(a) If a domiciliary liquidator has been appointed for an insurer not domiciled in this state, the commissioner may file a petition with the chancery court of Davidson County requesting appointment as ancillary receiver in this state:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-9-404

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator or conservator as the context requires. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Reciprocal: means the aggregation of subscribers under a common name. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • State: means any state, district or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Transfer: includes the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
(1) If the commissioner finds that there are sufficient assets of the insurer located in this state to justify the appointment of an ancillary receiver; and
(2) If the protection of creditors or policyholders in this state so requires.
(b) The court may issue an order appointing an ancillary receiver in whatever terms it deems appropriate. The filing or recording of the order with the recorder of deeds in this state imparts the same notice as a deed, bill of sale or other evidence of title duly filed or recorded with that recorder of deeds.
(c)

(1) When a domiciliary liquidator has been appointed in a reciprocal state, then the ancillary receiver appointed in this state may, whenever necessary, aid and assist the domiciliary liquidator in recovering assets of the insurer located in this state.
(2) The ancillary receiver shall, as soon as practicable, liquidate from their respective securities those special deposit claims and secured claims that are proved and allowed in the ancillary proceedings in this state, and shall pay the necessary expenses of the proceedings. The ancillary receiver shall promptly transfer all remaining assets, books, accounts and records to the domiciliary liquidator.
(3) Subject to this section, the ancillary receiver and the ancillary receiver’s deputies have the same powers and are subject to the same duties with respect to the administration of assets as a liquidator of an insurer domiciled in this state.
(d) When a domiciliary liquidator has been appointed in this state, ancillary receivers appointed in reciprocal states have, as to assets and books, accounts, and other records in their respective states, rights, duties and powers corresponding to those provided in subsection (c) for ancillary receivers appointed in this state.
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