South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 46 - Reinsurance Intermediary Act
Section 38-46-40. Written contract required between intermediary-broker and insurer it represents; minimum terms contract must provide.

Transactions between a reinsurance intermediary-broker and the insurer it represents in that capacity only may be entered into pursuant to a written contract specifying the responsibilities of each party. The contract, at a minimum, must provide that:
(1) The insurer may terminate the reinsurance intermediary-broker's authority at any time.
(2) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall render accounts to the insurer accurately detailing all material transactions, including information necessary to support all commissions, charges, and other fees received by or owing to the reinsurance intermediary-broker, and remit all funds due to the insurer within thirty days of receipt.
(3) Funds collected for the insurer's account must be held by the reinsurance intermediary-broker in a fiduciary capacity in a bank which is a qualified United States financial institution.
(4) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall comply with Section 38-46-50.
(5) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall comply with the written standards established by the insurer for the cession or retrocession of all risks.
(6) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall disclose to the insurer a relationship with a reinsurer to which business will be ceded or retroceded.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 332, Section 1.

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 38 - Insurance

Chapter 46 - Reinsurance Intermediary Act

Section 38-46-10. Short title.

Section 38-46-20. Definitions.

Section 38-46-30. Licensing requirement for intermediary-broker and intermediary-manager; bond; requisites for licensing; fee; refusal of license; designation of person to receive process; attorneys exempt.

Section 38-46-40. Written contract required between intermediary-broker and insurer it represents; minimum terms contract must provide.

Section 38-46-50. Records of contracts of reinsurance to be maintained for at least ten years; access by insurer.

Section 38-46-60. Party engaged as intermediary-broker to be licensed; regulation of contacts between insurer and intermediary-broker with which it transacts business; annual filing of financial statements.

Section 38-46-70. Transactions between reinsurance intermediary-manager and reinsurer it represents regulated; written contract required; approval by reinsurer's directors and by director; terms contract must include.

Section 38-46-80. Acts prohibited of reinsurance intermediary-manager.

Section 38-46-90. Party engaged to act as intermediary-manager to be licensed; annual filing of financial statements; loss reserves; authority for retrocessional contracts or participation in reinsurance syndicates; notice of termination of contract...

Section 38-46-100. Reinsurance intermediary subject to examination; access to books, accounts and records.

Section 38-46-110. Violations; hearings; penalties; judicial review; rights of policy holders, claimants, creditors, and other third parties not affected.

Section 38-46-120. Department to promulgate regulations.