2013 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 58 - INSURANCE
Chapter 27 - Loans And Investments Of Insurers
§ 58-27-51.1 Additional investment authority--Life and health insurers.

58-27-51.1. Additional investment authority--Life and health insurers. In addition to the authority provided under § 58-27-51, an insurer authorized to write life or health insurance, or both, may invest a percentage of the amount by which the insurer's total adjusted capital equals or exceeds two hundred percent of its company action level risk-based capital in investments of any kind, in the discretion of the insurer, without regard to any condition of, restriction in, or exclusion prescribed in chapter 58-27, and regardless of whether the same or a similar type of investment has been included in, or omitted from, any such section, subject to an aggregate limitation equal to the greatest of:

(1) Fifty percent of the excess of total adjusted capital over the risk-based capital threshold if the insurer has total adjusted capital that equals or exceeds two hundred percent of its company action level risk-based capital;

(2) Seventy-five percent of the excess of total adjusted capital over the risk-based capital threshold if the insurer has total adjusted capital that equals or exceeds two hundred twenty-five percent of its company action level risk-based capital; or

(3) One hundred percent of the excess of total adjusted capital over the risk-based capital threshold if the insurer has total adjusted capital that equals or exceeds two hundred fifty percent of its company action level risk-based capital.

For the purpose of this section, risk-based capital threshold means two hundred percent of an insurer's company action level risk-based capital. The director shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to define company action level risk-based capital and total adjusted capital.

Source: SL 1997, ch 294, § 11.