South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 46 - Reinsurance Intermediary Act
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.

(A) An insurer may not engage the services of a person, a firm, an association, or a corporation to act as a reinsurance intermediary-broker on its behalf unless the person is licensed as required by Section 38-46-30.
(B) An insurer may not employ an individual who is employed by a reinsurance intermediary-broker with which it transacts business unless the reinsurance intermediary-broker is under common control with the insurer and subject to the Insurance Holding Company Regulatory Act.
(C) The insurer annually shall file with the department not later than June first a copy of the statements of the financial condition of each reinsurance intermediary-broker which the insurer has engaged. The statements must be prepared by an independent certified accountant in a form acceptable to the director or his designee.
HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 332, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 675; 2019 Act No. 6 (S.360), Section 7.A, eff July 1, 2019.
Effect of Amendment
2019 Act No. 6, Section 7.A, in (C), in the first sentence, substituted "not later than June" for "not later than March".

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.