Sec. 38a-53. (Formerly Sec. 38-24). Requirements re filing of annual reports and financial statements. Late filing fee. Due date extensions.
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(a)(1) Each domestic insurance company or domestic health care center shall, annually, on or before the first day of March, submit to the commissioner, by electronically filing with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a true and complete report, signed and sworn to by its president or a vice president, and secretary or an assistant secretary, of its financial condition on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, prepared in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners annual statement instructions handbook and following those accounting procedures and practices prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners accounting practices and procedures manual, subject to any deviations in form and detail as may be prescribed by the commissioner. An electronically filed report in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners shall be deemed to have been submitted to the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2)Each accredited reinsurer, as defined in subdivision
(1)of subsection
(c)of section 38a-85 , and assuming insurance company, as provided in section 38a-85 , shall file an annual report in accordance with the provisions of section 38a-85 .
(b)Each foreign insurance company or foreign health care center doing business in this state shall, annually, on or before the first day of March, submit to the commissioner, by electronically filing with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a true and complete report, signed and sworn to by its president or a vice president, and secretary or an assistant secretary, of its financial condition on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, prepared in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners annual statement instructions handbook and following those accounting procedures and practices prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners accounting practices and procedures manual, subject to any deviations in form and detail as may be prescribed by the commissioner. An electronically filed report in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely submitted to the National Association of Commissioners shall be deemed to have been submitted to the commissioner in accordance with this section.
(c)In addition to such annual report, the commissioner, when the commissioner deems it necessary, may require any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state to file financial statements on a quarterly basis. An electronically filed true and complete report filed in accordance with section 38a-53a that is timely filed with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners shall be deemed to have been submitted to the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(d)In addition to such annual report and the quarterly report required under subsection
(c)of this section, the commissioner, whenever the commissioner determines that more frequent reports are required because of certain factors or trends affecting companies writing a particular class or classes of business or because of changes in the company's management or financial or operating condition, may require any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state to file financial statements on other than an annual or quarterly basis.
(e)Any insurance company or health care center doing business in this state that fails to file any report or statement required under this section shall pay a late filing fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars per day for each day from the due date of such report or statement to the date of filing. The commissioner may extend the due date of any report or statement required under this section
(1)if the insurance company or health care center cannot file such report or statement because the governor of such company's or center's state of domicile has proclaimed a state of emergency in such state and such state of emergency impairs the company's or center's ability to file the report or statement,
(2)if the insurance regulatory official of the state of domicile of a foreign insurance company has permitted such company to file such report or statement late, or
(3)for a domestic insurance company or a domestic health care center, for good cause shown.
(f)Each insurance company or health care center doing business in this state shall include in all reports required to be filed with the commissioner under this section a certification by an actuary or reserve specialist of all reserve liabilities prepared in accordance with regulations that shall be adopted by the commissioner in accordance with chapter 54. The regulations shall:
(1)Specify the contents and scope of the certification;
(2)provide for the availability to the commissioner of the workpapers of the actuary or loss reserve specialist; and
(3)provide for granting companies or centers exemptions from compliance with the requirements of this subsection. The commissioner shall maintain, as confidential, all workpapers of the actuary or loss reserve specialist and the actuarial report and actuarial opinion summary provided in support of the certification. Such workpapers, reports and summaries shall not be subject to subpoena or disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200 .