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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-5-106

  • Advisory prospective loss costs: means historical aggregate losses and loss adjustment expenses projected through development to their ultimate value and through trending to a future point in time. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Commercial risk insurance: means insurance within the scope of this part that is not personal risk insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Multiplier: means a workers' compensation insurance company's determination of the profits and expenses, other than loss expense and loss adjustment expense, all other applicable rating factors, including, but not limited to, schedule rating, experience rating and small deductible credits, and deviation from advisory prospective loss costs associated with writing workers' compensation insurance, which shall be expressed as a single multiplicative factor to be applied equally and uniformly to the advisory prospective loss costs approved by the commissioner in making rates for all classification of risks utilized by the company. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Rate: includes advisory prospective loss costs. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Rate service organization: means any person or organization that assists insurers in ratemaking or filing as authorized by §. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Supplementary rate information: includes any manual or plan of rates, classification, rating schedule, minimum premium, policy fee, rating rule, loss adjustment expense, including defense costs incurred for any reason under the policy, and any other similar information needed to determine the applicable rate in effect or to be in effect. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • Supporting information: means :
    (A) The experience and judgment of the filer and the experience or data of other insurers or organizations relied upon by the filer. See Tennessee Code 56-5-102
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d), every insurer of commercial risk insurance shall file with the commissioner all rates, supplementary rate information, policy forms and endorsements, not later than fifteen (15) days after the effective date; provided, that the rates, supplementary rate information, policy forms and endorsements need not be filed for inland marine risks that by general custom of the business are not written according to manual rules of rating plans. Upon request of the commissioner, supporting information shall also be filed.
(2) The commissioner may, after a hearing providing not less than twenty (20) days’ written notice to the insurer, disapprove any policy form or endorsement already in effect if it does not comply with the law or with rules adopted pursuant to this part or if it contains any provision that is unfair, deceptive or misleading. The disapproval order shall specify the reasons for the commissioner’s findings and the date, not less than thirty (30) days after issuance of the order, when the disapproval is effective, and it shall thereafter be unlawful for the insurer to use the form or endorsement in this state.
(b)

(1) The following insurance coverages are exempt from filing requirements with respect to rates, supplementary rate information, policy forms, and endorsements, where applicable under this chapter, whether the insurance coverage is endorsed to or sold as a stand-alone policy:

(A) Boiler and machinery;
(B) Environmental impairment or pollution liability;
(C) Kidnap and ransom;
(D) Political risk or expropriation;
(E) Employment practices liability;
(F) Media liability; and
(G) Product liability, product recall, and completed operations.
(2) The exemption from filing requirements in this subsection (b) does not affect any other requirements of this title, including those applicable to cancellation of commercial insurance policies.
(3) The insurer shall deliver to the insured and the producer of record a copy of a policy issued pursuant to this subsection (b). The policy may be delivered to the applicant or policyholder electronically and must contain a disclaimer in language the same as or substantially similar to the following:

The rate provided for in this policy and all forms utilized are exempt from the filing requirements of Tenn. Code Ann. § 56-5-106.

(c) With respect to workers’ compensation insurance, a rate service organization designated by one (1) or more insurers shall develop and file for approval with the commissioner in accordance with this section, a filing on behalf of authorized insurers containing advisory prospective loss costs and supporting actuarial and statistical data for workers’ compensation insurance, including loss adjustment expenses. An advisory prospective loss costs filing shall become effective only when approved pursuant to § 50-6-402.
(d) Each workers’ compensation insurer, or group of insurers under common ownership, shall individually file with the commissioner the multiplier and supporting information not later than fifteen (15) days after the effective date. Multipliers shall apply to the most recently approved, currently effective advisory prospective loss cost.
(e) All multipliers filed pursuant to subsection (d) shall be actuarially justified and shall be certified by a member in good standing of the Casualty Actuarial Society.
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