Section 10-3-804 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Registration of insurers(1)(a) Every insurer that is authorized to do business in this state and that is a member of an insurance holding company system shall register with the commissioner; except that registration is not required for a foreign insurer that is subject to registration requirements and standards adopted by statute or regulation in the jurisdiction of its domicile that are substantially similar to those contained in: (II) Section 10-3-805 (1)(a), (2), or (3); and(III) Either section 10-3-805 (1)(b) or a provision such as the following: "Each registered insurer must keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement by reporting all material changes or additions within fifteen days after the end of the month in which it learns of each change or addition."(b) An insurer that is subject to registration under this section shall register within fifteen days after it becomes subject to registration, and annually thereafter by April 30 of each year for the previous calendar year, unless the commissioner for good cause shown extends the time for registration, and then within the extended time. The commissioner may require any insurer authorized to do business in the state that is a member of an insurance holding company system and that is not subject to registration under this section to furnish a copy of the registration statement, the summary specified in subsection (3) of this section, or other information filed by the insurance company with the insurance regulatory authority of its domiciliary jurisdiction.(2) Every insurer subject to registration shall file the registration statement with the commissioner on a form and in a format prescribed by the NAIC, which must contain the following current information:(a) The capital structure, general financial condition, and ownership and management of the insurer and any person controlling the insurer;(b) The identity and relationship of every member of the insurance holding company system;(c) The following agreements in force, and transactions currently outstanding or that have occurred during the last calendar year between the insurer and its affiliates: (I) Loans, other investments, or purchases, sales, or exchanges of securities of the affiliates by the insurer or of the insurer by its affiliates;(II) Purchases, sales, or exchange of assets;(III) Transactions not in the ordinary course of business;(IV) Guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate that result in an actual contingent exposure of the insurer's assets to liability, other than insurance contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the insurer's business;(V) All management agreements, service contracts, and cost-sharing arrangements;(VI) Reinsurance agreements;(VII) Dividends and other distributions to shareholders;(VIII) Consolidated tax allocation agreements;(IX) Loans or extensions of credit to any person who is not an affiliate, where the insurer makes such loans or extensions of credit with the agreement or understanding that the proceeds of such transactions, in whole or in substantial part, are to be used to make loans or extensions of credit to, purchase assets of, or make investments in any affiliate of the insurer making such loans or extensions of credit; and(X) Any material transactions, specified by rule, that the commissioner determines may adversely affect the interest of such insurer's policyholders;(d) Information about each pledge of the insurer's stock, including stock of any subsidiary or controlling affiliate, for a loan made to any member of the insurance holding company system;(e) If requested by the commissioner, financial statements of or within an insurance holding company system, including all affiliates. Financial statements may include annual audited financial statements filed with the federal securities and exchange commission pursuant to the federal "Securities Act of 1933", 15 U.S.C. sec. 77a et seq., as amended, or the federal "Securities Exchange Act of 1934", 15 U.S.C. sec. 78a et seq., as amended. An insurer required to file financial statements pursuant to this paragraph (e) may satisfy the request by providing the commissioner with the most recently filed parent corporation financial statements that have been filed with the securities and exchange commission.(f) Other matters concerning transactions between registered insurers and any affiliates as may be included from time to time in any registration forms adopted or approved by the commissioner;(g) Statements that the insurer's board of directors oversees corporate governance and internal controls and that the insurer's officers or senior management have approved, implemented, and continue to maintain and monitor corporate governance and internal control procedures; and(h) Any other information required by the commissioner by rule.(3) All registration statements must contain a summary outlining all items in the current registration statement representing changes from the prior registration statement.(4) No information need be disclosed on the registration statement filed pursuant to subsection (2) of this section if the information is not material for the purposes of this section. Unless the commissioner by rule or order provides otherwise, sales, purchases, exchanges, loans, extensions of credit, investments, or guarantees involving one-half of one percent or less of an insurer's admitted assets as of the thirty-first day of the preceding December are not material for purposes of this subsection (4).(5) Subject to section 10-3-805 (2), each registered insurer shall report to the commissioner all dividends and other distributions to shareholders within fifteen business days following the declaration of the dividends or distribution.(6) A person within an insurance holding company system subject to registration shall provide complete and accurate information to an insurer where the information is reasonably necessary to enable the insurer to comply with this part 8.(7) The commissioner shall terminate the registration of any insurer that demonstrates that it no longer is a member of an insurance holding company system.(8) The commissioner may require or allow two or more affiliated insurers subject to registration to file a consolidated registration statement.(9) The commissioner may allow an insurer that is authorized to do business in this state and that is part of an insurance holding company system to register on behalf of any affiliated insurer that is required to register under subsection (1) of this section and to file all information and material required to be filed under this section.(10) This section does not apply to any insurer, information, or transaction if and to the extent that the commissioner by rule or order exempts it from this section.(11) A person, including an insurer or any member of an insurance holding company system, may file with the commissioner a disclaimer of affiliation with any authorized insurer. The disclaimer must fully disclose all material relationships and bases for affiliation between the person and the insurer as well as the basis for disclaiming the affiliation. A disclaimer of affiliation shall be deemed to have been granted unless the commissioner, within thirty days following receipt of a complete disclaimer, notifies the filing party the disclaimer is disallowed. In the event of disallowance, the disclaiming party may request an administrative hearing, which the commissioner shall grant. The disclaiming party need not register under this section if approval of the disclaimer has been granted by the commissioner or if the disclaimer is deemed to have been approved.(12) The ultimate controlling person of every insurer subject to registration shall also file an annual enterprise risk report. The report must, to the best of the ultimate controlling person's knowledge and belief, identify the material risks within the insurance holding company system that could pose enterprise risk to the insurer. The controlling person shall file the report with the lead state commissioner of the insurance holding company system as determined by the procedures within the financial analysis handbook adopted by the NAIC.(13) The failure to file a registration statement or any summary of the registration statement or enterprise risk filing required by this section within the time specified for filing is a violation of this section.Part 8 repealed and reenacted by 2014 Ch. 312, § 2, eff. 7/1/2014.This section is similar to former § 10-3-804 as it existed prior to 2014.
This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.