A. To protect against the effect of adverse economic cycles, each insurer transacting the business of mortgage guaranty insurance in this Commonwealth shall establish and maintain a contingency reserve equal to fifty percent of its earned premium.
B. Allocations to the contingency reserve shall be maintained for 120 months. That portion of the contingency reserve that has been maintained for more than 120 months shall be released and shall no longer constitute part of the contingency reserve and shall be allocated to surplus to policyholders.
C. Upon approval by the Commission, the contingency reserve shall be available for loss payments only when the incurred losses in any one twelve-month period, less any amounts already released from the contingency reserve during that period, exceed thirty-five percent of the corresponding earned premium.
D. In the event of release of the contingency reserve for payment of losses, the contributions required by subsection A of this section shall be treated on a first-in-first-out basis.
E. Whenever the laws of any other state require a greater unearned premium reserve than that set forth in § 38.2-1312, the mortgage guaranty insurance contingency reserve of mortgage guaranty insurers organized under the laws of that state may be an amount that, when added to such unearned premium reserve, will result in a reserve equal to the sum of the unearned premium reserve required by § 38.2-1312 and the contingency reserve required by this section.
F. The authority of the Commission under § 38.2-223 to issue rules and regulations includes the authority to require that a greater reserve be established for mortgage guaranty insurance on liens other than first liens.
1973, c. 250, §§ 38.1-173.1, 38.1-173.2; 1981, c. 209; 1986, c. 562; 1989, c. 236; 2000, c. 46.
Structure Code of Virginia
§ 38.2-1300. Annual statements
§ 38.2-1301. Additional reports
§ 38.2-1301.1. Material transaction disclosures
§ 38.2-1302. Extension of filing time
§ 38.2-1303. Printed forms to be filed by insurers; certificates to domestic insurers
§ 38.2-1304. False statements, reports, etc., deemed a Class 5 felony
§ 38.2-1305. Voluntary reports
§ 38.2-1306. Reports to be open to public inspection
§ 38.2-1306.1. Insurance companies' analyses confidential
§ 38.2-1306.2. Valuation of investments and other assets
§ 38.2-1306.3. Nonadmitted assets
§ 38.2-1311. Valuation reserves
§ 38.2-1312. Unearned premium reserves
§ 38.2-1314. Loss or claim reserves
§ 38.2-1315. Mortgage guaranty insurance contingency reserve
§ 38.2-1315.1. Actuarial statements of opinion, reports, memoranda, and summaries
§ 38.2-1316.2. Credit allowed a domestic ceding insurer
§ 38.2-1316.4. Credit allowed any ceding insurer
§ 38.2-1316.7. Rules and regulations
§ 38.2-1316.8. Reinsurance agreements affected
§ 38.2-1317. Examinations; when authorized or required
§ 38.2-1317.1. Examinations; nature and scope
§ 38.2-1317.2. Market analyses confidential
§ 38.2-1318. Examinations; how conducted
§ 38.2-1319. Expense of examination
§ 38.2-1320. Examination reports; general description
§ 38.2-1320.1. Submission of examination report
§ 38.2-1320.2. Filing of report on examination
§ 38.2-1320.3. Examination reports; orders and procedures
§ 38.2-1320.4. Publication and use of examination reports
§ 38.2-1320.5. Confidentiality of ancillary information
§ 38.2-1321. Records of examination preserved
§ 38.2-1321.1. Immunity from liability
§ 38.2-1323. Acquisition of control of insurers
§ 38.2-1324. Contents of application
§ 38.2-1325. Alternate filing materials
§ 38.2-1326. Approval by Commission
§ 38.2-1327. Time for hearing; order of Commission
§ 38.2-1329. Registration of insurers that are members of holding company system
§ 38.2-1330.1. Dividends and other distributions
§ 38.2-1332.1. Supervisory colleges
§ 38.2-1332.2. Group-wide supervision of internationally active insurance groups
§ 38.2-1333. Confidential treatment of information and documents
§ 38.2-1334. Revocation, suspension, or nonrenewal of insurer's license
§ 38.2-1334.1. Voting of securities, injunctions, and sequestration of voting securities
§ 38.2-1334.2:1. Rules and regulations
§ 38.2-1334.2:3. Statutory construction and relationship to other laws
§ 38.2-1334.4. Risk management framework
§ 38.2-1334.5. ORSA requirement
§ 38.2-1334.6. ORSA summary report
§ 38.2-1334.7. Scope of article; exemption
§ 38.2-1334.8. Contents of ORSA summary report
§ 38.2-1334.9. Confidentiality
§ 38.2-1334.12. Disclosure requirement
§ 38.2-1334.13. Contents of Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure
§ 38.2-1334.14. Confidentiality
§ 38.2-1334.15. NAIC and third-party consultants
§ 38.2-1334.16. Rules and regulations
§ 38.2-1336. Subsidiaries of insurers
§ 38.2-1337. Disclaimer of control
§ 38.2-1340. Revocation, suspension, or nonrenewal of insurer's license
§ 38.2-1343. Minimum standards
§ 38.2-1348. License requirements
§ 38.2-1349. Required contract provisions; reinsurance intermediary brokers
§ 38.2-1350. Books and records; reinsurance intermediary brokers
§ 38.2-1351. Duties of insurers utilizing the services of a reinsurance intermediary broker
§ 38.2-1352. Required contract provisions; reinsurance intermediary managers
§ 38.2-1354. Duties of reinsurers utilizing the services of a reinsurance intermediary manager
§ 38.2-1355. Examination authority
§ 38.2-1357. Requirement to report to Commission
§ 38.2-1360. Required contract provisions
§ 38.2-1361. Duties of insurers utilizing managing general agents
§ 38.2-1362. Examination authority
§ 38.2-1364. Requirement to report to Commission
§ 38.2-1366. Reserve valuation
§ 38.2-1367. Actuarial opinion of reserves
§ 38.2-1368. Minimum valuation standard for policies issued prior to certain dates
§ 38.2-1369. Computation of minimum standard
§ 38.2-1370. Computation of minimum standard for annuities
§ 38.2-1371. Computation of minimum standard by calendar year of issue
§ 38.2-1372. Reserve valuation method; life insurance and endowment benefits
§ 38.2-1373. Reserve valuation method; annuity and pure endowment benefits
§ 38.2-1375. Optional reserve calculation
§ 38.2-1376. Reserve calculation; valuation net premium exceeding the gross premium charged
§ 38.2-1377. Reserve calculation; indeterminate premium plans
§ 38.2-1378. Minimum standard for accident and health insurance contracts
§ 38.2-1380. Requirements of a principle-based valuation
§ 38.2-1383. Single state exemption
§ 38.2-1384. Assessment against insurers whose policies are valued