Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 61A — Life Insurance
Section 61A.281 — Investments; Subsidiaries.

Subdivision 1. Special purpose corporations. A domestic life insurance company may organize and hold, or acquire and hold, more than 50 percent of the capital stock of any corporation organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, or the Dominion of Canada or any province thereof, or if approved by the commissioner, elsewhere, which is one or more of the following: (1) a corporation providing investment advisory, management or sales services to an investment company or to an insurance company; or (2) a data processing or computer service corporation; or (3) a real property holding, developing, managing or leasing corporation; or (4) a mortgage loan corporation engaged in the business of making, originating, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring or investing in, and servicing or selling or otherwise disposing of loans secured by mortgages on real property; or (5) a corporation whose business is owning and managing or leasing personal property; or (6) a corporation other than a bank or an insurance company, whose business has been approved by the commissioner as complementary or supplementary to the business of a domestic life insurance company. Provided, however, that such percentage of stock may, with the approval of the commissioner, be 50 percent or less. The limits contained in the other investment sections of the insurance code shall not apply to such holdings, provided that the aggregate cost of the investments made under this subdivision shall not exceed five percent of the domestic life insurance company's admitted assets.
Subd. 2. General purpose corporations. A domestic life insurance company may organize and hold, or acquire and hold, more than 50 percent of the capital stock of any corporation organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, or the Dominion of Canada or any province thereof, or if approved by the commissioner, elsewhere, whether or not of the type of corporation enumerated in subdivision 1 or approved by the commissioner under subdivision 1. The limits contained in the other investment sections of Minnesota Statutes relating to insurance shall not apply to such holdings, provided that the aggregate cost of the investments made under authority of this subdivision shall not exceed ten percent of the capital and surplus of the domestic life insurance company.
Subd. 3. Rules. The commissioner may issue such reasonable rules as may be appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section.
Subd. 4. Other corporations acquired or organized, activities. A domestic life insurance company may organize or acquire a corporation domiciled in the United States and hold the capital stock thereof, provided that it shall continuously own more than 50 percent of such capital stock. The corporation so organized or acquired shall limit its activities to the investing of its assets in the same corporations, subject to the same ownership requirements, in which the insurance company may directly invest under subdivisions 1 and 2; provided that the sum of the total cost of the investments made by both it and the insurance company in corporations authorized under said subdivision 1 or said subdivision 2 shall not exceed the dollar amount which would have been applicable had the insurance company directly made such investments. The limits contained in the other investment sections of the insurance code shall not apply to any investment made by the insurance company under this subdivision, provided that the aggregate cost of the investments made by the insurance company hereunder and under said subdivisions 1 and 2 shall not exceed the sum of five percent of the insurance company's admitted assets and ten percent of the insurance company's capital and surplus.
Subd. 5. Corporations organized to hold investments. A domestic life insurance company may organize one or more corporations domiciled in the United States and hold the capital stock of them, provided that it shall continuously own all of the capital stock and that the corporations so organized shall limit their activities to acquiring and holding investments, other than under subdivisions 1 to 4, that a domestic life insurance company may acquire and hold. The investments of these corporations are subject to the same restrictions and requirements as apply to domestic life insurance companies, including the applicable percentage limitations for investments in individual properties and entities and limitations on the aggregate amount to be invested in any investment category. For the purposes of calculating the amount of an investment held by the life insurance company, investments in the same property, entity, or investment category that are owned by the company and all corporations qualifying under this subdivision must be aggregated.
1969 c 494 s 17; 1971 c 816 s 3-5; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1991 c 325 art 9 s 10

Structure Minnesota Statutes

Minnesota Statutes

Chapters 59A - 79A — Insurance

Chapter 61A — Life Insurance

Section 61A.01 — Life Insurance Company Defined.

Section 61A.011 — Interest On Unpaid Benefits.

Section 61A.02 — Forms Of Policy.

Section 61A.021 — Sale Of Life Insurance And Annuity As Single Policy Prohibited.

Section 61A.03 — Required Provisions; Life Insurance Policies.

Section 61A.031 — Suicide Provisions.

Section 61A.04 — Spendthrift Provisions.

Section 61A.05 — Life Policies To Contain Entire Contract.

Section 61A.06 — Aviation And War Risk Exclusion Permitted.

