Minnesota Statutes § 60D.19 - REGISTRATION OF INSURERS

§ Subdivision 1.Registration. Every domestic insurer that is a member of an insurance holding company system shall register with the commissioner. Any insurer that is subject to registration under this section shall register within 15 days after it becomes subject to registration, and annually thereafter by June 1 of each year for the previous calendar year, unless the commissioner for good cause shown extends the time for registration, and then within such extended time. The commissioner may require any insurer authorized to do business in the state that is a member of an insurance holding company system, and that is not subject to registration under this section, to furnish a copy of the registration statement, the summary specified in subdivision 3 or other information filed by the insurance company with the insurance regulatory authority of domiciliary jurisdiction. § Subd. 2.Information and form required. Every insurer subject to registration shall file the registration statement with the commissioner on a form and in a format prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, containing the following current information: (1) the capital structure, general financial condition, ownership, and management of the insurer and any person controlling the insurer; (2) the identity and relationship of every member of the insurance holding company system; (3) the following agreements in force, and transactions currently outstanding or that have occurred during the last calendar year between the insurer and its affiliates: (i) loans, other investments, or purchases, sales, or exchanges of securities of the affiliates by the insurer or of the insurer by its affiliates; (ii) purchases, sales, or exchange of assets; (iii) transactions not in the ordinary course of business; (iv) guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate which result in an actual contingent exposure of the insurer's assets to liability, other than insurance contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the insurer's business; (v) all management agreements, service contracts, and all cost-sharing arrangements; (vi) reinsurance agreements; (vii) dividends and other distributions to shareholders; and (viii) consolidated tax allocation agreements; (4) any pledge of the insurer's stock, including stock of any subsidiary or controlling affiliate, for a loan made to any member of the insurance holding company system; (5) if requested by the commissioner, financial statements of or within an insurance holding company system and all affiliates including, but not limited to, annual audited financial statements filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. An insurer required to file financial statements pursuant to this clause may satisfy the request by providing the commissioner with the most recently filed parent corporation financial statements that have been filed with the SEC; (6) other matters concerning transactions between registered insurers and any affiliates as may be included from time to time in any registration forms adopted or approved by the commissioner; (7) statements that the insurer's board of directors oversees corporate governance and internal controls and that the insurer's officers or senior management have approved and implemented, and continue to maintain and monitor, corporate governance and internal control procedures; and (8) any other information required by the commissioner by rule. § Subd. 3.Summary of changes to registration statement. All registration statements must contain a summary outlining all items in the current registration statement representing changes from the prior registration statement. § Subd. 4.Materiality. No information need be disclosed on the registration statement filed pursuant to subdivision 2 if the information is not material for the purposes of this section. Unless the commissioner by rule or order provides otherwise; sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or extensions of credit, investments, or guarantees involving one-half of one percent or less of an insurer's admitted assets as of the 31st day of December next preceding shall not be deemed material for purposes of this section. The definition of materiality provided in this subdivision does not apply for purposes of the group capital calculation or the NAIC liquidity stress test framework. § Subd. 5. [Repealed, 1994 c 425 s 18] § Subd. 6.Information of insurers. Any person within an insurance holding company system subject to registration shall be required to provide complete and accurate information to an insurer where such information is reasonably necessary to enable the insurer to comply with the provisions of this chapter. § Subd. 7.Termination of registration. The commissioner shall terminate the registration of any insurer which demonstrates that it no longer is a member of an insurance holding company system. § Subd. 8.Consolidated filing. The commissioner may require or allow two or more affiliated insurers subject to registration to file a consolidated registration statement. § Subd. 9.Alternative registration. The commissioner may allow an insurer that is authorized to do business in this state and that is part of an insurance holding company system to register on behalf of any affiliated insurer that is required to register under subdivision 1 and to file all information and material required to be filed under this section. § Subd. 10.Exemptions. The provisions of this section do not apply to any insurer, information, or transaction if and to the extent that the commissioner by rule or order shall exempt the same from the provisions of this section. § Subd. 11.Disclaimer. Any person may file with the commissioner a disclaimer of affiliation with any authorized insurer or the disclaimer may be filed by the insurer or any member of an insurance holding company system. The disclaimer shall fully disclose all material relationships and bases for affiliation between the person and the insurer as well as the basis for disclaiming the affiliation. A disclaimer of affiliation is deemed to have been granted unless the commissioner, within 30 days following receipt of a complete disclaimer, notifies the filing party that the disclaimer is disallowed. In the event of disallowance, the disclaiming party may request an administrative hearing, which must be granted. The disclaiming party is relieved of its duty to register under this section if approval of the disclaimer has been granted by the commissioner, or if the disclaimer is deemed to have been approved. § Subd. 11a.Enterprise risk filing. The ultimate controlling person of an insurer subject to registration shall also file an annual enterprise risk report. The report must, to the best of the ultimate controlling person's knowledge and belief, identify the material risks within the insurance holding company system that could pose enterprise risk to the insurer. The report must be filed with the lead state commissioner of the insurance holding company system as determined by the procedures within the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. § Subd. 11b.Group capital calculation. