Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:12

  • Net retained liability: means the total liability retained by a title insurance company under any policy or contract for insurance, or under a single insurance risk as defined in or computed in accordance with paragraph IX of this section, after the purchase of reinsurance. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:2
  • Premium: for title insurance is the amount charged by a title insurance company, agent for a title insurance company, or either of them, to an insured or an applicant for insurance for the assumption by the title insurance company of the risk created by the issuance of the title insurance policy. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:2
  • Single insurance risk: means the insured amount of any policy or contract of title insurance issued by a title insurance company unless 2 or more policies or contracts are simultaneously issued on different estates in identical real property, in which event, it means the sum of the insured amounts of all such policies or contracts. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:2
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Title insurance: means insuring, guaranteeing, or indemnifying owners of real property or others interested therein against loss or damage suffered by reason of liens, encumbrances upon, defects in, or the unmarketability of the title to said property. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:2
  • Title insurance company: means any domestic company organized under the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of insuring titles to real property; any title insurance company organized under the laws of another state or foreign nation and licensed to insure titles to real estate within this state; and any domestic, foreign, or alien company having the power and authorized to insure titles to real estate within this state and which meets the requirements of this chapter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 416-A:2
The net retained liability of any title insurance company under any single insurance risk as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 416-A:2, IX and X, shall not exceed 50 percent of the net amount remaining after deducting from the sum of its capital, surplus, unearned premium reserve, and voluntary reserves, the value, if any, assigned in such summation to its title plant, all as shown in its most recent report on file with the commissioner. The same limitation shall apply to any secondary risk assumed by means of reinsurance or to any policy of excess coinsurance except, whenever the primary retained liability of a ceding company shall equal or exceed 10 percent of the single insurance risk liability, the net retained or assumed liability limit of this section may be increased by an additional $250,000, but in no event above 100 percent of the net amount remaining after deducting from the sum of its capital and surplus, the value, if any, assigned in such summation to its title plant, all as shown by its most recent report on file with the commissioner. Nothing in this section is intended to limit the amount of a single insurance risk, as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 416-A:2, IX that may be written by a title insurance company; but it shall cede to one or more other title reinsurers on or before the effective date of such writing, such portion or portions of the said risk as shall be sufficient to bring its net retained liability thereunder within the limits prescribed in this section; and each such cession of risk shall be within the limits of this section as applied to the sum of the capital, surplus, unearned premium reserve, and voluntary reserves, less the value, if any, assigned in such summation to the title plants of the reinsuring company, as shown by its most recent report on file with the supervisory agency in the state of its domicile.