Section 61A.07 — Prohibited Provisions.

Section 61A.071 — Applications.

Section 61A.072 — Accelerated Benefits.

Section 61A.08 — Exceptions.

Section 61A.09 — Group Life Insurance.

Section 61A.091 — Employee Group Life Insurance Plans.

Section 61A.092 — Continuation Of Coverage For Life Insurance.

Section 61A.093 — Certificate Of Insurance.

Section 61A.10 — Extension Of Time For Payment Of Premiums.

Section 61A.11 — Misstatement, When Not To Invalidate Policy.

Section 61A.12 — Beneficiaries.

Section 61A.13 — Definitions.

Section 61A.14 — Companies Entitled To Issue Contracts; Accounts; Investments.

Section 61A.15 — Contract Provisions.

Section 61A.16 — Contract Provisions.

Section 61A.17 — Filing Of Contracts.

Section 61A.18 — Disapproval Of Contracts.

Section 61A.19 — Company Requirements.

Section 61A.20 — Rules.

Section 61A.21 — Application Of Other Laws.

Section 61A.22 — Contracts To Specify Benefits And Consideration.

Section 61A.23 — Provisions In Policies; Laws Of Other States.

Section 61A.24 — Standard Nonforfeiture Law For Life Insurance.

Section 61A.245 — Standard Nonforfeiture Law For Individual Deferred Annuities.

Section 61A.25 — Standard Valuation Law.

Section 61A.255 — Smoker And Nonsmoker Mortality Tables.

Section 61A.257 — Preferred Mortality Tables For Use In Determining Minimum Reserve Liabilities.

Section 61A.258 — Preneed Insurance Products; Minimum Mortality Standards For Reserves And Nonforfeiture Values.

Section 61A.27 — Contingency Reserve; Limitations.

Section 61A.276 — Funding Agreements.

Section 61A.28 — Domestic Companies, Investments.

Section 61A.281 — Investments; Subsidiaries.

Section 61A.282 — Investments In Name Of Company Or Nominee And Prohibitions.

Section 61A.283 — Admitted Assets.

Section 61A.284 — Investments; Capital Stock Of Other Insurance Companies.

Section 61A.29 — Foreign Investments.

Section 61A.30 — Joint Investments.

Section 61A.31 — Real Estate Holdings.

Section 61A.315 — Investments And Holdings; Limitations.

Section 61A.39 — Cooperative Life And Casualty Companies.

Section 61A.40 — Qualifications For License; Number Of Members.

Section 61A.41 — Reserve Fund; Reciprocal Provisions.

Section 61A.42 — Payments; Liens; Assessments; Policies To Be Labeled.

Section 61A.43 — Accumulations; Amendment To Articles Or Bylaws.

Section 61A.44 — Limitation On Expenses; Life Insurance.

Section 61A.45 — Limitation On Expenses; Companies With Reserve Deposits.

Section 61A.46 — Net Rates; Reserve Fund; Limitation Of Expenses.

Section 61A.47 — Reinsurance Or Consolidation.

Section 61A.48 — Change To Legal Reserve Or Level Premium Companies.

Section 61A.50 — Application.

Section 61A.51 — Insolvency.

Section 61A.52 — Reserve Required.

Section 61A.53 — Definitions.

Section 61A.54 — Exemptions.

Section 61A.55 — Duties Of Agents And Brokers.

Section 61A.56 — Duties Of All Insurers.

Section 61A.57 — Duties Of Insurers That Use Agents Or Brokers.

Section 61A.58 — Duties Of Insurers With Respect To Direct Response Sales.

Section 61A.59 — Enforcement; Effect Of Compliance.

Section 61A.60 — Required Replacement Notice And Form.

Section 61A.70 — Applicability And Scope.

Section 61A.705 — Definitions.

Section 61A.71 — Policies To Be Illustrated.

Section 61A.715 — General Rules And Prohibitions.

Section 61A.72 — Standards For Basic Illustrations.

Section 61A.725 — Standards For Supplemental Illustrations.

Section 61A.73 — Delivery Of Illustration And Record Retention.

Section 61A.735 — Annual Report; Notice To Policy Owners.

Section 61A.74 — Annual Certifications.

Section 61A.745 — Penalties.