Rhode Island § 27-52-2 - Reinsurance Intermediaries

§ 27-52-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Actuary” means a person who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries.

(2) “Controlling person” means any person, firm, association, or corporation who or that directly or indirectly has the power to direct or cause to be directed, the management, control, or activities of the reinsurance intermediary.

(3) “Insurer” means any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of the insurance law as an insurer.

(4) “Licensed producer” means an agent, broker, or reinsurance intermediary licensed pursuant to the applicable provisions of this title.

(5) “Qualified U.S. financial institutions,” for the purposes of this chapter, means an institution that:

(i) Is organized or in the case of a U.S. office of a foreign banking organization licensed, under the laws of the United States or any state of the United States;

(ii) Is regulated, supervised, and examined by U.S. federal or state authorities having regulatory authority over banks and trust companies; and

(iii) Has been determined by either the commissioner, or the securities valuation office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, to meet the standards of financial condition and standing that are considered necessary and appropriate to regulate the quality of financial institutions whose letters of credit will be acceptable to the commissioner.

(6) “Reinsurance intermediary” means a reinsurance intermediary broker or a reinsurance intermediary manager as these terms are defined in subsections (7) and (8) of this section, but shall not mean an intermediary in an insurance securitization or reinsurance transaction with a protected cell established by a protected cell company organized under the Protected Cell Companies Act, chapter 64 of this title, as those terms are defined or utilized in that act.

(7) “Reinsurance intermediary broker” (RB) means any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, firm, association, or corporation who or that solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of the insurer.

(8) “Reinsurance intermediary manager” (RM) means any person, firm, association, or corporation who or that has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for the reinsurer which is known as a RM, manager, or other similar term. Notwithstanding this definition, the following persons shall not be considered a RM, with respect to the reinsurer, for the purposes of this chapter:

(i) Any employee of the reinsurer;

(ii) A U.S. manager of the United States branch of an alien reinsurer;

(iii) An underwriting manager which, pursuant to contract, manages all the reinsurance operations of the reinsurer, is under common control with the reinsurer, subject to the Insurance Holding Company Systems Act, chapter 35 of this title, and whose compensation is not based on the volume of premiums written;

(iv) The manager of a group, association, pool, or organization of insurers who or that engage in joint underwriting or joint reinsurance and who or that are subject to examination by the insurance commissioner of the state in which the manager’s principal business office is located.

(9) “Reinsurer” means any person, firm, association, or corporation duly licensed in this state pursuant to the applicable provisions of this title as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance.

(10) “To be in violation” means that the reinsurance intermediary, insurer, or reinsurer for whom the reinsurance intermediary was acting failed to substantially comply with the provisions of this chapter.