2023 Montana Code Annotated › Title 33. Insurance and Insurance Companies › Chapter 2. Regulation of Insurance Companies › Part 6. Deposits › 33-2-612. Duration and release of deposit

33-2-612. Duration and release of deposit.
(1) Every deposit made in this state by an insurer pursuant to this code, including assets and securities held in another state under custodial arrangements permitted by 33-2-604(2), must be held as long as there is outstanding any liability of the insurer as to which the deposit was required, or if a deposit was required under the retaliatory law, 33-2-709, the deposit must be held for as long as the basis of the retaliation exists.
(2) Upon the request of a domestic insurer, the commissioner shall return to the insurer the whole or any portion of the assets and securities of the insurer held on deposit when the commissioner is satisfied that the assets and securities to be returned are not subject to liability and are not required to be held by any provision of law or purposes of the original deposit. If the insurer has reinsured all its outstanding risks in another insurer or insurers authorized to transact insurance in this state, then the commissioner shall deliver the assets and securities to the insurer or insurers assuming the risks upon:
(a) written notice to the commissioner by the domestic insurer that the assets and securities have been assigned, transferred, and set over to the reinsuring insurer or insurers, accompanied by a verified copy of the assignment, transfer, or conveyance; and
(b) in the case of deposits of the reserves of domestic life insurers under 33-2-416, proof satisfactory to the commissioner that the reinsuring insurer or insurers have deposited or will deposit and will maintain on deposit in public custody through the insurance supervisory official of its state of domicile assets and securities of like quality in an amount not less than the reserves of the policies and contracts reinsured, in addition to any other deposit of the insurer required or permitted by law, and, unless the insurer is required to deposit and maintain on deposit all of its reserves, that the deposit of the reserves will be deposited and held on deposit for the special benefit and protection of the holders of the life insurance policies and annuity contracts reinsured.
(3) The commissioner shall return to a foreign insurer any deposit made in this state by the insurer when the insurer has ceased transacting insurance in this state or in the United States, and the insurer is not subject to any liability in this state on account of which the deposit was held.
(4) If the insurer is subject to delinquency proceedings, as defined in part 13 of this chapter, upon the order of a court of competent jurisdiction, the commissioner shall yield the assets and securities held on deposit to the receiver, conservator, rehabilitator, or liquidator of the insurer or to any other properly designated official or officials who succeed to the management and control of the insurer's assets.
(5) A release of deposited assets may not be made except upon application to and the written order of the commissioner. The commissioner does not have personal liability for release of any deposit or part of a deposit made in good faith.
History: En. Sec. 144, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3213; amd. Sec. 141, Ch. 575, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1089, Ch. 56, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 169, L. 2013.