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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84641</law_id><section_number>38.2-3921</section_number><catch_line>Limitation on single risk to be assumed</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="39">Mutual Assessment Life, Accident and Sickness Insurers</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="5">Financial Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No single risk shall be assumed by a <span class="dictionary">mutual assessment life, accident and sickness insurer</span> if the risk exceeds fifteen percent of the <span class="dictionary">company</span>&#x2019;s total surplus to policyowners. Any risk or portion of any risk that has been reinsured in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Reinsurance" href="/38.2-3922/">38.2-3922</a> shall be deducted in determining the limitation of risk prescribed by this section. For the purposes of this section the amount of surplus to policyowners shall be determined on the basis of the last sworn statement of the insurer, or the last report of examination filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, whichever is more recent at the time the risk is assumed. <span class="dictionary">Mutual assessment life, accident and sickness insurers</span> licensed on July 1, 1985, shall conform to this limitation by July 1, 1990. Until July 1, 1986, the single risk limit, after deducting for reinsurance, shall be twenty-five percent of surplus to policyowners. Between July 1, 1986, and July 1, 1988, single risk limits, after deducting for reinsurance, shall be twenty percent of surplus to policyowners. This section shall not apply to <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> coverages defined in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Credit accident and sickness" href="/38.2-108/">38.2-108</a> and <a class="law" title="Accident and sickness" href="/38.2-109/">38.2-109</a> and <span class="dictionary">Medicare</span> supplement <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Medicare supplement policy; definition" href="/38.2-3600/">38.2-3600</a>.</p></section></text><history>1985, c. 400, &#xA7; 38.1-549.22; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
