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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66587</law_id><section_number>38.2-1322</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-374</reference><reference>38.2-1005.1:7</reference><reference>38.2-1317</reference><reference>38.2-1334.11</reference><reference>38.2-1334.3</reference><reference>38.2-1335</reference><reference>38.2-1339</reference><reference>38.2-1341</reference><reference>38.2-1342</reference><reference>38.2-1347</reference><reference>38.2-1351</reference><reference>38.2-1353</reference><reference>38.2-1354</reference><reference>38.2-1358</reference><reference>38.2-1361</reference><reference>38.2-1912</reference><reference>38.2-3407.12</reference><reference>38.2-4220</reference><reference>38.2-4319</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="5">Insurance Holding Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Acquiring person</span>&#x201D; means any person by whom or on whose behalf acquisition of control of any domestic <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> is to be effected.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Affiliate</span>&#x201D; of a specific person or a person &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">affiliated</span>&#x201D; with a specific person means a person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is <span class="dictionary">controlled by</span> or is under common control with the person specified.
		&#x201C;Control,&#x201D; including the terms &#x201C;controlling,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">controlled by</span>&#x201D; and &#x201C;under common control with,&#x201D; means direct or indirect <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, through (i) the ownership of voting securities, (ii) by <span class="dictionary">contract</span> other than a commercial <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for goods or nonmanagement services, or (iii) otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. Control shall be presumed to exist if any person directly or indirectly owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing collectively 10 percent or more of the voting securities of any other person. This <span class="dictionary">presumption</span> may be rebutted by a showing made in the manner provided by subsection K of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Registration of insurers that are members of holding company system" href="/38.2-1329/">38.2-1329</a> that control does not exist. After giving all interested <span class="dictionary">persons</span> notice and opportunity to be heard and making specific <span class="dictionary">findings</span> to support its determination, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may determine that control exists, notwithstanding the absence of a <span class="dictionary">presumption</span> to that effect.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Enterprise risk</span>&#x201D; means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more <span class="dictionary">affiliates</span> of an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or its <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span> as a whole, including, but not limited to, anything that would cause the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>&#x2019;s risk-based capital to fall into company action level as set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Company Action Level Event" href="/38.2-5503/">38.2-5503</a> or would cause the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to be in hazardous financial condition pursuant to 14VAC5-290-30 and 14VAC5-290-40 of the Virginia Administrative Code.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Group-wide supervisor</span>&#x201D; means the regulatory official authorized to engage in conducting and coordinating group-wide supervision activities who is determined or acknowledged by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Group-wide supervision of internationally active insurance groups" href="/38.2-1332.2/">38.2-1332.2</a> to have sufficient significant contacts with the <span class="dictionary">internationally active insurance group</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Insurance holding company system</span>&#x201D; means two or more <span class="dictionary">affiliated</span> <span class="dictionary">persons</span>, one or more of which is an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Insurer</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">insurance company</span> as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-100/">38.2-100</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Internationally active insurance group</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span> that includes an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> registered under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Registration of insurers that are members of holding company system" href="/38.2-1329/">38.2-1329</a> and that meets the following criteria: (i) premiums written in at least three countries; (ii) the percentage of gross premiums written outside the United <span class="dictionary">States</span> is at least 10 percent of the <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span>&#x2019;s total gross written premiums; and (iii) based on a three year rolling average, (a) the total <span class="dictionary">assets</span> of the <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span> are at least $50 billion or (b) the total gross written premiums of the <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span> are at least $10 billion.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Lead state commissioner</span>&#x201D; means the insurance commissioner, director, or superintendent of the lead state of the <span class="dictionary">insurance holding company system</span> as determined by the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Material transaction</span>&#x201D; means (i) any sale, purchase, exchange, loan or extension of credit, or investment; (ii) any dividend or distribution; (iii) any reinsurance treaty or risk-sharing arrangement; (iv) any management <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, service <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or cost-sharing arrangement; (v) any merger with or acquisition of control of any corporation; or (vi) any other transaction or agreement that the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> by <span class="dictionary">order</span>, rule or regulation determines to be material. Any series of transactions occurring within a 12-month period that are sufficiently similar in nature as to be reasonably construed as a single transaction and that in the aggregate exceed any minimum limits shall be deemed a <span class="dictionary">material transaction</span>.
		&#x201C;NAIC&#x201D; means the National Association of Insurance <span class="dictionary">Commissioners</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">NAIC Group Capital Calculation Instructions</span>&#x201D; means the group capital calculation instructions as adopted by the NAIC and as amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;Framework&#x201D; means an NAIC publication that includes a history of the NAIC&#x2019;s development of regulatory liquidity stress testing, the <span class="dictionary">scope criteria</span> applicable for a specific data year, and the liquidity stress test instructions and reporting templates for a specific data year, as adopted by the NAIC and amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Scope criteria</span>&#x201D; means the designated exposure bases along with minimum magnitudes thereof for the specified data year, used to establish a preliminary list of <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> considered scoped into the <span class="dictionary">NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework</span> for that data year.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">SEC</span>&#x201D; means the U.S. Securities and Exchange <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Subsidiary</span>&#x201D; of a specified person means an <span class="dictionary">affiliate</span> directly or indirectly <span class="dictionary">controlled by</span> that person through one or more intermediaries.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Ultimate controlling person</span>&#x201D; means the person that is not <span class="dictionary">controlled by</span> any other person.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Voting security</span>&#x201D; means any security that enables the owner to vote for the election of directors. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Voting security</span>&#x201D; includes any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a <span class="dictionary">voting security</span>.</p></section></text><history>1973, c. 505, &#xA7; 38.1-178.1; 1977, c. 414, &#xA7; 38.1-178.1:2; 1986, c. 562; 1992, c. 588; 1993, c. 158; 1998, c. 42; 2014, c. 309; 2019, c. 692; 2022, c. 113.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
