As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Accident and health insurance" means contracts that incorporate morbidity risk and provide protection against economic loss resulting from accident, sickness, or medical conditions and as may be specified in the valuation manual.
"Appointed actuary" means a qualified actuary who is appointed in accordance with the valuation manual to prepare the actuarial opinion required in subsection B of § 38.2-1367.
"Deposit-type contract" means contracts that do not incorporate mortality or morbidity risks and as may be specified in the valuation manual.
"Insurance company" or "insurer" means an entity that (i) has written, issued, or reinsured life insurance contracts, accident and health insurance contracts, or deposit-type contracts in the Commonwealth and has at least one such policy in force or on claim or (ii) has written, issued, or reinsured life insurance contracts, accident and health insurance contracts, or deposit-type contracts in any state and is required to hold a certificate of authority to write life insurance, accident and health insurance, or deposit-type contracts in the Commonwealth.
"Life insurance" means contracts that incorporate mortality risk, including annuity and pure endowment contracts, and as may be specified in the valuation manual.
"NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
"Policyholder behavior" means any action a policyholder, contract holder or any other person with the right to elect options, such as a certificate holder, may take under a policy or contract subject to this article, including, but not limited to, lapse, withdrawal, transfer, deposit, premium payment, loan, annuitization, or benefit elections prescribed by the policy or contract but excluding events of mortality or morbidity that result in benefits prescribed in their essential aspects by the terms of the policy or contract.
"Principle-based valuation" means a reserve valuation that uses one or more methods or one or more assumptions determined by the insurer and is required to comply with § 38.2-1380 as specified in the valuation manual.
"Qualified actuary" means an individual who is qualified to sign the applicable statement of actuarial opinion in accordance with the American Academy of Actuaries qualification standards for actuaries signing such statements and who meets the requirements specified in the valuation manual.
"Tail risk" means a risk that occurs either where the frequency of low probability events is higher than expected under a normal probability distribution or where there are observed events of very significant size or magnitude.
"Valuation manual" means the manual of valuation instructions adopted by the NAIC as specified in this article or as subsequently amended.
2014, c. 571.
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