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Section 38-46-90. Party engaged to act as intermediary-manager to be licensed; annual filing of financial statements; loss reserves; authority for retrocessional contracts or participation in reinsurance syndicates; notice of termination of contract with intermediary-manager; persons in certain positions not to serve on reinsurer's board.

SC Code § 38-46-90 (2019) (N/A)
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(A) A reinsurer may not engage the services of a person, a firm, an association, or a corporation to act as a reinsurance intermediary-manager on its behalf unless the person is licensed as required by Section 38-46-30.

(B) The reinsurer annually shall file with the department not later than June first a copy of statements of the financial condition of each reinsurance intermediary-manager, which the reinsurer has engaged, prepared by an independent certified accountant in a form acceptable to the director or his designee.

(C) If a reinsurance intermediary-manager establishes loss reserves, the reinsurer annually shall obtain the opinion of an actuary attesting to the adequacy of loss reserves established for losses incurred and outstanding on business produced by the reinsurance intermediary-manager. The opinion must be filed not later than June first. This opinion is in addition to other required loss reserve certification.

(D) Binding authority for all retrocessional contracts or participation in reinsurance syndicates rests with an officer of the reinsurer who must not be affiliated with the reinsurance intermediary-manager.

(E) Within thirty days of termination of a contract with a reinsurance intermediary-manager, the reinsurer shall provide written notification of termination to the department.

(F) A reinsurer may not appoint to its board of directors an officer, a director, an employee, a controlling shareholder, or a subproducer of its reinsurance intermediary-manager. This subsection does not apply to relationships governed by the Insurance Holding Company Regulatory Act or, if applicable, the Broker Controlled Insurer Act.

HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 332, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 677; 2019 Act No. 6 (S.360), Section 7.B, eff July 1, 2019.

Effect of Amendment

2019 Act No. 6, Section 7.B, in (B), substituted "not later than June" for "not later than March"; and in (C), in the second sentence, substituted "not later than June first" for "not later than March first".

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Section 38-46-90. Party engaged to act as intermediary-manager to be licensed; annual filing of financial statements; loss reserves; authority for retrocessional contracts or participation in reinsurance syndicates; notice of termination of contract with intermediary-manager; persons in certain positions not to serve on reinsurer's board.