2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 26 - Insurance Code › Chapter 28 - Rehabilitation and Liquidation › Section 26-28-101 - Definitions.

26-28-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Ancillary state" means any state other than a domiciliary state;
(ii) "Delinquency proceeding" means any proceeding commenced against an insurer pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing or conserving the insurer;
(iii) "Domiciliary state" means the state in which an insurer is incorporated or organized, or in the case of an insurer incorporated or organized in a foreign country, the state in which the insurer, being authorized to do business therein, has at the commencement of delinquency proceedings, the largest amount of its assets held in trust and assets held on deposit for the benefit of its policyholders or policyholders and creditors in the United States, and that insurer is deemed to be domiciled in that state;
(iv) "Foreign country" means territory not in any state;
(v) "General assets" means:
(A) All property not specifically mortgaged, pledged, deposited or otherwise encumbered for the security or benefit of specified persons or limited classes of persons and as to any specifically encumbered property, all such property or its proceeds in excess of the amount necessary to discharge the sums secured thereby; and
(B) Assets held in trust and assets held on deposit for the security or benefit of all policyholders or all policyholders and creditors in the United States.
(vi) "Impairment" or "insolvency" means that an insurer does not possess assets at least equal to all liabilities and required reserves together with its total issued and outstanding capital stock if a stock insurer, or the minimum surplus if a mutual or reciprocal insurer required by this code to be maintained for the kinds of insurance it is then authorized to transact and the capital or surplus is deemed impaired and the insurer is deemed insolvent;
(vii) "Insurer" means any person, firm, corporation, association or aggregation of persons doing an insurance business and subject to the insurance supervisory authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization or conservation by the commissioner or the equivalent insurance supervisory official of another state, including health organizations regulated under W.S. 26-48-201 through 26-48-212;
(viii) "Preferred claim" means any claim with respect to which the law of the state or of the United States accords priority of payments from the insurer's general assets;
(ix) "Receiver" means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator or conservator as the context requires;
(x) "Reciprocal state" means any state other than this state in which in substance and effect the provisions of the Uniform Insurers Liquidation Act, as defined in W.S. 26-28-119, are in force, including the provisions requiring that the commissioner of insurance or equivalent supervisory official be the receiver of a delinquent insurer;
(xi) "Secured claim" means:
(A) Any claim secured by mortgage, trust deed, pledge, deposit as security, escrow or otherwise, but not including special deposit claim or claims against general assets; and
(B) Claims which more than four (4) months prior to the commencement of delinquency proceeding in the state of the insurer's domicile have become liens upon specific assets by reason of judicial process.
(xii) "Special deposit claim" means any claim secured by a deposit made pursuant to statute for the security or benefit of a limited class of persons, but not including any general assets;
(xiii) "State" means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.