Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 48.31B - Insurer Holding Company Act.
48.31B.060 - Order for liquidation or rehabilitation—Recovery of distributions or payments—Personal liability—Maximum amount recoverable.

RCW 48.31B.060
Order for liquidation or rehabilitation—Recovery of distributions or payments—Personal liability—Maximum amount recoverable.

(1) If an order for liquidation or rehabilitation of a domestic insurer has been entered, the receiver appointed under the order may recover on behalf of the insurer: (a) From a parent corporation or holding company or person or affiliate who otherwise controlled the insurer, the amount of distributions, other than distributions of shares of the same class of stock, paid by the insurer on its capital stock; or (b) a payment in the form of a bonus, termination settlement, or extraordinary lump sum salary adjustment made by the insurer or its subsidiary to a director, officer, or employee, where the distribution or payment under (a) or (b) of this subsection is made at any time during the one year before the petition for liquidation, conservation, or rehabilitation, as the case may be, subject to the limitations of subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section.
(2) No such distribution is recoverable if it is shown that when paid, the distribution was lawful and reasonable, and that the insurer did not know and could not reasonably have known that the distribution might adversely affect the ability of the insurer to fulfill its contractual obligations.
(3) A person who was a parent corporation or holding company or a person who otherwise controlled the insurer or affiliate when the distributions were paid is liable up to the amount of distributions or payments under subsection (1) of this section the person received. A person who controlled the insurer at the time the distributions were declared is liable up to the amount of distributions he or she would have received if they had been paid immediately. If two or more persons are liable with respect to the same distributions, they are jointly and severally liable.
(4) The maximum amount recoverable under this section is the amount needed in excess of all other available assets of the impaired or insolvent insurer to pay the contractual obligations of the impaired or insolvent insurer and to reimburse any guaranty funds.
(5) To the extent that a person liable under subsection (3) of this section is insolvent or otherwise fails to pay claims due from it under those provisions, its parent corporation or holding company or person who otherwise controlled it at the time the distribution was paid, is jointly and severally liable for a resulting deficiency in the amount recovered from the parent corporation or holding company or person who otherwise controlled it.

[ 1993 c 462 § 13.]

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Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 48 - Insurance

Chapter 48.31B - Insurer Holding Company Act.

48.31B.005 - Definitions.

48.31B.010 - Domestic insurer may acquire subsidiaries—Authorized investments—Insurer ceases to control subsidiary—Disposal of investment.

48.31B.015 - Control of insurer—Acquisition, merger, or exchange—Preacquisition notification—Divestment of controlling interest—Jurisdiction of courts.

48.31B.020 - Acquisition of insurer—Change in control—Definitions—Exemptions—Competition—Preacquisition notification—Violations—Penalties.

48.31B.025 - Registration with commissioner—Information required—Rule making—Disclaimer of affiliation—Annual enterprise risk report—Failure to file.

48.31B.030 - Insurer subject to registration—Standards for transactions within a holding company system—Extraordinary dividends or distributions—Insurer's surplus—Officers and directors.