Terms Used In Michigan Laws 500.4723

  • Insurance securitization: means a package of related risk transfer instruments, capital market offerings, and facilitating administrative agreements by which all of the following apply:
  (i) The proceeds of the sale of SPFC securities are obtained, in a transaction that complies with applicable securities laws, by an SPFC directly through the issuance of the SPFC securities by the SPFC or indirectly through the issuance of preferred securities by the SPFC in exchange for some or all of the proceeds of the sale of SPFC securities by the SPFC's parent, an affiliated company of the SPFC, a counterparty, or a captive LLC. See Michigan Laws 500.4701
  • Preferred securities: means securities, whether stock or debt, issued by an SPFC to the issuer of the SPFC securities in exchange for some or all of the proceeds of the issuance of the SPFC securities. See Michigan Laws 500.4701
  • Securities: means those different types of debt obligations, equity, surplus certificates, surplus notes, funding agreements, derivatives, and other legal forms of financial instruments. See Michigan Laws 500.4701
  • 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
  •   SPFC securities and preferred securities issued pursuant to an insurance securitization are not, and shall not be considered to be, insurance or reinsurance contracts. An investor in these securities or a holder or issuer of these securities, by sole means of this investment, holding, or issuance, is not, and shall not be considered to be, transacting the business of insurance in this state. The underwriter’s placement agent or selling agent and their partners, directors, officers, members, managers, employees, agents, representatives, and advisors involved in an insurance securitization pursuant to this chapter shall not be considered to be insurance producers or brokers or conducting business as an insurance or reinsurance company or agency, brokerage, intermediary, advisory, or consulting business only by virtue of their activities in connection with them.