2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 38a - Insurance › Chapter 698 - Insurers › Section 38a-54. - Audited reports.

(a) Each domestic insurance company, domestic health care center or domestic fraternal benefit society doing business in this state shall have an annual audit conducted by an independent certified public accountant and shall annually file an audited financial report with the commissioner, and electronically to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on or before the first day of June for the year ending the preceding December thirty-first. An electronically filed true and complete report timely submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners does not exempt a domestic insurance company or a domestic health care center from timely filing a true and complete paper copy to the commissioner.
(b) Each foreign insurance company, foreign health care center or foreign fraternal benefit society doing business in this state shall have an annual audit conducted by an independent certified public accountant and shall annually file an audited financial report with the commissioner, and electronically to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, on or before June first for the year ending the preceding December thirty-first. An electronically filed true and complete report 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.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to: (1) Specify the scope of the examination required by this section; (2) specify the contents and scope of the annual audited financial report, provided such report shall include all incurred losses; (3) provide for the review of the controls; (4) provide for the availability to the commissioner of the workpapers of the certified public accountant; and (5) provide exemptions from compliance with the requirements of this section.
(P.A. 90-243, S. 168; P.A. 91-276, S. 3; P.A. 98-98, S. 4; P.A. 07-225, S. 2; P.A. 16-213, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 91-276 added a provision requiring the inclusion of all incurred losses in the annual audited financial report; P.A. 98-98 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “first day of June” for “thirtieth day of June” re the deadline for filing financial reports, and substituted “the preceding December thirty-first” for “the thirty-first day of December next preceding”; P.A. 07-225 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “On or after December 31, 1990,”, to limit its application to domestic insurance companies, to require electronic filing of audited financial reports with National Association of Insurance Commissioners and to require domestic insurance companies and health care centers to timely file a true and complete paper copy of such report with commissioner, inserted new Subsec. (b) requiring foreign insurance companies to conduct and file audited financial reports in same manner as specified in Subsec. (a), except for submission of paper copies to commissioner, and redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c); P.A. 16-213 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “domestic” re health care center and fraternal benefit society, and amended Subsec. (b) by adding “, foreign health care center” and “foreign” re fraternal benefit society, effective July 1, 2016.