Connecticut General Statutes 38a-156t – Plan of division. Approval by interest holders and governors
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c) of this section, a domestic insurer shall not file a plan of division with the commissioner unless such plan has been approved in accordance with: (1) All provisions of its organic rules; or (2) if its organic rules do not provide for approval of a division, all provisions of its organic law and organic rules that provide for approval of a merger.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-156t
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Domestic insurer: means any insurer that has been chartered by, incorporated, organized or constituted within or under the laws of this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
(b) Interest holder approval of a plan of division is not required unless: (1) The organic rules of the domestic insurer require such approval; (2) the plan makes an amendment to the organic rules requiring such approval; or (3) either: (A) The domestic insurer will not survive the proposed division and all interests and other securities and obligations, if any, of the new insurers will be owned solely by the dividing insurer; or (B) the domestic insurer has only one class of interests outstanding and the interests and other securities and obligations, if any, of each new insurer will not be distributed pro rata to the interest holders.
(c) (1) If any provision of the organic rules of a domestic insurer adopted before October 1, 2017, requires that a specific number or percentage of governors or interest holders approve the proposal or adoption of a plan of merger, or imposes other special procedures for the proposal or adoption of a plan of merger, such insurer shall adhere to such provision in proposing or adopting a plan of division.
(2) If a provision of any debt security, note or similar evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed, whether secured or unsecured, indenture or other contract relating to indebtedness, or a provision of any other type of contract other than an insurance policy, annuity or reinsurance agreement, that was issued, incurred or executed by the domestic insurer before October 1, 2017, requires the consent of the obligee to a merger of the insurer or treats such a merger as a default, that provision applies to a division of the insurer as if such division were a merger.
(3) If any provision described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection is amended on or after October 1, 2017, such provision shall thereafter apply to a division only in accordance with its express terms.