(a) No nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements shall be reported pursuant to Section 1185 if the nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions are not material. For purposes of this article, a material nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision is one that affects for property and casualty business, including accident and health business when written as such, more than 50 percent of an insurer’s ceded written premium, or for life, annuity, and accident and health business, more than 50 percent of the total reserve credit taken for business ceded, on an annualized basis as indicated in the insurer’s most recently filed statutory statement; provided, however, that no filing is required if the insurer’s ceded written premium or the total reserve credit taken for business ceded represents, on an annualized basis, less than 10 percent of direct plus assumed written premium or 10 percent of the statutory reserve requirement prior to any cession, respectively.
(b) Subject to the criteria specified in subdivision (a), a report is to be filed without regard to which party has initiated the nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision of ceded reinsurance whenever one or more of the following conditions exist:
(1) The entire cession has been canceled, nonrenewed, or revised and ceded indemnity and loss adjustment expense reserves after any nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision represent less than 50 percent of the comparable reserves that would have been ceded had the nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision not occurred.
(2) An authorized or accredited reinsurer has been replaced on an existing cession by an unauthorized reinsurer.
(3) Collateral requirements previously established for unauthorized reinsurers have been reduced; for example, the requirement to collateralize incurred but not reported (IBNR) claim reserves has been waived with respect to one or more unauthorized reinsurers newly participating in an existing cession.
(4) Subject to the materiality criteria, for purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3), a report shall be filed if the result of the revision affects more than 10 percent of the cession.
(c) The following information is required to be disclosed in any report of a material nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision of ceded reinsurance agreements:
(1) Effective date of the nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision.
(2) The description of the transaction with an identification of the initiator thereof.
(3) Purpose of, or reason for, the transaction.
(4) If applicable, the identity of the replacement reinsurers.
(d) Insurers shall report all material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements on a nonconsolidated basis unless the insurer is part of a consolidated group of insurers which utilizes a pooling arrangement or 100 percent reinsurance agreement that affects the solvency and integrity of the insurer’s reserves and the insurer ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to the pool. An insurer is deemed to have ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to a pool if the insurer has less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) total direct plus assumed written premiums during a calendar year that are not subject to a pooling arrangement and the net income of the business not subject to the pooling arrangement represents less than 5 percent of the insurer’s capital and surplus.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 662, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1995.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018