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the ultimate controlling person of every insurer subject to registration must concurrently file with the registration an annual group capital calculation as directed by the commissioner. The report must be completed in accordance with the NAIC group capital calculation instructions, which may permit the commissioner to allow a controlling person that is not the ultimate controlling person to file the group capital calculation. The report must be filed with the commissioner, as determined by the commissioner in accordance with the procedures within the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC. The following insurance holding company systems are exempt from filing the group capital calculation: (1) an insurance holding company system that (i) has only one insurer within the insurance holding company system's holding company structure, (ii) only writes business and is only licensed in the insurance holding company system's domestic state, and (iii) assumes no business from any other insurer; (2) an insurance holding company system that is required to perform a group capital calculation specified by the United States Federal Reserve Board. The commissioner must request the calculation from the Federal Reserve Board under the terms of information sharing agreements in effect. If the Federal Reserve Board is unable to share the calculation with the commissioner, the insurance holding company system is not exempt from the group capital calculation filing; (3) an insurance holding company system whose non-United States groupwide supervisor is located within a reciprocal jurisdiction as described in section 60A.092, subdivision 10b, that recognizes the United States state regulatory approach to group supervision and group capital; or (4) an insurance holding company system: (i) that provides information to the commissioner that meets the requirements for accreditation under the NAIC financial standards and accreditation program, either directly or indirectly through the groupwide supervisor, that has determined the information is satisfactory to allow the commissioner to comply with the NAIC group supervision approach, as detailed in the NAIC Financial Analysis Handbook; and (ii) whose non-United States groupwide supervisor that is not in a reciprocal jurisdiction recognizes and accepts, as specified by the commissioner by rule, the group capital calculation as the worldwide group capital assessment for United States insurance groups that operate in that jurisdiction. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), clauses (3) and (4), a commissioner must require the group capital calculation for the United States operations of any non-United States based insurance holding company system where, after any necessary consultation with other supervisors or officials, requiring the group capital calculation is deemed appropriate by the commissioner for prudential oversight and solvency monitoring purposes or for ensuring the competitiveness of the insurance marketplace. (c) Notwithstanding the exemptions from filing the group capital calculation under paragraph (a), the commissioner may exempt the ultimate controlling person from filing the annual group capital calculation or accept a limited group capital filing or report in accordance with criteria specified by the commissioner by rule. (d) If the commissioner determines that an insurance holding company system no longer meets one or more of the requirements for an exemption from filing the group capital calculation under this subdivision, the insurance holding company system must file the group capital calculation at the next annual filing date unless given an extension by the commissioner based on reasonable grounds shown. § Subd. 11c.Liquidity stress test. (a) The ultimate controlling person of every insurer subject to registration and also scoped into the NAIC liquidity stress test framework must file the results of a specific year's liquidity stress test. The filing must be made to the commissioner, as determined by the procedures within the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC. (b) The NAIC liquidity stress test framework includes scope criteria applicable to a specific data year. The scope criteria must be reviewed at least annually by the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force's successor. Any change made to the NAIC liquidity stress test framework or to the data year for which the scope criteria must be measured is effective January 1 of the year following the calendar year in which the change is adopted. An insurer meeting at least one threshold of the scope criteria is scoped into the NAIC liquidity stress test framework for the specified data year unless the commissioner, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force's successor, determines the insurer should not be scoped into the framework for that data year. An insurer that does not trigger at least one threshold of the scope criteria is scoped out of the NAIC liquidity stress test framework for the specified data year unless the commissioner, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force's successor, determines the insurer should be scoped into the framework for the specified data year. (c) The commissioner and other state insurance commissioners must avoid scoping insurers in and out of the NAIC liquidity stress test framework on a frequent basis. The commissioner, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force's successor, must assess irregular scope status as part of an insurer's determination. (d) The performance of and filing of the results from a specific year's liquidity stress test must comply with (1) the NAIC liquidity stress test framework's instructions and reporting templates for the specific year, and (2) any commissioner determinations, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force's successor, provided within the framework. § Subd. 12.Violations. The failure to file a registration statement or any summary of the registration statement or enterprise risk filing required by this section within the time specified for the filing is a violation of this section.