Connecticut General Statutes 38a-156x – Responsibility and liability of resulting insurers
(a) Except as provided in this section, when a division becomes effective, a resulting insurer is responsible: (1) Individually for the policies and other liabilities the resulting insurer issues, undertakes or incurs in its own name after the division; (2) individually for the policies and other liabilities of the dividing insurer that are allocated to or remain the liability of that resulting insurer to the extent specified in the plan of division; and (3) jointly and severally with the other resulting insurers for the policies and other liabilities of the dividing insurer that are not allocated by the plan of division.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 38a-156x
- Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
- 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.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- liabilities: shall include but not be limited to reserves required by statute or by regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 or specific requirements imposed by the commissioner upon a subject company at the time of admission or subsequent thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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
- Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
(b) If a division breaches an obligation of the dividing insurer, all of the resulting insurers are liable, jointly and severally, for the breach, but the validity and effectiveness of the division shall not be affected by the breach.
(c) A direct or indirect allocation of capital, surplus, property, or policies or other liabilities in a division is not a distribution for purposes of the organic law of the dividing insurer or any of the resulting insurers.
(d) Liens, security interests and other charges on the capital, surplus or other property of the dividing insurer are not impaired by the division, notwithstanding any otherwise enforceable allocation of policies or other liabilities of the dividing insurer.
(e) If the dividing insurer is bound by a security agreement governed by Article 9 of title 42a, or Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in any other jurisdiction, and the security agreement provides that the security interest attaches to after-acquired collateral, each resulting insurer is bound by the security agreement.
(f) Except as provided in the plan of division and specifically approved by the commissioner, an allocation of a policy or other liability does not: (1) Affect the rights under other law of a policyholder or creditor owed payment on the policy, or payment of any other type of liability or performance of the obligation that creates the liability, except that those rights are available only against a resulting insurer responsible for the policy, liability or obligation under this section; or (2) release or reduce the obligation of a reinsurer, surety or guarantor of the policy, liability or obligation.