Connecticut General Statutes 38a-72 – Financial requirements to license an insurance company
(a) No property or casualty insurance company and no life insurance company shall be licensed initially to do business in this state unless the company complies with the following minimum capital and minimum surplus requirements to write these specified lines of insurance:
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Stock Insurance Companies |
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Capital    |
Surplus    |
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Health |
$ 500,000 |
$ 500,000 |
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Life |
1,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
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Liability |
500,000 |
500,000 |
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Fidelity and Surety |
500,000 |
500,000 |
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Financial Guaranty |
15,000,000 |
60,000,000 |
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Marine |
500,000 |
250,000 |
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Mortgage Guaranty |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
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Property |
500,000 |
250,000 |
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Workers’ Compensation |
500,000 |
500,000 |
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Title |
500,000 |
500,000 |
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Residual Value |
2,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
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Reinsurance |
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(Property and Casualty) |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
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Reinsurance (Life) |
1,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
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Mutual Insurance Companies |
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Surplus     |
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Health |
$ 1,000,000 |
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Life |
3,000,000 |
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Liability |
1,000,000 |
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Fidelity and Surety |
1,000,000 |
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Financial Guaranty |
75,000,000 |
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Marine |
750,000 |
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Mortgage Guaranty |
4,000,000 |
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Property |
750,000 |
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Workers’ Compensation |
1,000,000 |
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Title |
1,000,000 |
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Residual Value |
3,000,000 |
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Reinsurance |
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(Property and Casualty) |
4,000,000 |
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Reinsurance (Life) |
3,000,000 |
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-72
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- liabilities: shall include but not be limited to reserves required by statute or by regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 or specific requirements imposed by the commissioner upon a subject company at the time of admission or subsequent thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Life insurance: means insurance on human lives and insurances pertaining to or connected with human life. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
(b) Except with respect to the transaction of life and health insurance, companies desiring to transact more than one of the above forms of insurance shall meet the total minimum requirements, as to capital and surplus, of all forms to be transacted except that a company transacting all lines permitted to be combined need have no more than two million dollars capital and two million dollars surplus in the aggregate. Companies that transact both life and health insurance need have no more than one million dollars capital and two million dollars surplus in the aggregate. The commissioner may license any such company to write additional forms of insurance when the amount of capital and surplus of such company is sufficient by recognized insurance standards to protect the public interest. The commissioner may also license any mutual insurance company to write any or all forms of insurance when the surplus of such company is at least as great as the capital and surplus requirements for companies with capital stock.
(c) No alien property, marine or casualty insurance company shall be licensed to transact business in this state unless it furnishes a certificate showing that it has, for the protection of all policyholders, a cash deposit with the Treasurer of this state, or with the proper officer of some other state, of not less than the minimum capital and surplus requirements for similar foreign insurance companies or seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, whichever amount is less; nor unless it has a trusteed surplus, as defined in section 38a-58b, at least as great as the minimum capital and surplus requirements for similar foreign insurance companies.
(d) No insurance company shall be licensed to transact business in this state or remain so licensed unless (1) its surplus funds bear a reasonable relationship to its liabilities based upon the type, volume and nature of insurance business transacted, and (2) risk-based capital related to its total adjusted capital is adequate for the types of business transacted. As used in this section, “total adjusted capital” means the sum of capital and surplus of an insurer, its asset valuation reserves, and any other item in the nature of capital as deemed appropriate by the commissioner. “Risk-based capital” means the capital and surplus adjusted to recognize the level of risk inherent in its business, including (A) risk with respect to the insurer’s assets, (B) the risk of adverse insurance experience with respect to the insurer’s liabilities and obligations, (C) the interest rate risk with respect to the insurer’s business, and (D) all other business risks and such other relevant risks as the commissioner may determine. The commissioner shall adopt such reasonable regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as are deemed proper to implement the purposes of this section, including but not limited to, provisions concerning: The preparation and filing of reports by insurers of risk-based capital levels and the calculation thereof; the preparation and filing of comprehensive financial plans when such capital levels are reduced below minimum threshold levels; the confidentiality of such reports and plans; and the regulatory corrective actions the commissioner may take in the event minimum risk-based capital levels are not maintained, or the insurer’s financial plans filed with the commissioner are deficient, or the insurer fails to otherwise comply with the provisions of the regulations promulgated.
(e) An insurer licensed in this state and issuing or reinsuring in this state policies of financial guaranty insurance, as defined in subdivision (1) of section 38a-92a shall fully comply with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section.