(a)Statement of Actuarial Opinion. On or before March 1, 2012, and annually every year thereafter, every property and casualty insurance company doing business in this state, unless otherwise exempted by the domiciliary commissioner, shall submit the opinion of an appointed actuary entitled “Statement of Actuarial Opinion”. This opinion shall be filed with the appropriate National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) property and casualty annual statement instructions and shall cover the activity of the prior calendar year.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-1-419

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • insurance company: includes all corporations, associations, partnerships, or individuals engaged as principals in the business of insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. 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
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)Actuarial Opinion Summary.

(1) Every property and casualty insurance company domiciled in this state that is required to submit a statement of actuarial opinion shall annually submit an actuarial opinion summary, written by the company’s appointed actuary. This actuarial opinion summary shall be filed in accordance with the appropriate NAIC property and casualty annual statement instructions and shall be considered as a document supporting the actuarial opinion required in subsection (a).
(2) A company licensed but not domiciled in this state shall provide the actuarial opinion summary upon request.
(c)Actuarial Report and Work Papers.

(1) An actuarial report and underlying work papers as required by the appropriate NAIC property and casualty annual statement instructions shall be prepared to support each actuarial opinion.
(2) If the insurance company fails to provide a supporting actuarial report and/or work papers at the request of the commissioner or the commissioner determines that the supporting actuarial report or work papers provided by the insurance company is otherwise unacceptable to the commissioner, the commissioner may engage a qualified actuary at the expense of the company to review the opinion and the basis for the opinion and prepare the supporting actuarial report or work papers.
(d) The appointed actuary shall not be liable for damages to any person, other than the insurance company and the commissioner, for any act, error, omission, decision or conduct with respect to the actuary’s opinion, except in cases of fraud or willful misconduct on the part of the appointed actuary.
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