Code of Virginia - Title 6.1 Banking And Finance - Section 6.1-58.2 Insurance business of controlled subsidiary

§ 6.1-58.2. Insurance business of controlled subsidiary

In addition to the types of business authorized in § 6.1-58.1, a controlled subsidiary corporation may be formed (i) to transact the type of insurance business specified in § 38.2-120 and other insurance normally written under the coverage known as financial institution blanket bonds, (ii) to underwrite insurance indemnifying the bank, its holding companies or its affiliates, and their directors and officers against liability, and (iii) subject to such conditions as the Commission may impose, to underwrite reinsurance of mortgage guaranty insurance on loans secured by real estate made or purchased by such controlled reinsurance subsidiary's affiliates or by a bank or banks owning such controlled subsidiary, provided such controlled subsidiary corporations transact only the insurance business specifically permitted by this section. The investment of any bank in the stock, services or other obligations of such a controlled subsidiary shall not exceed two percent of such bank's capital, surplus and undivided profits. Such controlled subsidiary shall be subject to the further provisions of Title 38.2 otherwise applicable to insurance companies transacting a comparable business. For the purpose of this section, a controlled subsidiary corporation may be a domestic or foreign corporation and the majority of its voting stock be owned, directly or indirectly, by (i) a bank or banks organized under the laws of the United States, (ii) a bank or banks organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, (iii) a bank or banks organized under the laws of one of the other states of the United States, or (iv) a "bank holding company" owning a bank or banks in this Commonwealth or in another state.

(1976, c. 340; 1977, c. 190; 1986, c. 638; 1998, c. 48.)

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