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33-2-1902. Definitions

MT Code § 33-2-1902 (2019) (N/A)
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33-2-1902. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Adjusted RBC report" means an RBC report that has been adjusted by the commissioner in accordance with 33-2-1903(6).

(2) "Corrective order" means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions that the commissioner has determined are required.

(3) "Domestic insurer" means any insurance company or health organization domiciled in this state.

(4) "Foreign insurer" means any insurance company licensed to do business in this state under 33-2-116 but not domiciled in this state, or a health organization licensed to do business in this state under Title 33, chapter 31, but not domiciled in this state.

(5) "Health organization" means a health maintenance organization or other managed care organization licensed under Title 33, chapter 31. The term does not include an organization licensed as either a life or disability insurer or a property and casualty insurer, or that is otherwise subject to either the life and health or the property and casualty RBC requirements.

(6) "Insurer" includes life or other disability insurers, property and casualty insurers, and health organizations.

(7) "Life or disability insurer" means:

(a) any insurance company licensed under 33-2-116 and engaged in the business of entering into contracts of disability insurance, as described in 33-1-207, or life insurance, as described in 33-1-208;

(b) a licensed property and casualty insurer writing only disability insurance;

(c) any insurer engaged solely in the business of reinsurance of life or disability contracts;

(d) a fraternal benefit society formed under Title 33, chapter 7; or

(e) a health service corporation formed under Title 33, chapter 30.

(8) "NAIC" means the national association of insurance commissioners.

(9) "Negative trend" means, with respect to a life or health insurer, a negative trend over a period of time, as determined in accordance with the trend test calculation included in the RBC instructions.

(10) (a) "Property and casualty insurer" means:

(i) any insurance company licensed under 33-2-116 and engaged in the business of entering into contracts of property insurance, as described in 33-1-210, or casualty insurance, as described in 33-1-206;

(ii) any insurance company engaged solely in the business of reinsurance of property and casualty contracts; or

(iii) any insurance company engaged in the business of surety and marine insurance.

(b) The term does not include monoline mortgage guaranty insurers, financial guaranty insurers, and title insurers.

(11) "RBC instructions" means the RBC report, including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as the RBC instructions may be amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC.

(12) "RBC level" means an insurer's authorized control level RBC, company action level RBC, mandatory control level RBC, or regulatory action level RBC, in which:

(a) "authorized control level RBC" means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the RBC instructions;

(b) (i) "company action level RBC" means, with respect to any insurer except the state fund as provided in subsection (12)(b)(ii), the product of 2 and its authorized control level RBC;

(ii) "company action level RBC" for the state fund is the product of 4 and its authorized control level RBC;

(c) "mandatory control level RBC" means the product of 0.70 and the authorized control level RBC; and

(d) (i) "regulatory action level RBC" means, except for the state fund as provided in subsection (12)(d)(ii), the product of 1.5 and its authorized control level RBC;

(ii) "regulatory action level RBC" for the state fund is the product of 3 and its authorized control level RBC.

(13) "RBC plan" means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in 33-2-1904(2). If the commissioner rejects the RBC plan and it is revised by the insurer, with or without the commissioner's recommendation, the plan must be called a revised RBC plan.

(14) "RBC report" means the report required in 33-2-1903.

(15) "Total adjusted capital" means the sum of:

(a) an insurer's statutory capital and surplus; and

(b) other items, if any, as the RBC instructions may provide.

History: En. Sec. 83, Ch. 379, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 531, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 63, L. 2015; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 320, L. 2015; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 9, L. 2017.

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33-2-1902. Definitions