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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 6034d

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Captive insurance company: means any pure captive insurance company, association captive insurance company, sponsored captive insurance company, industrial insured captive insurance company, agency captive insurance company, risk retention group, affiliated reinsurance company, or special purpose financial insurance company formed or licensed under the provisions of this chapter. See
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation. See
  • Incorporated protected cell: means a protected cell that, subject to the approval of the Commissioner, is formed as any type of entity permissible under Vermont law, separate from the sponsored captive insurance company of which it is a part. See
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Participant: means an entity as defined in section 6036 of this title, and any affiliates thereof, that are insured by a sponsored captive insurance company, where the losses of the participant are limited through a participant contract to such participant's pro rata share of the assets of one or more protected cells identified in such participant contract. See
  • Protected cell: means a separate account established by a sponsored captive insurance company formed or licensed under the provisions of this chapter, in which assets are maintained for one or more participants in accordance with the terms of one or more participant contracts to fund the liability of the sponsored captive insurance company assumed on behalf of such participants as set forth in such participant contracts, and shall include an "incorporated protected cell" as defined in this section. See
  • Sponsor: means any entity that meets the requirements of section 6035 of this title and is approved by the Commissioner to provide all or part of the capital and surplus required by applicable law and to organize and operate a sponsored captive insurance company. See
  • Sponsored captive insurance company: means any captive insurance company:

§ 6034d. Sale, transfer, or assignment of protected cells

(a) Subject to the prior written approval of the Commissioner, on application of the sponsor and with the prior consent of each participant of the affected protected cell or as otherwise permitted pursuant to a participation agreement, or the consent of the affected incorporated protected cell, a sponsored captive insurance company or a sponsored captive insurance company licensed as a special purpose financial insurance company may sell, transfer, assign, and otherwise convey a protected cell or incorporated protected cell together with all of the protected cell’s assets, rights, benefits, obligations, and liabilities to a new or existing sponsored captive insurance company or sponsored captive insurance company licensed as a special purpose financial insurance company, pursuant to a plan or plans of operation approved by the Commissioner.

(b) Any such sale, transfer, assignment, or conveyance shall be deemed for all purposes to be a continuation of the protected cell’s existence together with all of its assets, rights, benefits, obligations, and liabilities, as a protected cell of the transferee.

(c) Any such sale, transfer, assignment, or conveyance shall not be construed to limit any rights or protections applicable to the transferred protected cell or incorporated protected cell and the transferor sponsored captive insurance company or sponsored captive insurance company licensed as a special purpose financial insurance company under this subchapter or under section 6048n of this title, as applicable, that existed immediately prior to any such sale, transfer, assignment, or conveyance. (Added 2015, No. 74 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. April 13, 2016; amended 2019, No. 110 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. June 15, 2020.)