(A) A captive insurance company may not be required to make an annual report except as provided in this chapter. The director has the authority to waive or grant an extension to the requirements of this section.

(B)(1) A captive insurance company shall submit annually to the director a report of its financial condition, verified by oath of two of its executive officers. The report must be submitted no later than March first for risk retention groups and no later than July first for all other captive insurance companies.

Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-90-70

  • Alien captive insurance company: means an insurance company formed to write insurance business for its parents and affiliates and licensed pursuant to the laws of an alien jurisdiction which imposes statutory or regulatory standards in a form acceptable to the director on companies transacting the business of insurance in such jurisdiction. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • 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
  • Branch captive insurance company: means an alien captive insurance company licensed by the director to transact the business of insurance in this State through a business unit with a principal place of business in this State. 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
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Industrial insured: means an insured as defined in § 38-25-150(8). See South Carolina Code 38-90-10
  • Industrial insured group: means a group that meets either of the following criteria:

    (a) a group of industrial insureds that collectively:

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

    (ii) have complete voting control over an industrial insured captive insurance company incorporated as a mutual insurer; or

    (b) a risk retention group. 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
  • 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.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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
  • Premium: means payment given in consideration of a contract of insurance. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Risk retention group: means a captive insurance company formed under the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, 15 U. See South Carolina Code 38-90-10

(2) A captive insurance company, other than a risk retention group, may make a written application to file the annual report on a fiscal year end that is consistent with the parent company’s fiscal year end. If an alternative date is granted, the:

(a) income statement and premium schedule of the annual report must be filed before March first of each year for each calendar year-end, verified by oath of two of its executive officers; and

(b) entire annual report must be filed no more than sixty days after the fiscal year end, except as otherwise approved by the director.

(C) In addition to the annual report, a branch captive insurance company shall file with the director a copy of all reports and statements required to be filed under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the alien captive insurance company is formed, verified by oath of two of its executive officers. The reports and statements of the alien captive insurance company must be submitted within sixty days after the fiscal year end of the alien captive insurance company except as otherwise approved by the director. If the director finds that the reports and statements filed by the alien captive insurance company in its domiciliary jurisdiction provides adequate information concerning the financial condition of the alien captive insurance company to satisfy the laws of this State, the director may waive the requirement for completion of the Captive Annual Report for business written in the alien jurisdiction.

(D) Except as provided in § 38-90-40, a captive insurance company shall report using generally accepted accounting principles, unless the director approves the use of statutory accounting principles, with useful or necessary modifications or adaptations required or approved or accepted by the director for the type of insurance and kinds of insurers to be reported upon, and as supplemented by additional information required by the director. Except as otherwise provided, an association captive insurance company, an industrial insured group, and a risk retention group shall file its report in the form and manner required by § 38-13-80, and each industrial insured group and each risk retention group shall comply with the requirements provided for in § 38-13-85. The director by regulation shall prescribe the forms in which pure captive insurance companies and industrial insured captive insurance companies shall report. Information submitted pursuant to this section is confidential as provided in § 38-90-35, except for reports submitted by a risk retention group.