2021 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 681A - Kinds of Insurance; Limits on Risk; Reinsurance
NRS 681A.180 - Reinsurance ceded to assuming insurer which maintains trust fund for payment of valid claims; exceptions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, credit must be allowed if reinsurance is ceded to an assuming insurer which maintains a trust fund in a qualified financial institution in the United States for the payment of the valid claims of its policyholders and ceding insurers in the United States, their assigns and successors in interest. The assuming insurer shall:

(a) Report annually to the Commissioner information substantially the same as that required to be reported on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ form of annual statement by licensed insurers to enable the Commissioner to determine the sufficiency of the trust fund; and

(b) Submit to the authority of the Commissioner to examine its books and records.

2. In the case of a single assuming insurer:

(a) The trust must consist of an account in trust equal to the assuming insurer’s liabilities attributable to business written in the United States and the assuming insurer shall maintain a surplus in trust of not less than $20,000,000.

(b) Three years after the assuming insurer has permanently discontinued underwriting new business secured by the trust, the commissioner of insurance of the state with principal regulatory authority over the trust may, at any time, authorize a reduction in the required trustee surplus, but only after finding, based on the assessment of the risk, that the new required surplus level is adequate for the protection of ceding insurers, policyholders and claimants in the United States in light of a reasonably adverse loss development. The risk assessment may involve an actuarial review, including an independent analysis of reserves and cash flows, and must consider all material risk factors, including, as applicable, the lines of business involved, the stability of the incurred loss estimates and the effect of the surplus requirements on the assuming insurer’s liquidity or solvency. The minimum required trustee surplus may not be reduced to an amount less than 30 percent of the assuming insurer’s liabilities attributable to reinsurance ceded by ceding insurers domiciled in the United States and covered by the trust.

3. In the case of a group of incorporated and individual unincorporated underwriters:

(a) The trust must consist of an account in trust equal to the group’s liabilities attributable to business written in the United States.

(b) The group shall:

(1) Maintain a surplus in trust of which $100,000,000 must be held jointly for the benefit of ceding insurers in the United States to any member of the group; and

(2) Make available to the Commissioner an annual certification of the solvency of each underwriter by the group’s domiciliary regulator and its independent public accountants.

(c) The incorporated members of the group:

(1) Shall not engage in any business other than underwriting as a member of the group; and

(2) Must be subject to the same level of regulation and solvency control by the applicable regulatory agency of the state in which the group is domiciled as the individual unincorporated members of the group.

4. Credit for reinsurance must not be granted unless the form of the trust and any amendments to the trust have been approved by the commissioner of insurance of the state in which the trust is domiciled or the commissioner of insurance of another state that, under the terms of the trust instrument, has accepted responsibility for regulatory authority over the trust. The form of the trust and any amendments to the trust must also be filed with each state in which the ceding insurer beneficiaries are domiciled or located. The trust instrument must provide that:

(a) Contested claims become valid and enforceable from money held in the trust to the extent such claims remain unsatisfied within 30 days after the entry of the final order of any court of competent jurisdiction in the United States;

(b) Legal title to the assets of the trust must be vested in the trustees for the benefit of the grantor’s ceding insurers in the United States, their assigns and successors in interest;

(c) The trust is subject to examination as determined by the Commissioner;

(d) The trust must remain in effect for as long as the assuming insurers or any member or former member of a group of insurers has outstanding obligations due under the agreements for reinsurance subject to the trust; and

(e) Not later than February 28 of each year, the trustees of the trust shall report to the Commissioner in writing setting forth the balance of the trust and listing the trust’s investments at the end of the preceding year and shall certify the date of termination of the trust or certify that the trust will not expire before the next following December 31.

5. If the assuming insurer does not meet the requirements of NRS 681A.110, 681A.160 or 681A.170, credit must not be allowed unless the assuming insurer has agreed to the following conditions set forth in the trust agreement:

(a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the trust instrument, if the trust fund consists of an amount that is less than the amount required pursuant to this section, or if the grantor of the trust fund is declared to be insolvent or placed into receivership, rehabilitation, liquidation or a similar proceeding in accordance with the laws of the grantor’s state or country of domicile, the trustee of the trust fund must comply with an order of the commissioner of insurance or other appropriate person with regulatory authority over the trust fund in that state or country or a court of competent jurisdiction requiring the trustee to transfer to that commissioner or person all the assets of the trust fund;

(b) The assets of the trust fund must be distributed by and claims filed with and valued by the commissioner of insurance or other appropriate person with regulatory authority over the trust fund in accordance with the laws of the state in which the trust fund is domiciled that are applicable to the liquidation of domestic insurers in that state;

(c) If the commissioner of insurance or other appropriate person with regulatory authority over the trust fund determines that the assets of the trust fund or any portion of the trust fund are not required to satisfy any claim of any ceding insurer of the grantor of the trust fund in the United States, the assets must be returned by that commissioner or person to the trustee of the trust fund for distribution in accordance with the trust agreement; and

(d) The grantor of the trust must waive any right that:

(1) Is otherwise available to the grantor under the laws of the United States; and

(2) Is inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection.

(Added to NRS by 1995, 1757; A 2003, 3284; 2013, 3352; 2015, 3387)