Nebraska Statutes > Chapter 44 > § 44-165 - Financial conglomerate; supervision on consolidated basis; director; powers; duties; application fee; violation; enforcement powers; administrative penalty; unfair trade practice; criminal penalty; appeal; expenses of supervision
Current as of: 2010 (1)(a) A financial conglomerate may submit to the jurisdiction of the Director of Insurance for supervision on a consolidated basis under this section. Supervision under this section shall be in addition to all statutory and regulatory requirements imposed on domestic insurers and shall be for the purpose of determining how the operations of the financial conglomerate impact insurance operations. (b) For purposes of this section: (i) Control has the same meaning as in section 44-2121; and (ii) Financial conglomerate means either an insurance company domiciled in Nebraska or a person established under the laws of the United States, any state, or the District of Columbia which directly or indirectly controls an insurance company domiciled in Nebraska. Financial conglomerate includes the person applying for supervision under this section and all entities, whether insurance companies or otherwise, to the extent the entities are controlled by such person. (2) The director may approve any application for supervision under this section that meets the requirements of this section and the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this section. (3)(a) The director shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for supervision of a financial conglomerate, including all persons controlled by a financial conglomerate, that will permit the director to assess at the level of the financial conglomerate the financial situation of the financial conglomerate, including solvency, risk concentration, and intra-group transactions. (b) Such rules and regulations shall require the financial conglomerate to: (i) Have in place sufficient capital adequacy policies at the level of the financial conglomerate; (ii) Report to the director at least annually any significant risk concentration at the level of the financial conglomerate; (iii) Report to the director at least annually all significant intra-group transactions of regulated entities within a financial conglomerate. Such reporting shall be in addition to all reports required under any other provision of Chapter 44; and (iv) Have in place at the level of the financial conglomerate adequate risk management processes and internal control mechanisms, including sound administrative and accounting procedures. (c) In adopting and promulgating the rules and regulations, the director: (i) Shall consider the rules and regulations that may be adopted by a member state of the European Union, the European Union, or any other country for the supervision of financial conglomerates; (ii) Shall require the filing of such information as the director may determine; (iii) Shall include standards and processes for effective qualitative group assessment, quantitative group assessment including capital adequacy, affiliate transaction, and risk concentration assessment, risks and internal capital assessments, disclosure requirements, and investigation and enforcement powers; (iv) Shall state that supervision of financial conglomerates concerns how the operations of the financial conglomerate impact the insurance operations; (v) Shall adopt an application fee in an amount not to exceed the amount necessary to recover the cost of review and analysis of the application; and (vi) May verify information received under this section. (4)(a) If it appears to the director that a financial conglomerate that submits to the jurisdiction of the director under this section, or any director, officer, employee, or agent thereof, willfully violates this section or the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this section, the director may order the financial conglomerate to cease and desist immediately any such activity. After notice and hearing, the director may order the financial conglomerate to void any contracts between the financial conglomerate and any of its affiliates or among affiliates of the financial conglomerate and restore the status quo if such action is in the best interest of policyholders, creditors, or the public. (b) If it appears to the director that any financial conglomerate that submits to the jurisdiction of the director under this section, or any director, officer, employee, or agent thereof, has committed or is about to commit a violation of this section or the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this section, the director may apply to the district court of Lancaster County for an order enjoining such financial conglomerate, director, officer, employee, or agent from violating or continuing to violate this section or the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this section and for such other equitable relief as the nature of the case and the interest of the financial conglomerate's policyholders, creditors, or the public may require. (c)(i) Any financial conglomerate that fails, without just cause, to provide information which may be required under the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this section may be required by the director, after notice and hearing, to pay an administrative penalty of one hundred dollars for each day's delay not to exceed an aggregate penalty of ten thousand dollars. The director may reduce the penalty if the financial conglomerate
Laws 2008, LB855, ยง 50. ________________________________________________________________________
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