North Dakota Code 26.1-14-09 – Reserves for malpractice claims
1. The reserve maintained by the company for outstanding losses under insurance against injury arising out of the rendering of or the failure to render professional services by an insured for all policies written during the eight years immediately preceding the date of the reserve determination must be seventy percent of the earned premiums of each of the eight years less all losses and loss expense payments made under policies written in the corresponding years.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 26.1-14-09
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- 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.
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
2. In any event, the reserves for each of the eight years may not be less than the aggregate of estimated unpaid losses and loss expenses for claims incurred under liability policies written in the corresponding year computed on an individual case basis as to cases known and reported, plus reserves in an amount estimated in the aggregate to provide for the payment of all losses or claims incurred on or prior to the date of valuation but not previously reported, including an amount estimated to provide for the expenses of adjustment, settlement, or litigation of the losses or claims.