Iowa Code § 508.33A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 508 / Section 508.33A
Limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) (a) “Affiliated company” means a domestic life insurance company that is a directly or indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of the same parent.

(1) (b) “Parent” means a person as defined in section 521A.1 who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries wholly owns the organizing life insurance company.

(1) (c) “Risks” means risks associated with the life insurance policies and contracts written by the ceding domestic life insurance company or assumed by the ceding domestic life insurance company from an affiliated company, which were written by the affiliated company and for which the ceding domestic life insurance company holds direct statutory reserves for those policies and contracts as required by section 508.36.

(2) (a) A domestic life insurance company organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may organize a domestic limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company pursuant to the provisions of this chapter that is wholly owned by the organizing life insurance company. The limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company may reinsure risks of the organizing life insurance company, reinsure risks of affiliated companies, and access alternative forms of financing.

(2) (b) A limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company shall submit a plan of operation to the commissioner, and the commissioner shall approve the plan of operation with such amendments as the commissioner requires, before the limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company assumes any risks under a reinsurance contract. The plan of operation and any records, books, documents, reports, or other information that the commissioner requires a limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company to produce or disclose pursuant to rules adopted under subsection 6 or pursuant to an order of the commissioner shall be treated the same as information obtained by or disclosed to the commissioner pursuant to section 521A.6 and the commissioner shall have the powers enumerated in section 521A.6 as to that insurer.

(3) The organizing life insurance company may invest funds from its surplus in a limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company organized pursuant to this section.

(4) The organizing life insurance company’s officers and directors may serve as officers and directors of a limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company organized pursuant to this section.

(5) A limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company organized pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be licensed to transact the business of reinsurance for the purposes of section 521B.102, subsection 1, but may only reinsure risks of its organizing life insurance company and of affiliated companies. A limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company organized pursuant to this section may, upon approval of the commissioner, purchase reinsurance to cede the reinsurance risks assumed by the limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company.

(6) The commissioner shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A concerning limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies, including but not limited to the organization, plans of operation, capital requirements including risk-based capital requirements, reserves, authorized investments, reinsurance assumed, material transaction restrictions and requirements, dividends and distributions, operations, and the conditions, forms, and approval of financing of limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies organized pursuant to this section.

(7) Admitted assets of a limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company shall include assets approved by the commissioner which shall be deemed to be, and reported as, admitted assets of the limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company.

(8) The provisions of sections 508.5 and 511.8, section 521.2, subsection 4, sections 521A.4 and 521A.5, and chapter 521E shall not be applicable to a limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company organized pursuant to this section.

(9) A limited purpose subsidiary life insurance company shall not be organized pursuant to this section prior to the effective date of rules adopted by the commissioner regulating the organization and operation of limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies as provided in subsection 6.

2010 Acts, ch 1121, §9; 2013 Acts, ch 39, §9, 11; 2024 Acts, ch 1042, §1