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Insurance Law Regulation of Insurance Business
Insurance Law Regulation of Insurance Business
Reportorial Requirements
RESERVES
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Section 246 provides that the examination shall be done at least
once a year and whenever the Insurance Commissioner considers the
public interest demands and examination of the affairs, financial condition
and method of business of the insurance company.
Section 221 provides that “no insurance company other than life,
whether foreign or domestic, shall retain any risk on anyone subject of
insurance in an amount exceeding twenty percent of its net worth.
SECURITY DEPOSIT
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Self-Regulatory
Organizations
1. Reinsurance Business
2. Holding Companies
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Section 299. The prior written approval of the
Commissioner shall be required for the following transactions
between a controlled insurer and any person in its holding
company system: sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or
extensions of credit, or investments, involving five percent
(5%) or more of the insurer’s admitted assets as of the thirty-
first day of December next preceding.
3. Self-Regulatory Organizations
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a. Reinsurance Broker – Section 319 provides it is one who,
for compensation, not being a duly authorized agent,
employee or officer of an insurer in which any reinsurance is
effected, acts or aids in any manner in negotiating contracts
of reinsurance, or placing risks of effecting reinsurance, for
any insurance company authorized to do business in the
Philippines.
b. Non-life Company Underwriter – Section 327 provides
that it is person whose duty and responsibility it shall be to
select, evaluate and accept risks for, and to determine the
terms and conditions, including those pertaining to amounts
of retentions, under which such risks are to be accepted by
the company, unless such underwriter is registered as such
with the Commissioner.
1. Premium rates
2. Gains and losses from insurance operations
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4. Dividends on participating contracts, and