515.49 Limitation on risks.
A company shall not expose itself to loss on any one risk or hazard to an amount exceeding ten percent of its surplus to policyholders unless one of the following applies:
1. The excess is reinsured in some other good and reliable company licensed to sell insurance in this state.
2. The excess is reinsured by a group of individual unincorporated insurers who are authorized to sell insurance in at least one state of the United States and who possess assets which are held in trust for the benefit of the American policyholders in the sum of not less than fifty million dollars, and a certificate of such reinsurance shall be furnished to the insured.
3. The excess is reinsured with a company which has, with respect to the ceding insurer, created a trust fund, made a deposit, or obtained letters of credit, on terms satisfactory to the commissioner.
[C73, §1132; C97, §1710; S13, §1710; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8941; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §515.49]
88 Acts, ch 1112, §403
Referred to in §515.48, 521.13
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