Indiana Code 27-1-40-6. United States branch filing requirements
(1) Statements of the insurance business transacted in the United States, the assets held by or for the United States branch in the United States for the protection of policyholders and creditors in the United States, and the liabilities incurred against the assets. All of the following apply to the statements filed under this subdivision:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-40-6
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- certificate of authority: means an instrument in writing issued by the department to an insurer, which sets out the authority of such insurer to engage in the business of insurance or activities connected therewith. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- trusteed surplus: means the aggregate value of a United States branch's:
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- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- United States branch: means :
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- Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(B) The statements must be in the same form as statements required of a domestic company that possesses a certificate of authority to transact the same kinds of insurance business as the United States branch transacts.
(C) The statements must be filed as follows:
(i) Quarterly statements filed not later than May 15, August 15, and November 15 of each year for the first three (3) quarters of the calendar year.
(ii) An annual statement, filed not later than March 1 of each year.
(2) A trusteed surplus statement, in a form prescribed by the commissioner, at the end of the period covered by each statement described in subdivision (1)(C). In determining the net amount of the United States branch’s liabilities in the United States to be reported in the statement of trusteed surplus, the United States branch shall make adjustments to total liabilities reported on the accompanying annual or quarterly statement as follows:
(A) Add back liabilities used to offset admitted assets reported in the accompanying quarterly or annual statement.
(B) Deduct:
(i) unearned premiums on insurance producer balances or uncollected premiums that are not more than ninety (90) days past due;
(ii) losses reinsured by reinsurers authorized to do business in Indiana, less unpaid reinsurance premiums to be paid to the authorized reinsurers;
(iii) reinsurance recoverables on paid losses from reinsurers not authorized to do business in Indiana that are included as an asset in the annual statement, but only to the extent that a liability for the unauthorized recoverables is included in the liabilities report in the trusteed surplus statement;
(iv) special state deposits held for the exclusive benefit of policyholders of a particular state that do not exceed net liabilities reports for the particular state;
(v) secured accrued retrospective premiums;
(vi) if the alien company transacting business through the United States branch is a life insurer, the amount of the alien company’s policy loans to policyholders in the United States, not exceeding the amount of legal reserve required on each policy, and the net amount of uncollected and deferred premiums; and
(vii) any other nontrust asset that the commissioner determines secures liabilities in a manner substantially similar to the manner in which liabilities are secured by the unearned premiums, losses reinsured, reinsurance recoverables, special state deposits, secured accrued retrospective premiums, and policy loans referred to in items (i) through (vi).
(3) Any additional information that relates to the business or assets of the alien company and is required by the commissioner.
(b) The annual statement and trusteed surplus statement described in subsection (a) must be signed and verified by the United States manager, the attorney in fact, or an empowered assistant United States manager, of the United States branch. Items of securities and other property held under a trust agreement must be certified in the trusteed surplus statement by the United States trustees.
(c) Each report concerning an examination of a United States branch conducted under section 4(i) of this chapter must include a trusteed surplus statement as of the date of examination and a general statement of the financial condition of the United States branch.
As added by P.L.173-2007, SEC.20.