Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-90-130

  • Association: means a legal association of individuals, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, political subdivisions, or associations:

    (a) the member organizations of which collectively, or which does itself:

    (i) own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an association captive insurance company incorporated as a stock insurer or organized as a limited liability company; or

    (ii) have complete voting control over an association captive insurance company organized as a mutual insurer; or

    (b) the member organizations of which collectively constitute all of the subscribers of an association captive insurance company formed as a reciprocal insurer. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • Captive insurance company: means a pure captive insurance company, association captive insurance company, sponsored captive insurance company, special purpose captive insurance company, risk retention group, or industrial insured captive insurance company formed or licensed under this chapter. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • Director: means the Director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance or the director's designee. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • insurance: includes annuities. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Insurance company: means an "insurer". See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Member organization: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or association that belongs to an association. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • Parent: means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or individual that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote more than fifty percent of the outstanding voting interests of a captive insurance company. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • Pure captive insurance company: means a company that insures risks of its parent, affiliated companies, controlled unaffiliated business, or a combination thereof or cedes or assumes business from a risk pool for the purpose of risk sharing. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
A captive insurance company, including a captive insurance company organized as a reciprocal insurer under this chapter, may not join or contribute financially to a plan, pool, association, or guaranty or insolvency fund in this State, and a captive insurance company, or its insured or its parent or any affiliated company or any member organization of its association, or in the case of a captive insurance company organized as a reciprocal insurer, a subscriber of the company, may not receive a benefit from a plan, pool, association, or guaranty or insolvency fund for claims arising out of the operations of such captive insurance company. Subject to the approval of the director, participation by a captive insurance company, including a pure captive insurance company, in a pool for the purpose of risk sharing is not prohibited under this section.