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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57406</law_id><section_number>38.2-1334.2</section_number><catch_line>Recovery</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="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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If an <span class="dictionary">order</span> for <span class="dictionary">liquidation</span> or rehabilitation of a domestic <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> has been entered, the receiver appointed under such <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall have a right to recover on behalf of the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> (i) from any parent corporation or holding <span class="dictionary">company</span> or <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">affiliate</span> who otherwise controlled the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span>, the amount of distributions (other than distributions of shares of the same class of stock) paid by the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> on its capital stock or (ii) any payment in the form of a bonus, termination <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> or extraordinary lump sum salary adjustment made by the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or its <span class="dictionary">subsidiary</span> or subsidiaries to a director, officer or employee, where the distribution or payment pursuant to (i) or (ii) is made at any time during the one year preceding the <span class="dictionary">petition</span> for <span class="dictionary">liquidation</span>, conservation or rehabilitation, as the case may be, subject to the limitations of subsections B, C and D of this section. <a id="paragraph-210349" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1334.2/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No such distribution shall be recoverable if the parent or <span class="dictionary">affiliate</span> shows that, when paid, such distribution was lawful and reasonable and that the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> did not know and could not reasonably have known that such distribution might adversely affect the ability of the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to fulfill its contractual obligations. <a id="paragraph-210350" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1334.2/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who was a parent corporation or holding <span class="dictionary">company</span> or a <span class="dictionary">person</span> who otherwise controlled the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or <span class="dictionary">affiliate</span> at the time such distributions were paid shall be liable up to the amount of distributions or payments under subsection A of this section. Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who otherwise controlled the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> at the time such distributions were declared shall be liable up to the amount of distributions he would have received if they had been paid immediately. If two or more <span class="dictionary">persons</span> are liable with respect to the same distributions, they shall be jointly and severally liable. <a id="paragraph-210351" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1334.2/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The maximum amount recoverable under this section shall be the amount needed in excess of all other available <span class="dictionary">assets</span> of the impaired or insolvent <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to pay its obligations and to reimburse any guaranty funds. <a id="paragraph-210352" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1334.2/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> To the extent that any <span class="dictionary">person</span> liable under subsection C of this section is insolvent or otherwise fails to pay claims due from it pursuant to such subsection, its parent corporation, holding <span class="dictionary">company</span>, or <span class="dictionary">person</span> who otherwise controlled it at the time the distribution was paid shall be jointly and severally liable for any resulting deficiency in the amount recovered from such parent corporation, holding <span class="dictionary">company</span>, or <span class="dictionary">person</span> who otherwise controlled it. <a id="paragraph-210353" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-1334.2/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1993, c. 158.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
