(a) At least once in three years, and whenever the commissioner determines it to be prudent, the commissioner shall visit each captive insurance company and thoroughly inspect and examine its affairs to ascertain its financial condition, its ability to fulfill its obligations, and whether it has complied with this chapter. The commissioner, upon application, may enlarge the three-year period to five years, provided the captive insurance company is subject to a comprehensive annual audit during that period of a scope satisfactory to the commissioner by independent auditors approved by the commissioner. The expenses and charges of the examination shall be in accordance with Section 27-2-25.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-31B-10
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
writing: includes typewriting and printing on paper. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) All examination reports, preliminary examination reports or results, working papers, recorded information, documents, and copies thereof produced by, obtained by, or disclosed to the commissioner or any other person in the course of an examination made under this section are confidential and are not subject to subpoena and may not be made public by the commissioner or an employee or agent of the commissioner without the written consent of the company, except to the extent provided in this subsection. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent the commissioner from using the information in furtherance of the commissioner’s regulatory authority under this title. The commissioner may grant access to the information to public officers having jurisdiction over the regulation of insurance in any other state or country, or to law enforcement officers of this state or any other state or agency of the federal government at any time, so long as the officers receiving the information agree in writing to hold it in a manner consistent with this section.(c)(1) This section applies to all business written by a captive insurance company, except that the examination for a branch captive insurance company shall be of branch business and branch operations only, as long as the branch captive insurance company provides annually to the commissioner a certificate of compliance, or its equivalent, issued by or filed with the licensing authority of the jurisdiction in which the branch captive insurance company is formed, and demonstrates to the commissioner’s satisfaction that it is operating in sound financial condition in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdiction.(2) As a condition of licensure, an alien captive insurance company shall grant authority to the commissioner for examination of the affairs of the alien captive insurance company in the jurisdiction in which the alien captive insurance company is formed.(d) To the extent that Sections 27-2-22 through 27-2-32, do not contradict this section, the sections shall apply to captive insurance companies licensed under this chapter.
