(a)  The protected cell assets of any protected cell may not be charged with liabilities arising out of any other business the protected cell company may conduct. All contracts or other documentation reflecting protected cell liabilities shall clearly indicate that only the protected cell assets are available for the satisfaction of those protected cell liabilities.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-5

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Commissioner: means the director of the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Fully funded: means that, with respect to any exposure attributed to a protected cell, the fair value of the protected cell assets, on the date on which the insurance securitization is effected, equals or exceeds the maximum possible exposure attributable to the protected cell with respect to those exposures. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • General account: means the assets and liabilities of a protected cell company other than protected cell assets and protected cell liabilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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.
  • Protected cell: means an identified pool of assets and liabilities of a protected cell company segregated and insulated by means of this Act from the remainder of the protected cell company's assets and liabilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Protected cell account: means a specifically identified bank or custodial account established by a protected cell company for the purpose of segregating the protected cell assets of one protected cell from the protected cell assets of other protected cells and from the assets of the protected cell company's general account. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Protected cell assets: means all assets, contract rights, and general intangibles, identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Protected cell company: means a domestic insurer that has one or more protected cells. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Protected cell company insurance securitization: means the issuance of debt instruments, the proceeds from which support the exposures attributed to the protected cell, by a protected cell company, where repayment of principal and/or interest to investors pursuant to the transaction terms is contingent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event with respect to which the protected cell company is exposed to loss under insurance or reinsurance contracts it has issued. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3
  • Protected cell liabilities: means all liabilities and other obligations identified with and attributable to a specific protected cell of a protected cell company. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-64-3

(b)  Unless otherwise approved by the commissioner, assets attributed to a protected cell shall be valued at their fair value on the date of valuation.

(c)  The income, gains and losses, realized or unrealized, from protected cell assets and protected cell liabilities shall be credited to or charged against the protected cell without regard to other income, gains, or losses of the protected cell company, including income, gains, or losses of other protected cells. Amounts attributed to any protected cell and accumulations on the attributed amounts may be invested and reinvested without regard to any requirements or limitations imposed on investments of insurance companies domiciled in this state and the investments in any protected cell or cells may not be taken into account in applying the investment limitations otherwise applicable to the investments of the protected cell company, subject to any restrictions that may be imposed by the commissioner in accordance with § 27-64-12.

(d)  As permitted by the commissioner, a protected cell company may, in respect of any of its protected cells, engage in fully funded indemnity triggered and/or fully funded non-indemnity triggered insurance securitization to support in full the protected cell exposures attributable to that protected cell. A protected cell company insurance securitization that is non-indemnity triggered shall qualify as an insurance securitization under the terms of this chapter only after the commissioner, in accordance with the authority granted under § 27-64-12, adopts regulations addressing the methods of funding of the portion of the risk that is not indemnity based, accounting, disclosure, risk based capital treatment, and assessing risks associated with those securitizations. A protected cell company insurance securitization that is not fully funded, whether indemnity triggered or nonindemnity triggered is prohibited. Protected cell assets may be used to pay interest or other consideration on any outstanding debt or other obligation attributable to that protected cell, and nothing in this section shall be construed or interpreted to prevent a protected cell company from entering into a swap agreement or other transaction for the account of the protected cell that has the effect of guaranteeing that interest or other consideration.

(e)  In all protected cell company insurance securitizations, the contracts or other documentation effecting the transaction shall contain provisions identifying the protected cell to which the transaction will be attributed. In addition, the contracts or other documentation shall clearly disclose that the assets of that protected cell, and only those assets, are available to pay the obligations of that protected cell. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to the provisions of this chapter and any other applicable law, rule or regulation, the failure to include that language in the contracts or other documentation shall not be used as the sole basis by creditors, reinsurers or other claimants to circumvent the provisions of this chapter.

(f)  At the cessation of business of a protected cell, and in absence of any placement under administrative supervision or order of conservation, rehabilitation or liquidation attributable to that protected cell or the protected cell company, the protected cell company shall voluntarily close out the protected cell account in accordance with a plan approved by the commissioner.

(g)  A protected cell company shall only be authorized to attribute to a protected cell account the insurance obligations relating to the protected cell company’s general account. Under no circumstances shall a protected cell be authorized to issue insurance or reinsurance contracts directly to policyholders or reinsureds or have any obligation to the policyholders or reinsureds of the protected cell company’s general account.

History of Section.
P.L. 1999, ch. 22, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 156, § 1.