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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66267</law_id><section_number>38.2-1334.3</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>38.2-1005.1:7</reference><reference>38.2-1339</reference><reference>38.2-1342</reference><reference>38.2-4319</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="5.1">Risk Management Framework; Own Risk and Solvency Assessments</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Insurance group</span>&#x201D; means those <span class="dictionary">insurers</span> and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-1322/">38.2-1322</a>.
		&#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>, except that &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">insurer</span>&#x201D; shall not include agencies, authorities, or instrumentalities of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span>, its <span class="dictionary">possessions</span> and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or a <span class="dictionary">state</span> or political subdivision of a <span class="dictionary">state</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">NAIC</span>&#x201D; means the National Association of Insurance <span class="dictionary">Commissioners</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">ORSA Guidance Manual</span>&#x201D; means the current version of the <span class="dictionary">NAIC</span> <span class="dictionary">Own Risk and Solvency Assessment</span> (ORSA) Guidance Manual developed and adopted by the <span class="dictionary">NAIC</span> and as amended from time to time. A change in the <span class="dictionary">ORSA Guidance Manual</span> shall be effective on the January 1 following the calendar year in which the changes have been adopted by the <span class="dictionary">NAIC</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">ORSA summary report</span>&#x201D; means a confidential high-level summary of an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or <span class="dictionary">insurance group</span>&#x2019;s ORSA.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Own Risk and Solvency Assessment</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;ORSA&#x201D; means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or <span class="dictionary">insurance group</span>, conducted by that <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or <span class="dictionary">insurance group</span>, of the <span class="dictionary">material</span> and relevant risks associated with the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> or <span class="dictionary">insurance group</span>&#x2019;s current business plan, and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks.</p></section></text><history>2014, c. 248.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
