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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68854</law_id><section_number>38.2-1037</section_number><catch_line>Exceptions for licensed and operating insurers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Organization, Admission and Licensing of Insurers</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Licensing of Insurers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter with respect to minimum required capital and surplus, any <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> which, on June 30, 1991, was licensed to write and was writing any class of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> in this Commonwealth may continue to write that class of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> under the appropriate license from the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, until July 1, 1994, if it maintains at all times (i) the minimum capital and surplus if a stock <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>, (ii) the minimum surplus if a mutual <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>, and (iii) the minimum trusteed surplus if an alien <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>, required of the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> as of June 30, 1991. <a id="paragraph-249239" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1037/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> not licensed to write a class of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> in this Commonwealth on June 30, 1991, shall meet all the capital surplus and trusteed surplus requirements of this article before it obtains a license to write that class of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>. <a id="paragraph-249240" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1037/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-97; 1966, c. 580; 1977, c. 322; 1978, c. 20; 1986, c. 562; 1987, c. 520; 1991, c. 261.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
