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Terms Used In Maryland Code, INSURANCE 32-105

  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) On request of the Commissioner, but not more than once each year, a carrier shall submit to the Commissioner an ORSA Summary Report or a combination of reports that together contain the information described in the ORSA Guidance Manual, applicable to the carrier or the insurance group of which the carrier is a member.

(b) Notwithstanding any request from the Commissioner, if the carrier is a member of an insurance group, the carrier shall submit the report required by this section if the Commissioner is the lead state commissioner of the insurance group as determined by the procedures in the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC.

(c) The carrier shall:

(1) determine the most appropriate date of the filing based on the carrier’s internal strategic planning processes; and

(2) notify the Commissioner of the anticipated date of the filing.

(d) The carrier’s or insurance group’s chief risk officer or other executive with responsibility for the oversight of the carrier’s enterprise risk management process shall sign the report and attest to the best of that individual’s belief and knowledge that:

(1) the carrier applies the enterprise risk management process described in the ORSA Summary Report; and

(2) a copy of the report has been provided to the carrier’s board of directors or the appropriate committee of the board.

(e) A carrier may comply with subsection (a) of this section by providing the most recent and substantially similar report that the carrier or another member of an insurance group of which the carrier is a member provided to the commissioner of another state or to a supervisor or regulator of a foreign jurisdiction if that report provides information that is comparable to the information described in the ORSA Guidance Manual.

(f) Any report that is provided under subsection (e) of this section in a language other than English must be accompanied by a translation of that report into English.