(a) Captive insurance companies shall not be required to make any annual report except as provided in this chapter.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-31B-9

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: includes affirmation. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Prior to March 1 of each year, each captive insurance company shall submit to the commissioner a report of its financial condition, verified by oath of two of its executive officers. Except as provided in Section 27-31B-6, each captive insurance company shall report using statutory accounting principles, unless the commissioner approves the use of generally accepted accounting principles, with any useful or necessary modifications or adaptations thereof required or approved or accepted by the commissioner for the type of insurance and kinds of insurers to be reported upon, and as supplemented by additional information required by the commissioner. Except as otherwise provided, each association captive insurance company and each industrial insured captive insurance company insuring the risks of an industrial insured group defined in paragraph b. of subdivision (18) of Section 27-31B-2 shall file its report in the form required by Section 27-3-26. Each risk retention group shall file its report in the form required by Section 27-3-26 and shall comply with all filing requirements set forth in this title as well as rules and bulletins of the Alabama Department of Insurance applicable to casualty insurers domiciled in the state. The commissioner shall by rule propose the forms in which pure captive insurance companies and industrial insured captive insurance companies insuring the risks of an industrial insured group defined in paragraph a. of subdivision (18) of Section 27-31B-2 shall report. Subdivision (4) of subsection (c) of Section 27-31B-3 shall apply to each report filed pursuant to this section, except the subdivision shall not apply to reports filed by industrial insured captive insurance companies insuring the risks of industrial insured groups as defined in paragraph b. of subdivision (18) of Section 27-31B-2.
(c) Any pure captive insurance company or an industrial insured captive insurance company insuring the risks of industrial insured groups as defined in paragraph a. of subdivision (18) of Section 27-31B-2 may make written application for filing the required report on a fiscal year-end. If an alternative reporting date is granted, the annual report shall be due 60 days after the end of the fiscal year and, in order to provide sufficient detail to support the premium tax return, the pure captive insurance company or industrial insured captive insurance company insuring the risks of industrial insureds as defined in paragraph b. of subdivision (18) of Section 27-31B-2 shall file prior to March 1 of each year for each calendar year-end, pages 1, 2, 3, and 5 of the “Captive Annual Statement; Pure or Industrial Insured,” verified by oath of two of its executive officers.
(d) Sixty days after the fiscal year-end, a branch captive insurance company shall file with the commissioner a copy of all reports and statements required to be filed under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the alien captive insurance company is formed, verified by oath of two of its executive officers. If the commissioner is satisfied that the annual report filed by the alien captive insurance company in its domiciliary jurisdiction provides adequate information concerning the financial condition of the alien captive insurance company, the commissioner may waive the requirement for completion of the captive annual statement for business written in the alien jurisdiction.
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