33-2-1135. ORSA summary report. (1) No more than once a year, the commissioner may request and an insurer or its insurance group shall provide to the commissioner, as provided in subsection (2), an ORSA summary report or any combination of reports that together contain the information described in the ORSA guidance manual as applicable to the insurer and the insurance group of which the insurer is a member.

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Terms Used In Montana Code 33-2-1135

  • Enterprise risk: means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole. See Montana Code 33-2-1101
  • Insurer: has the meaning provided in 33-1-201, except that the term does not include agencies, authorities, or instrumentalities of the United States, its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or a state or political subdivision of a state. See Montana Code 33-2-1101
  • 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.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201

(2)(a) If the insurer is a member of an insurance group, the insurer shall submit any report required under this section to the commissioner when the commissioner is the lead state regulator for that insurance group.

(b)If the insurer is not a member of an insurance group, the insurer shall submit any report required under this section to the commissioner.

(c)An insurer that is a member of an insurance group may voluntarily submit the report to a requesting insurance regulator who is not the lead state regulator for the insurer’s insurance group.

(3)(a) The report must be prepared consistent with the ORSA guidance manual and subsection (3)(b). Documentation and supporting information must be maintained and made available for an examination on request of the commissioner.

(b)The review of the ORSA summary report and any additional requests for information must be made using similar procedures currently used in the analysis and examination of multistate or global insurers and insurance groups.

(4)(a) The report must include the signature of the chief risk officer of the insurer or insurance group or of another executive charged with overseeing the enterprise risk management process for the insurer or the insurance group.

(b)The signature of the chief risk officer or other executive charged with overseeing the enterprise risk management is an attestation that to the best of the officer’s or executive’s knowledge the insurer or insurance group applies the enterprise risk management process described in the ORSA summary report and that a copy of the report has been provided to the board of directors of the insurer or the insurance group or to the appropriate committee of the board of directors.

(5)An insurer may comply with this section by providing the most recent and substantially similar report provided by the insurer or another member of an insurance group of which the insurer is a member to the insurance regulator 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. A report in a language other than English must be accompanied by a translation of the report into English.