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You are here: Home / Reinsurance Transactions / Accounting for Reinsurance / NAIC APPROVES SEVEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AS QUALIFIED JURISDICTIONS FOR REINSURANCE COLLATERAL REDUCTION REQUIREMENTS AND ANNOUNCES ACTION ON INSURANCE PRIORITIES

NAIC APPROVES SEVEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AS QUALIFIED JURISDICTIONS FOR REINSURANCE COLLATERAL REDUCTION REQUIREMENTS AND ANNOUNCES ACTION ON INSURANCE PRIORITIES

December 22, 2014 by Carlton Fields

At its December 11, 2014 meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) approved seven foreign countries as Qualified Jurisdictions so that reinsurers licensed and domiciled in those jurisdictions will be eligible for reinsurance collateral reduction requirements under NAIC’s Credit for Reinsurance Model Law. Four of those jurisdictions – Bermuda, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, were previously on NAIC’s list of Conditional Qualified Jurisdictions. Effective January 1, 2015, these four, along with Japan, Ireland and France, will be full Qualified Jurisdictions subject to a 5-year term, after which they will be re-evaluated under the provisions of the Qualified Jurisdiction Process.

NAIC also adopted the Revised Insurance Holding System Regulatory Act and Actuarial Guideline 48. The Act, in part, updates the model to clarify the group-wide supervisor for a defined class of internationally active insurance groups. AG 48 establishes national standards regarding certain captive reinsurance transactions and includes regulation of the types of assets held in a backing insurer’s statutory reserve. AG 48 takes effect in 2015. NAIC issued a news release on its actions, which can be found here.

This post written by Renee Schimkat.

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