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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58606</law_id><section_number>38.2-1314</section_number><catch_line>Loss or claim reserves</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-109</reference><reference>38.2-1316.1</reference><reference>38.2-4214</reference><reference>38.2-4509</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="13">Reports, Reserves and Examinations, Insurance Holding Companies, Reinsurance Intermediaries, and Managing General Agents</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Reserves</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Valuation reserves" href="/38.2-1311/">38.2-1311</a> and <a class="law" title="Loss or claim reserves" href="/38.2-4609/">38.2-4609</a>, each <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> licensed to transact the business of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> in this Commonwealth shall maintain reserves:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> In an amount estimated in the aggregate as being sufficient to provide for reported and unreported unpaid losses or claims arising on or prior to the date of any annual or other statement for which the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> may be liable; <a id="paragraph-214784" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1314/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In an amount estimated to provide for loss adjustment expenses; and <a id="paragraph-214785" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1314/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> For those classes of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> specified by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, any additional reserves for unpaid losses, policy obligations, or deficiencies in the unearned premium reserve as required by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. Each <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> authorized to write these classes of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> shall file with its annual statement, <span class="dictionary">schedules</span> of its experience for such <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> in the form the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> requires and shall calculate the reserves required by this paragraph in the manner prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-214786" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1314/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 38-229 through 38-232; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-173; 1982, c. 430; 1986, c. 562; 1994, c. 503.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
