Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 40-6002

  • Act: means the risk management and own risk and solvency assessment act. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • Commissioner: means the state commissioner of insurance. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • Insurance group: means those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • Insurer: has the meaning ascribed to it in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • NAIC: means the national association of insurance commissioners. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • ORSA: means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale and complexity of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by that insurer or insurance group of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer or insurance group's current business plan and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks. See Kansas Statutes 40-6002
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

As used in this act:

(a) “Act” means the risk management and own risk and solvency assessment act.

(b) “Commissioner” means the state commissioner of insurance.

(c) “Insurance group” means those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-3302, and amendments thereto.

(d) “Insurer” has the meaning ascribed to it in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 40-3302, and amendments thereto, except that it shall not include agencies, authorities or instrumentalities of the United States, its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or a state or political subdivision of a state.

(e) “NAIC” means the national association of insurance commissioners.

(f) “Own risk and solvency assessment” or “ORSA” means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale and complexity of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by that insurer or insurance group of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer or insurance group’s current business plan and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks.

(g) “ORSA guidance manual” means the current version of the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual developed and adopted by the NAIC, as in effect on January 1, 2017.

(h) “ORSA summary report” means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance group’s ORSA.