Ind. Code § 27-1-23-3 – Registration; amendments; termination; disclaimer of affiliation; filing requirements; civil penalty

(a) Every insurer which is authorized to do business in this state and which is a member of an insurance holding company system shall register with the commissioner, except a foreign insurer subject to disclosure requirements and standards adopted by statute or regulation in the jurisdiction of its domicile which are substantially similar to those contained in:
1. (1) this section;
2. (2) section 4(a) and 4(c) of this chapter; and
3. (3) section 4(b) of this chapter or a provision such as the following:
  Each registered insurer shall keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement by reporting all material changes or additions within fifteen (15) days after the end of the month in which it learns of each such change or addition.
  Any insurer which is subject to registration under this section shall register within fifteen (15) days after it becomes subject to registration, and annually thereafter by July 1 of each year for the previous calendar year, unless the commissioner for good cause shown extends the time for registration, and then within such extended time. The commissioner may require any authorized insurer which is a member of an insurance holding company system but not subject to registration under this section to furnish a copy of the registration statement or other information filed by such insurer with the insurance regulatory authority of its domiciliary jurisdiction.
(b) Every insurer subject to registration shall file a registration statement on a form prescribed by the commissioner, which shall contain current information about all of the following:
1. (1) The capital structure, general financial condition, ownership and management of the insurer and any person controlling the insurer.
2. (2) The identity of every member of the insurance holding company system.
3. (3) The following agreements in force, relationships subsisting, and transactions that are currently outstanding or that have occurred during the last calendar year between such insurer and its affiliates:
  1. (A) loans, other investments, or purchases, sales or exchanges of securities of the affiliates by the insurer or of the insurer by its affiliates;
  2. (B) purchases, sales, or exchanges of assets;
  3. (C) transactions not in the ordinary course of business;
  4. (D) guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate which result in an actual contingent exposure of the insurer's assets to liability, other than insurance contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the insurer's business;
  5. (E) all management and service contracts and all cost-sharing arrangements;
  6. (F) reinsurance agreements;
  7. (G) dividends and other distributions to shareholders; and
  8. (H) consolidated tax allocation agreements.
4. (4) Any pledge of the insurer's stock, including stock of any subsidiary or controlling affiliate, for a loan made to any member of the insurance holding company system.
5. (5) If requested by the commissioner, financial statements of the insurance holding company system, the parent corporation of the insurer, or all affiliates, including annual audited financial statements filed with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) or the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
6. (6) Statements reflecting that the insurer's:
  1. (A) board of directors oversees corporate governance and internal controls; and
  2. (B) officers or senior management have approved and implemented and maintain and monitor corporate governance and internal control procedures.
7. (7) Other matters concerning transactions between registered insurers and any affiliates as may be included from time to time in any registration forms prescribed by the commissioner.
8. (8) Other information that the commissioner requires under rules adopted under IC 4-22-2 .
(c) Every registration statement must contain a summary outlining all items in the current registration statement representing changes from the prior registration statement.
(d) No information need be disclosed on the registration statement filed pursuant to subsection (b) if such information is not material for the purposes of this section. Unless the commissioner by rule or order provides otherwise, sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or extensions of credit, or investments, involving one-half of one percent (0.5%) or less of an insurer's admitted assets as of the thirty-first day of December next preceding shall not be deemed material for purposes of this section. Beginning January 1, 2026, the definition of materiality set forth in this subsection does not apply for purposes of the Group Capital Calculation or the Liquidity Stress Test Framework.
(e) Each registered insurer shall keep current the information required to be disclosed in its registration statement by reporting all material changes or additions on amendment forms prescribed by the commissioner within fifteen (15) days after the end of the month in which it learns of each such change or addition.
(f) A person within an insurance holding company system subject to registration under this chapter shall provide complete and accurate information to an insurer when that information is reasonably necessary to enable the insurer to comply with this chapter.
