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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-10-303

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. 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
(1) No non-renewals, cancellations or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements need be reported pursuant to § 56-10-301 if the non-renewals, cancellations or revisions are not material. For purposes of this part, a material non-renewal, cancellation or revision is one that affects:

(A) As respects property and casualty business, including accident and health business written by a property and casualty insurer:

(i) More than fifty percent (50%) of the insurer’s total ceded written premium; or
(ii) More than fifty percent (50%) of the insurer’s total ceded indemnity and loss adjustment reserves.
(B) As respects life, annuity, and accident and health business: more than fifty percent (50%) of the total reserve credit taken for business ceded, on an annualized basis, as indicated in the insurer’s most recent annual statement; and
(C) As respects either property and casualty or life, annuity, and accident and health business, either of the following events shall constitute a material revision which must be reported:

(i) An authorized reinsurer representing more than ten percent (10%) of a total cession is replaced by one (1) or more unauthorized reinsurers; or
(ii) Previously established collateral requirements have been reduced or waived as respects one (1) or more unauthorized reinsurers representing collectively more than ten percent (10%) of a total cession.
(2) However, no filing shall be required if:

(A) As respects property and casualty business, including accident and health business written by a property and casualty insurer: the insurer’s total ceded written premium represents, on an annualized basis, less than ten percent (10%) of its total written premium for direct and assumed business; or
(B) As respects life, annuity, and accident and health business: the total reserve credit taken for business ceded represents, on an annualized basis, less than ten percent (10%) of the statutory reserve requirement prior to any cession.
(b)

(1) The following information is required to be disclosed in any report of a material non-renewal, cancellation or revision of ceded reinsurance agreements:

(A) Effective date of the non-renewal, cancellation or revision;
(B) The description of the transaction with an identification of the initiator thereof;
(C) Purpose of, or reason for, the transaction; and
(D) If applicable, the identity of the replacement reinsurers.
(2) Insurers are required to report all material non-renewals, cancellations or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements on a non-consolidated basis unless the insurer is part of a consolidated group of insurers that utilizes a pooling arrangement or one hundred percent (100%) reinsurance agreement that affects the solvency and integrity of the insurer’s reserves, and the insurer ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to the pool. An insurer is deemed to have ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to a pool if the insurer has less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) total direct plus assumed written premiums during a calendar year that are not subject to a pooling arrangement, and the net income of the business not subject to the pooling arrangement represents less than five percent (5%) of the insurer’s capital and surplus.
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