2020 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 58 - Insurance
Chapter 14 - Reinsurance
Section 58-14-16.27 - Prompt payment practices.
58-14-16.27. Prompt payment practices.
An assuming insurer under § 58-14-16.23 shall maintain a practice of prompt payment of claims under a reinsurance agreement. The lack of prompt payment is evidenced if any of the following criteria are met:
(1)More than fifteen percent of the reinsurance recoverables from the assuming insurer are overdue and in dispute as reported to the director;
(2)More than fifteen percent of the assuming insurer's ceding insurers or reinsurers have overdue reinsurance recoverable on paid losses of ninety days or more that are not in dispute and that exceed one hundred thousand dollars for each ceding insurer or as otherwise specified in a covered agreement; or
(3)The aggregate amount of reinsurance recoverable on paid losses that are not in dispute but are overdue by ninety days or more exceeds fifty million dollars or as otherwise specified in a covered agreement.
Source: SL 2021, ch 211, § 5.
