North Carolina General Statutes 58-21-11. Home state
(a) The provisions of this Article shall apply to those transactions in which North Carolina is the home state of the insured.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the term “home state” means, with respect to an insured, either of the following:
(1) The state in which an insured maintains its principal place of business or, in the case of an individual, the individual’s principal residence.
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 58-21-11
- Affiliated group: means any group of entities that are all affiliated. See North Carolina General Statutes 58-21-10
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
(2) If one hundred percent (100%) of the insured risk is located out of the state referred to in subdivision (1) of this subsection, the state to which the greatest percentage of the insured’s taxable premium for that insurance contract is allocated.
(c) Affiliated Groups. – If two or more insureds from an affiliated group are named insureds on a single nonadmitted insurance contract, the term “home state” means the home state, as determined pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, of the member of the affiliated group that has the largest percentage of premium attributed to it under that insurance contract. (2011-120, s. 3.)