182 sections in this chapter.
ORS 732.625 [1971 c.373 §4; 1993 c.447 §38; renumbered 732.552 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.626 Plan review and approval; general provisions. (1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall review a plan of conversion, reorganization or restructuring that is submitted to the director. Upon review, the director shall approve or conditionally approve the plan if the director finds all of the following
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(a) The applicable provisions of ORS 732.600 to 732.630, and other applicable provisions of law, have been fully met. (b) The plan protects the rights of policyholders. (c) The plan will be fair and equitable to the members, and the plan will not prejudice the interests of the me…
ORS 732.628 Limitations on ownership of shares in companies resulting from conversion, reorganization or restructuring. (1) For a period of three years following the effective date of a conversion, reorganization or restructuring, unless authorized by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, the directors, officers and employees of the converted stock insurer, any stock holding company, any mutual holding company or any subsidiary of a stock holding company or mutual holding company collectively shall not own, whether directly or indirectly, more than 25 percent of all outstanding shares issued by the converted stock insurer, any stock holding company or any subsidiary of a stock holding company or mutual holding company
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(2) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 732.600 to 732.630, neither a person nor a group of persons acting in concert may acquire, through public offering, exchange or subscription rights or otherwise, more than five percent of the shares of capital stock of the converted stock i…
ORS 732.630 Dissenters’ rights; action challenging validity of conversion, reorganization or restructuring. (1) Dissenters’ rights provided in ORS 60.551 to 60.594 are not available to any member, whether or not eligible, of a converting mutual insurer or a restructuring mutual holding company
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(2) An action challenging the validity of or arising from the conversion, reorganization or restructuring or other acts taken or proposed to be taken under the plan or ORS 732.600 to 732.630 must be commenced not later than the 60th day after the effective date of the conversion,…
ORS 732.635 [1971 c.373 §5; 1993 c.447 §39; renumbered 732.553 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.645 [1971 c.373 §6; 1993 c.447 §40; renumbered 732.554 in 1993]
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RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS, OWN RISK AND SOLVENCY ASSESSMENTS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ANNUAL DISCLOSURES (Own Risk and Solvency Assessments)
ORS 732.650 Definitions. As used in ORS 732.650 to 732.689
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(1) “Corporate governance annual disclosure” means a report that an insurer or insurance group files with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services in accordance with ORS 732.680 and 732.683. (2) “Insurance group” means insurers and affiliates within an ins…
ORS 732.653 Scope; requirements and guidance. (1) ORS 732.650 to 732.689 provide
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(a) Requirements for maintaining a risk management framework and completing an own risk and solvency assessment; and (b) Guidance and instructions for filing an own risk and solvency assessment summary report with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. …
ORS 732.655 [1971 c.373 §7; renumbered 732.558 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.656 Risk management framework. An insurer shall maintain a risk management framework to assist the insurer with identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing and reporting on the insurer’s material and relevant risks. The insurer satisfies this requirement if the insurance group of which the insurer is a member maintains a risk management framework applicable to the operations of the insurer. [2015 c.547 §4]
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Note: See note under 732.650.
ORS 732.659 Own risk and solvency assessment in accordance with manual. (1) Subject to the provisions of ORS 732.666, an insurer, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, shall use a process that is comparable to the process described in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual to regularly conduct an own risk and solvency assessment. The insurer, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, shall conduct the assessment at least annually but also at any time when significant changes occur in the risk profile of the insurer or insurance group
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(2) A change in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual takes effect on a date that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services specifies. [2015 c.547 §5] Note: See note under 732.650.
