Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2038 – Uniform Insurers Liquidation Law
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2038
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
This Section, and La. Rev. Stat. 22:2039 through 2044, comprise and may be cited as the “Uniform Insurers Liquidation Law”. For the purposes of the law:
(1) “Insurer” means any person, firm, corporation, association, or aggregation of persons doing an insurance business and subject to the insurance supervisory authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, or conservation by, the commissioner of insurance, or the equivalent insurance supervisory official of another state.
(2) “Delinquency proceeding” means any proceeding commenced against an insurer for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing, or conserving such insurer.
(3) “State” means any state of the United States, and also the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
(4) “Foreign country” means territory not in any state.
(5) “Domiciliary state” means the state in which an insurer is incorporated or organized, or in the case of an insurer incorporated or organized in a foreign country, the state in which such insurer, having become authorized to do business in such state, has, at the commencement of delinquency proceedings, the largest amount of its assets held in trust and assets held on deposit for the benefit of its policyholders or policyholders and creditors in the United States; and any such insurer is deemed to be domiciled in such state.
(6) “Ancillary state” means any state other than a domiciliary state.
(7) “Reciprocal state” means any state other than this state in which in substance and effect the provisions of this law are in force, including the provisions requiring that the insurance commissioner or equivalent insurance supervisory official be the receiver of a delinquent insurer.
(8) “General assets” means all property, real, personal, or otherwise, not specifically or, as a result of separate accounts established under La. Rev. Stat. 22:781 and 914, deemed to be mortgaged, pledged, deposited, or otherwise encumbered for the security or benefit of specified persons or a limited class or classes of persons, and as to such specifically encumbered property the term includes all such property or its proceeds in excess of the amount necessary to discharge the sum or sums secured thereby. Assets held in trust and assets held on deposit for the security or benefit of all policyholders, or all policyholders and creditors in the United States, shall be deemed general assets.
(9) “Preferred claim” means any claim with respect to which the law of a state or of the United States accords priority of payment from the general assets of the insurer.
(10) “Special deposit claim” means any claim secured by a deposit made pursuant to statute for the security or benefit of a limited class or classes of persons, but not including any general assets.
(11) “Secured claim” means any claim secured or, as a result of separate accounts established under La. Rev. Stat. 22:781 and 914, deemed to be secured by mortgage, trust, deed, pledge, deposit as security, escrow, or otherwise, but not including special deposit claim or claims against general assets. The term also includes claims which more than four months prior to the commencement of delinquency proceedings in the state of the insurer’s domicile have become liens upon specific assets by reason of judicial process.
(12) “Receiver” means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator, or conservator as the context may require.
Acts 1958, No. 125; Acts 1993, No. 785, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 22:757 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2012, No. 271, §1.