Indiana § 27-1-40-5 - Certificate of authority for United States branch; requirements

§ 27-1-40-5. Certificate of authority for United States branch; requirements

Sec. 5. (a) The commissioner shall require a United States branch to do the following before granting the United States branch a certificate of authority to transact insurance business as described in section 3(1) of this chapter:

(1) Comply with this chapter and any other requirement of this title.

(2) Submit the following:

(A) A copy of the current charter and bylaws of the alien company that intends to transact business through the United States branch and any other documents determined by the commissioner to be necessary to provide evidence of the kinds of insurance business that the alien company is authorized to transact. Documents submitted under this clause must be attested to as accurate by the insurance supervisory official in the alien company's domiciliary jurisdiction.

(B) A full statement, subscribed and affirmed as true under penalty of perjury by two (2) officers or equivalent responsible representatives of the alien company in a manner prescribed by the commissioner, of the alien company's financial condition as of the close of the alien company's latest fiscal year, showing the alien company's:

(i) assets;

(ii) liabilities;

(iii) income disbursements;

(iv) business transacted; and

(v) other facts required to be shown in the alien company's annual statement reported to the insurance supervisory official in the alien company's domiciliary jurisdiction.

(C) An English translation, if necessary, of any document submitted under this subdivision.

(3) Submit to an examination of the affairs of the alien company that intends to transact business through the United States branch at the alien company's principal office in the United States. However, the commissioner may accept a report of the insurance supervisory official in the alien company's domiciliary jurisdiction in lieu of the examination required under this subdivision.

(b) The commissioner may at any time hire, at a United States branch's expense, any independent experts that the commissioner considers necessary to implement this chapter with respect to the United States branch.

As added by P.L.173-2007, SEC.20.