ORS 732.662 Own risk and solvency summary report; attestation. (1) At the request of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, and not more than once each year, an insurer shall submit to the director an own risk and solvency assessment summary report, or any combination of reports that together contain the information described in the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual, for the insurer or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member. If the insurer is a member of an insurance group and the director is the lead state director for the insurance group, the insurer shall submit the own risk and solvency assessment summary report or combination of reports without waiting for a request from the director
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(2) The insurer’s or insurance group’s chief risk officer, or another executive who has responsibility for overseeing the insurer’s or insurance group’s enterprise risk management process, shall attest in a signed statement in the own risk and solvency assessment summary report t…
ORS 732.665 [1971 c.373 §8; 1993 c.447 §42; renumbered 732.562 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.666 Exemptions; director’s requirements. (1) An insurer is exempt from the requirements of ORS 732.650 to 732.689 if
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(a) The insurer has annual direct written and unaffiliated assumed premium of less than $500 million, including international direct and assumed premium but excluding premiums reinsured with the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and National Flood Insurance Program; and (b) The …
ORS 732.669 Documentation and supporting information; director’s review. (1) Each insurer that must prepare an own risk and solvency assessment summary report shall prepare the report consistent with the current version of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual, subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of this section. The insurer shall maintain documentation and supporting information and make the documentation and supporting information available when the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services examines the insurer or at the director’s request
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(2) The director shall review an own risk and solvency assessment summary report, and make any additional requests for information, using procedures currently used in analyzing and examining multistate or global insurers and insurance groups. [2015 c.547 §8] Note: See note under …
ORS 732.672 Confidentiality; permissible disclosures; agreement with National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (1) All documents, materials or other information, including any own risk and solvency assessment summary report, that the Department of Consumer and Business Services possesses or controls, that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services obtained or created or that were otherwise disclosed to the director or any other person in the course of implementing ORS 732.650 to 732.689 are confidential, are subject to the provisions of ORS 705.137, 705.138, 705.139 and 731.312 and are not subject to disclosure under ORS 192.311 to 192.478
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(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the director may: (a) Use the documents, materials or other information in any regulatory or legal action the director brings as a part of the director’s official duties. (b) Share documents, materials or other information relat…
ORS 732.675 [1971 c.373 §9; 1993 c.447 §43; renumbered 732.564 in 1993]
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(Corporate Governance Annual Disclosures)
ORS 732.680 Submission of corporate governance annual disclosure; determination of lead state; signature and attestation; level of disclosure permitted; review; rules. (1) An insurer, or the insurance group of which an insurer is a member, each year in accordance with a schedule the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services establishes in consultation with the insurer or insurance group, shall submit to the director or to the chief insurance regulatory official in the state that the director determines is the lead state for the insurance group, a corporate governance annual disclosure that has the information described in ORS 732.683. The director shall determine the lead state in accordance with procedures that the director adopts by rule after considering procedures that are set forth in a financial analysis handbook that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has adopted. An insurer or a member of an insurance group that is not subject to the requirement under this subsection to submit a disclosure shall nevertheless submit the disclosure at the director’s request
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(2) The chief executive officer or corporate secretary of an insurer or insurance group shall sign the corporate governance annual disclosure and attest that to the best of the officer’s or secretary’s belief and knowledge the insurer or insurance group has implemented the corpor…
ORS 732.683 Discretion as to form and content of responses to inquiries in corporate governance annual disclosure; documentation and supporting information. (1) An insurer or insurance group has discretion as to the form and content of the insurer’s or insurance group’s responses to inquiries in a corporate governance annual disclosure so long as the responses provide information the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services requires to understand the insurer’s or insurance group’s corporate governance structure, policies and practices. The director may request additional information the director deems material and necessary to enable a clear understanding of the corporate governance policies and the reporting, information systems or controls that implement the policies
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(2) Notwithstanding the discretion permitted to an insurer or insurance group under subsection (1) of this section, the insurer or insurance group shall prepare the corporate governance annual disclosure in a manner consistent with rules the director adopts under ORS 732.680. The…
