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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56816</law_id><section_number>38.2-2606</section_number><catch_line>Reserves required</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-2602</reference><reference>38.2-2607</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="26">Home Protection Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">home protection company</span> licensed in this Commonwealth shall maintain reserves in an amount sufficient to provide for its liability to furnish appropriate indemnity, repairs, and replacement services under its issued and outstanding <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>. The reserve account shall be calculated according to sound actuarial principles, but shall equal at a minimum fifty percent of the premiums received from all <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> in force in this Commonwealth, net of applicable reinsurance and any amounts paid on account of liabilities incurred under the <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>. To receive credit for reinsurance on home protection <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>, the reinsurance <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or policy shall be issued by a solvent <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> licensed in this Commonwealth or any other <span class="dictionary">state</span> having standards of solvency at least equal to those required in this Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>1981, c. 530, &#xA7; 38.1-936; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
