382.195. 1. The following transactions involving a domestic insurer and any person in its holding company system may not be entered into unless the insurer has notified the director in writing of its intention to enter into such transaction at least thirty days prior thereto, or such shorter period as the director may permit, and the director has not disapproved it within such period:
(1) Sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or extensions of credit, guarantees, or investments if such transactions are equal to or exceed, with respect to nonlife insurers, the lesser of three percent of the insurer's admitted assets or twenty-five percent of surplus as regards policyholders, or with respect to life insurers, three percent of the insurer's admitted assets, each as of the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year;
(2) Loans or extensions of credit to any person who is not an affiliate, where the insurer makes such loans or extensions of credit with agreement or understanding that the proceeds of such transactions, in whole or in substantial part, are to be used to make loans or extensions of credit to, to purchase assets of, or to make investments in, any affiliate of the insurer making such loans or extensions of credit provided such transactions are equal to or exceed, with respect to nonlife insurers, the lesser of three percent of the insurer's admitted assets or twenty-five percent of surplus as regards policyholders, or with respect to life insurers, three percent of the insurer's admitted assets; each as of the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year;
(3) Reinsurance agreements or modifications thereto in which the reinsurance premium or a change in the insurer's liabilities equals or exceeds five percent of the insurer's surplus as regards policyholders, as of the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year, including those agreements which may require as consideration the transfer of assets from an insurer to a nonaffiliate, if an agreement or understanding exists between the insurer and nonaffiliate that any portion of such assets will be transferred to one or more affiliates of the insurer;
(4) All management agreements, service contracts and all cost-sharing arrangements; and
(5) Any material transactions, specified by regulation, which the director determines may adversely affect the interests of the insurer's policyholders. The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to authorize or permit any transactions which, in the case of an insurer not a member of the same holding company system, would be otherwise contrary to law.
2. A domestic insurer may not enter into transactions which are part of a plan or series of like transactions with persons within the holding company system if the purpose of those separate transactions is to avoid the statutory threshold amount and thus avoid the review that would occur otherwise. If the director determines that such separate transactions were entered into over any twelve-month period for such purpose, he may exercise his authority under section 382.265.
(L. 1992 H.B. 1574)
Missouri General Assembly