department and who, after a review of the examination work papers and report, state under oath that the examination was performed in a manner consistent with the standards and procedures required by their insurance department. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1992, ch. 319, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1992.