Company: AXS-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001214816-25-000056
Chunk: 171

Company: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 171
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 in all U.S. states except Hawaii. As a resident insurance producer in Arizona, AXIS Group Benefits LLC is subject to regulation and supervision by the Arizona Department of Insurance and is also subject to the regulation and supervision of the other states in which AXIS Group Benefits LLC transacts business.

AXIS ILS, Inc., incorporated in Delaware, is a marketing services company for insurance linked securities sponsored by the Company. AXIS Specialty Underwriters, Inc. was a Florida licensed reinsurance intermediary. Following the closure of our Florida office in 2021, AXIS Specialty Underwriters' coverholder agreement with Syndicate 1686 was terminated, effective December 31, 2021. All regulatory licenses in Florida for AXIS Specialty Underwriters, Inc. were terminated in 2022, however, the entity remained registered in Delaware and was renamed AXIS ILS, Inc. 

U.S. Authorizations of our Non-U.S. Insurance Subsidiaries

The insurance laws of each U.S. state regulate or prohibit the sale of insurance and reinsurance by insurers and reinsurers that are not admitted to do business within their jurisdictions or otherwise conduct business pursuant to exemptions. AXIS Specialty Europe is eligible to write surplus lines business throughout the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. AXIS Managing Agency Ltd. is eligible to use Lloyd's licenses to (i) write surplus lines business throughout the U.S. and in all U.S. territories, and (ii) write non-life reinsurance business throughout the U.S. and in all U.S. territories, except for accident and health reinsurance in New York. 

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In addition to the regulatory requirements imposed by the jurisdictions in which they are licensed, reinsurers’ business operations are affected by regulatory requirements in various states of the U.S. governing "credit for reinsurance" that are imposed on their ceding companies. In general, a ceding company obtaining reinsurance from a reinsurer that is licensed or approved by the jurisdiction or state in which the ceding company files statutory financial statements is permitted to reflect in its statutory financial statements a credit in an aggregate amount equal to the ceding company’s liability for unearned premiums (which is that portion of premiums written which applies to the unexpired portion of the policy period), loss reserves and loss expense reserves ceded to the reinsurer. The great majority of states, however, permit a credit to statutory surplus to be recognized resulting from reinsurance obtained from a non-licensed or non-accredited reinsurer to the extent that the reinsurer provides a letter of credit, trust