ORS 732.685 [1971 c.373 §10; 1993 c.447 §44; renumbered 732.566 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.686 Maintenance of confidentiality and privilege; permitted disclosures; waivers. (1)(a) Documents, materials or other information, including a corporate governance annual disclosure, that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services discloses to, or receives in a submission or disclosure from, another person or otherwise possesses, controls, obtains or creates in accordance with ORS 732.680 or 732.683 contains trade secrets, is proprietary, confidential and privileged and is not subject to
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(A) Disclosure under ORS 192.311 to 192.478; (B) Subpoena; or (C) Discovery and is not admissible in evidence in a private civil action. (b) The director may use documents, materials or other information described in paragraph (a) of this subsection in any regulatory or legal act…
ORS 732.689 Retention of consultant to assist director’s review of corporate governance annual disclosure; consultant’s qualifications and duties; agreement with consultant. (1)(a) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, at the expense of the insurer or insurance group from which the director receives a corporate governance annual disclosure, may retain a consultant, including an attorney, actuary, accountant or other expert, whenever the director reasonably requires assistance to review the corporate governance annual disclosure or related information and to evaluate the insurer’s or insurance group’s compliance with this section and ORS 732.680, 732.683 and 732.686
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(b) A consultant that the director retains under paragraph (a) of this subsection shall: (A) Act solely under the director’s supervision; (B) Serve only in an advisory capacity; and (C) Comply with the requirements for confidentiality set forth for the director in ORS 732.686. (2…
ORS 732.695 [1971 c.373 §11; 1993 c.447 §45; renumbered 732.568 in 1993]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 732.705 [1971 c.373 §12; 1993 c.447 §46; renumbered 732.572 in 1993]
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PRODUCER-CONTROLLED PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURERS
ORS 732.810 Definitions for ORS 732.810 to 732.814. As used in ORS 732.810 to 732.814
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(1) “Control” has the meaning given that term in ORS 732.548. (2) “Controlled insurer” means an authorized insurer that an insurance producer controls directly or indirectly. (3) “Controlling producer” means an insurance producer who directly or indirectly controls an insurer. (4…
ORS 732.811 Application of ORS 732.810 to 732.814. (1) ORS 732.810 to 732.814 apply to an insurer who is authorized in this state to transact property insurance or casualty insurance, or both, and is
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(a) Domiciled in this state; or (b) Domiciled in a state that is not accredited by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and does not have in effect a law that the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines to be substantially similar to…
ORS 732.812 Filing of financial statements; contract requirements; audit; reports to director. (1) A controlled insurer shall file quarterly financial statements with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services
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(2) Subsections (4) to (7) of this section apply to a controlled insurer and a controlling producer if, in any calendar year, the aggregate amount of gross written premium on insurance placed with a controlled insurer by a controlling producer is equal to or greater than five per…
ORS 732.813 Notice to prospective insured. A controlling producer, prior to the effective date of a policy, shall deliver written notice to the prospective insured disclosing the relationship between the producer and the controlled insurer. If the insurance is placed through a subproducer who is not a controlling producer, the controlling producer must retain in the records of the controlling producer a signed commitment from the subproducer that the subproducer is aware of the relationship between the insurer and the producer and that the subproducer has or will notify the insured of the relationship. [1993 c.447 §61]
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Note: See note under 732.810.
ORS 732.814 Authority of director over controlling producer and controlled insurer. (1) If the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services believes that the controlling producer or any other person has not complied with ORS 732.810 to 732.814 or any rule adopted or order issued thereunder, the director may order the controlling producer to cease placing insurance with the controlled insurer
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(2) If the director finds that the controlled insurer or any policyholder of the controlled insurer has suffered any loss or damage because the controlling producer or any other person has not complied with ORS 732.810 to 732.814 or any rule adopted or issued thereunder, the dire…
ORS 732.820 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact is enacted into law and entered into on behalf of this state with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows
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______________________________________________________________________________ ARTICLE I PURPOSE The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: (1) To promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and gro…
ORS 732.825 State member of Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services or a designee of the director shall serve as this state’s member of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission established under the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact set forth in ORS 732.820. [2011 c.520 §3]
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Note: See note under 732.820.
ORS 732.990 [Repealed by 1967 c.359 §704]
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