                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNEARNED PREMIUM RESERVE (§ 38.2-4610.1)

A. A domestic title insurance company shall establish and maintain an unearned
premium reserve computed in accordance with this section, and all sums
attributed to such reserve shall at all times and for all purposes be considered
and constitute unearned portions of the original premiums. This reserve shall be
reported as a liability of the title insurance company in its financial
statements.

B. The unearned premium reserve shall be maintained by the title insurance
company for the protection of holders of title insurance policies. Except as
provided in this section, assets equal in value to the unearned premium reserve
are not subject to distribution among creditors or stockholders of the title
insurance company until all claims of policyholders or claims under reinsurance
contracts have been paid in full, and all liability on the policies or
reinsurance contracts has been paid in full and discharged or lawfully
reinsured.

C. Except as provided in &#xA7; 38.2-4610.1:1, foreign or alien title insurance
company licensed to transact title insurance business in the Commonwealth shall
maintain at least the same unearned premium reserves on title insurance policies
issued on properties located in the Commonwealth as are required of domestic
title insurance companies, unless the laws of the jurisdiction of domicile of
the foreign or alien title insurance company require a higher amount.

D. The unearned premium reserve shall consist of:

   1. The amount of the unearned premium reserve on June 30, 1986; and

   2. A sum equal to $1.50 for each policy, contract or agreement of title
   insurance covering a single risk written after June 30, 1986, plus a sum equal
   to 12 1/2 cents of each $1,000 of net retained liability under each such
   policy, contract or agreement of title insurance on a single risk written
   after June 30, 1986.

E. Amounts placed in the unearned premium reserve in any year in accordance with
subdivision 2 of subsection D of this section shall be deducted in determining
the net profit of the title insurance company for that year.

F. A title insurance company shall release from the unearned premium reserve a
sum equal to ten percent of the amount added to the reserve during a calendar
year on July 1 of each of the five years following the year in which the sum was
added, and shall release from the unearned premium reserve a sum equal to 3 1/3
percent of the amount added to the reserve during that year on each succeeding
July 1 until the entire amount for that year has been released. The amount of
the unearned premium reserve maintained before July 1, 1986, shall be released
in accordance with the law in effect when the respective sums were reserved.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 404, § 38.1-730.1; 2008, c. 248.