Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.1707

  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Insurance group: means , for the purpose of conducting an ORSA, insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system. See Michigan Laws 500.1701
  • Insurer: means that term as defined in section 106. See Michigan Laws 500.1701
  • 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.
  • ORSA: means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by the 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 Michigan Laws 500.1701
  • ORSA guidance manual: means the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual as adopted and prescribed by the director. See Michigan Laws 500.1701
  • ORSA summary report: means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance group's ORSA. See Michigan Laws 500.1701
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  (1) An insurer shall annually submit to the director an ORSA summary report, or any combination of reports that together contain the information as described in the ORSA guidance manual, applicable to the insurer, the insurance group of which it is a member, or both. Within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the insurer shall submit to the director the calendar date the insurer will annually submit the ORSA summary report required under this section. The insurer shall file the first report required under this subsection no later than the insurer’s submitted calendar date in 2018. If the insurer is a member of an insurance group and if the director is the lead state regulator of the insurance group as determined under the procedures within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Financial Analysis Handbook, as adopted by the director, the insurer shall submit a report required by this subsection.
  (2) A report required under subsection (1) must include a signature of the insurer or insurance group’s chief risk officer or other executive having responsibility for the oversight of the insurer’s enterprise risk management process attesting to the best of his or her belief and knowledge that the insurer applies the enterprise risk management process described in the ORSA summary report and that a copy of the report has been provided to the insurer’s board of directors or appropriate committee of the insurer’s board of directors.
  (3) An insurer may comply with subsection (1) by providing the most recent and substantially similar report provided by the insurer or another member of an insurance group of which the insurer is a member to a commissioner of another state or to a supervisor or regulator of a foreign jurisdiction, if the report provides information that is comparable to the information described in the ORSA guidance manual. A report in a language other than English must be accompanied by a translation of the report into the English language.