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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62853</law_id><section_number>38.2-1101</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</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="11">Captive Insurers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Affiliated company</span>&#x201D; means (i) any company that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds, with power to vote, ten percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of a <span class="dictionary">pure captive insurer</span>, or (ii) any company of which ten percent or more of the voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held, with power to vote, by a <span class="dictionary">parent</span>, subsidiary, or <span class="dictionary">associated company</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Associated company</span>&#x201D; means any company in the same corporate system with a <span class="dictionary">pure captive insurer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Association captive insurer</span>&#x201D; means any domestic insurer transacting the business of insurance and reinsurance only on risks, hazards, and liabilities of the members of an <span class="dictionary">insurance association</span>.
		&#x201C;Captive insurer&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">pure captive insurer</span> or any <span class="dictionary">association captive insurer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Insurance association</span>&#x201D; means any group of individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, or governmental units or agencies whose members collectively own, control, or hold with power to vote all of the outstanding voting securities of an <span class="dictionary">association captive insurer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Parent</span>&#x201D; means a corporation, partnership, governmental unit or agency, or individual who directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds, with power to vote, more than fifty percent of the outstanding voting securities of a <span class="dictionary">pure captive insurer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Pure captive insurer</span>&#x201D; means any domestic insurer transacting the business of insurance and reinsurance only on risks, hazards, and liabilities of its <span class="dictionary">parent</span>, subsidiary companies of its <span class="dictionary">parent</span>, and associated and affiliated companies.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Subsidiary company</span>&#x201D; means any corporation of which fifty percent or more of the outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held, with power to vote, by a <span class="dictionary">parent</span> or by a company that is a subsidiary of the <span class="dictionary">parent</span>.</p></section></text><history>1980, c. 665, &#xA7; 38.1-917; 1981, c. 494; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
