CO Code § 10-20-114 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 10 - Insurance|Article 20 - Life and Health Insurance Protection Association|§ 10-20-114. Miscellaneous Provisions

  Nothing in this article reduces the liability for unpaid assessments of the insureds of an impaired or insolvent insurer operating under a plan with assessment liability.    The association must keep records of all meetings of the board of directors to discuss the activities of the association in carrying out its powers and duties pursuant to section 10-20-108. Records of such meetings may be made public only upon the termination of a liquidation, rehabilitation, or conservation proceeding involving the impaired or insolvent insurer, upon the termination of the impairment or insolvency of the insurer, or upon the order of a court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in this subsection (2) limits the duty of the association to render a report of its activities under section 10-20-115.    For the purpose of carrying out its obligations under this article, the association is deemed a creditor of the impaired or insolvent insurer to the extent of assets attributable to covered policies reduced by any amounts to which the association is entitled as assignee or subrogee pursuant to section 10-20-108 (12). Assets of the impaired or insolvent insurer attributable to covered policies shall be used to continue all covered policies and pay all contractual obligations of the impaired or insolvent insurer as required by this article. “Assets attributable to covered policies”, as used in this subsection (3), are that proportion of the assets which the reserves that should have been established for such policies bear to the reserves that should have been established for all policies of insurance written by the impaired or insolvent insurer. (3.5) As a creditor of an impaired or insolvent insurer as established in this section and consistent with section 10-3-533 , the association and other similar associations are entitled to receive a disbursement of assets out of the marshaled assets from time to time as the assets become available to reimburse the association, as a credit against contractual obligations under this article. If the liquidator has not made an application to the receivership court for approval of a proposal to disburse assets out of marshaled assets to guaranty associations having obligations because of the insolvency within one hundred twenty days after a final determination of insolvency of an insurer by the receivership court, the association may apply to the receivership court for approval of its own proposal to disburse these assets.      Prior to the termination of any rehabilitation, conservation, or liquidation proceeding, the court may take into consideration the contributions of the respective parties, including the association, shareholders, and policyholders of the impaired or insolvent insurer, and any other party with a bona fide interest, in making an equitable distribution of the ownership rights of the insolvent insurer. In such a determination, consideration shall be given to the welfare of the policyholders of the continuing or successor insurer.    No distribution to stockholders, if any, of an impaired or insolvent insurer shall be made until and unless the total amount of valid claims of the association with interest thereon for funds expended in carrying out its powers and duties pursuant to section 10-20-108 with respect to the insurer have been fully recovered by the association.         If an order for rehabilitation or liquidation of an insurer domiciled in this state has been entered, the receiver appointed under such order shall have a right to recover on behalf of the insurer, from any affiliate that controlled it, the amount of distributions, other than stock dividends paid by the insurer on its capital stock, made at any time during the five years preceding the petition for liquidation subject to the limitations of paragraphs (b) to (d) of this subsection (5).    No such distribution shall be recoverable if the insurer shows that when paid the distribution was lawful and reasonable and that the insurer did not know, and could not reasonably have known, that the distribution might adversely affect the ability of the insurer to fulfill its contractual obligations.    Any person who was an affiliate which controlled the insurer at the time the distributions were paid shall be liable up to the amount of distributions such person received. Any person who was an affiliate which controlled the insurer at the time the distributions were declared shall be liable up to the amount of the distributions such person would have received if said distributions had been paid immediately. If two or more persons are liable with respect to the same distributions, they shall be jointly and severally liable.    The maximum amount recoverable under this subsection (5) is the amount needed, in excess of all other available assets of the impaired or insolvent insurer, to pay the contractual obligations of the impaired or insolvent insurer.    If any person liable pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection (5) is insolvent, all of its affiliates which controlled it at the time the distribution was paid shall be jointly and severally liable for any resulting deficiency in the amount recovered from the insolvent affiliate.       Nothing in this article shall be construed to make the state of Colorado in any way liable for the obligations of the life and health insurance protection association or the unpaid claims of impaired or insolvent life and health insurance companies.     History. Source: L. 91: Entire article added, p. 1278, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2013: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)(a), and (5)(d) amended and (3.5) added,(SB 13-032), ch. 34, p. 98, § 9, effective March 15.