ARKANSAS REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST PACKAGE

FOR

TRUSTEED REINSURER STATUS

 

 

In submitting your request for Trusteed Reinsurer Status, the following information must accompany your company letterhead request for Trusteed Reinsurer Status signed by a ranking executive officer of the company.

 

1.         Sworn statement from an officer of a qualified United States financial institution wherein the trust funds are maintained that they meet the qualifications a shown in Ark. Code Ann. §23-62-307.

 

2.         Copy of the most recent annual report of the assuming insurer provided to the NAIC; sworn to by at least two of the assuming insurer’s executive officers.

 

3.         (a)       If a single assuming insurer – must show proof of MAINTENANCE of a trusteed surplus for business written in the U.S.A. of not less than Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000).

 

(b)       If a group of individual unincorporated underwriters are the assuming insurer – must show proof of MAINTENANCE of a trusteed surplus for business written in the U.S.A. of not less than One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) AND an annual Certificate of Solvency for each underwriter.

 

(c)        If a group of incorporated insurers are the assuming insurer – must show proof of MAINTENANCE of policyholder surplus of not less than Ten Billion Dollars ($10,000,000,000); AND

 

i)  continually in business for at least three years immediately prior to making application for Trusteed Reinsurer Status; AND

 

ii) submits to the Arkansas Insurance Department to examine books and records and bears the expense of examination (proof by affidavit); AND

 

iii)  shows proof of MAINTENANCE of trusteed surplus for business written in the U.S.A. of not less than One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000); AND

 

iv) each group member must provide to the Commissioner an  annual Certification of Solvency by that members domiciliary regulator AND its independent public accountant.

 

4.         Provide a certified copy of the Trust Instrument for approval by the Commissioner.

 

5.         Submit to the Arkansas Insurance Department’s authority to examine the trust and the assuming insurer’s books and records as determined by the Commissioner (proof by affidavit).

 

6.         No later than February 28 of each year, the trustees of the trust shall report to the Commissioner in writing setting forth the balance of the trust and listing the trust’s investments at the preceding year end and certify by affidavit.

 

(a)       that the trust shall not expire before December 31 date OR

(b)       when the trust shall terminate.

 

7.         Designate the Commissioner or a designated attorney as its true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served any lawful process in any action, suit, or proceeding instituted by or on the behalf of the ceding company.

 

8.         Submit to the jurisdiction of any court of competent jurisdiction in any state in the U.S.A. and will abide by that court’s decision.

 

9.         Provide a copy of the most recent audited financial statement.

 

10.       Provide a copy of the most recent examination report.

 

11.             Provide a list semi-annually of Arkansas Domestic Companies, which cede business to company, along with the reinsurance intermediaries, which placed such business.

 

12.       Initial registration and annual renewal of $500.

 

 

For yearly renewal of Trusteed Reinsurer status, the requirements listed at number 2

(Annual statement filing) and number 11 must be current along with the submission of

the annual renewal fee listed at number 12.

 

Submit all of the above-required information to the attention of:

 

Angela Davis, Mgmt Project Analyst II
Arkansas Insurance Department

1200 West Third Street

Little Rock, AR 72201-1904

501-683-0231, fax 501-371-2747