Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 3581

  • assessment: means a confidential, internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an insurer or insurance group and conducted by that insurer or insurance group, of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer's or insurance group's current business plan and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks. See
  • Insurance group: means those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in subdivision 3681(5) of this title. See
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
  • Summary Report: means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance group's ORSA. See

§ 3581. Purpose; scope; intent

(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide the requirements for maintaining a risk management framework and completing an Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) and provide guidance and instructions for filing an ORSA Summary Report with the Commissioner.

(b) The requirements of this subchapter shall apply to all insurers domiciled in this State unless exempt under section 3586 of this subchapter.

(c) The General Assembly finds and declares that the ORSA Summary Report will contain confidential and sensitive information related to an insurer’s or insurance group‘s identification of risks material and relevant to the insurer or insurance group filing the report. This information will include proprietary and trade secret information that has the potential for harm and competitive disadvantage to the insurer or insurance group if the information is made public. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the summary report required under this subchapter shall be a confidential document filed with the Commissioner, that it shall be shared only as stated in this subchapter and to assist the Commissioner in the performance of his or her duties, and that in no event shall the summary report be subject to public inspection and copying under the Public Records Act. (Added 2013, No. 29, § 44, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.)