Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1728 – Prohibited acts
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1728
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Individual: shall mean a natural person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
- Reinsurance intermediary-manager: shall mean any person who has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for such reinsurer, whether known as a reinsurance intermediary-manager, manager, or other similar term. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
- Reinsurer: shall mean any person duly licensed in this state, pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Code, as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
The reinsurance intermediary-manager shall not:
(1) Cede retrocessions on behalf of the reinsurer, except that the reinsurance intermediary-manager may cede facultative retrocessions pursuant to obligatory facultative agreements, if the contract with the reinsurer contains reinsurance underwriting guidelines for such retrocessions. The guidelines shall include a list of reinsurers with which such automatic agreements are in effect, and for each such reinsurer, the coverages and amounts or percentages that may be reinsured, and commission schedules.
(2) Commit the reinsurer to participate in reinsurance syndicates.
(3) Appoint any producer without assuring that the producer is lawfully licensed to transact the type of reinsurance for which he is appointed.
(4) Without prior approval of the reinsurer, pay or commit the reinsurer to pay a claim, minus its retrocessions, that exceeds the lesser of an amount specified by the reinsurer or one percent of the reinsurer’s policyholder’s surplus as of December thirty-first of the last complete calendar year.
(5) Collect any payment from a retrocessionaire or commit the reinsurer to any claim settlement with a retrocessionaire, without prior approval of the reinsurer. If prior approval is given, a report must be promptly forwarded to the reinsurer.
(6) Jointly employ an individual who is employed by the reinsurer, unless such reinsurance intermediary-manager is under common control with the reinsurer subject to the Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Law, La. Rev. Stat. 22:691.1 et seq.
(7) Appoint a subreinsurance intermediary-manager.
Acts 1992, No. 811, §1; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 22:1210.27 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2011, No. 94, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; Acts 2022, No. 161, §1.