(g) The commissioner shall terminate the registration of any insurer which demonstrates that it no longer is subject to the provisions of this section.
(h) The commissioner may require or allow two (2) or more affiliated insurers subject to registration under this section to file a consolidated registration statement or consolidated reports amending their consolidated registration statement or their individual registration statements.
(i) The commissioner may allow an insurer which is authorized to do business in this state and which is a member of an insurance holding company system to register on behalf of any affiliated insurer which is required to register under subsection (a) and to file all information and material required to be filed under this section.
(j) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any insurer, information, or transaction if and to the extent that the commissioner by rule or order shall exempt the same from the provisions of this section.
(k) Any person may file with the commissioner a disclaimer of affiliation with any authorized insurer or such a disclaimer may be filed by such insurer or any member of an insurance holding company system. The disclaimer shall fully disclose all material relationships and bases for affiliation between such person and such insurer as well as the basis for disclaiming such affiliation. After a disclaimer has been filed, the insurer shall be relieved of any duty to register or report under this section which may arise out of the insurer's relationship with such person unless and until the commissioner disallows such disclaimer. A disclaimer of affiliation is considered to have been granted unless the commissioner, less than thirty (30) days after receiving a disclaimer, notifies the person filing the disclaimer that the disclaimer is disallowed. The commissioner shall disallow such disclaimer only after furnishing all parties in interest with notice and opportunity to be heard.
(l) The person that ultimately controls an insurer that is subject to registration shall file with the lead state commissioner of the insurance holding company system (as determined by the procedures in the Financial Analysis Handbook) an annual enterprise risk report that identifies, to the best of the person's knowledge, the material risks within the insurance holding company system that could pose enterprise risk to the insurer.
(m) This subsection is effective beginning January 1, 2026. Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (1) through (7), the ultimate controlling person of every insurer subject to registration shall file, concurrently with the registration, an annual group capital calculation as directed by the lead state commissioner. The report shall be completed in accordance with the NAIC Group Capital Calculation Instructions, which may permit the lead state commissioner to allow a controlling person that is not the ultimate controlling person to file the group capital calculation. The report shall be filed with the lead state commissioner of the insurance holding company system as determined by the commissioner in accordance with the procedures within the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC. Insurance holding company systems described in the following are exempt from filing the group capital calculation:
1. (1) An insurance holding company system that has only one (1) insurer within its holding company structure, writes business only in its domestic state, is licensed only in its domestic state, and assumes no business from any other insurer.
2. (2) An insurance holding company system that is required to perform a group capital calculation specified by the United States Federal Reserve Board. The lead state commissioner shall request the calculation from the Federal Reserve Board under the terms of information sharing agreements in effect. If the Federal Reserve Board cannot share the calculation with the lead state commissioner, the insurance holding company system is not exempt from the group capital calculation filing.
3. (3) An insurance holding company system whose non-United States group wide supervisor is located within a Reciprocal Jurisdiction as described in IC 27-6-10.1 that recognizes the United States state regulatory approach to group supervision and group capital.
4. (4) An insurance holding company system:
  1. (A) that provides information to the lead state that meets the requirements for accreditation under the NAIC financial standards and accreditation program, either directly or indirectly through the group wide supervisor, who has determined such information is satisfactory to allow the lead state to comply with the NAIC group supervision approach, as detailed in the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC; and
  2. (B) whose non-United States group wide supervisor that is not in a Reciprocal Jurisdiction recognizes and accepts, as specified by the commissioner in regulation, the group capital calculation as the world wide group capital assessment for United States insurance groups that operate in that jurisdiction.
5. (5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions (3) and (4), a lead state commissioner shall require the group capital calculation for United States operations of any non-United States based insurance holding company system where, after any necessary consultation with other supervisors or officials, it is deemed appropriate by the lead state commissioner for prudential oversight and solvency monitoring purposes or for ensuring the competitiveness of the insurance marketplace.
6. (6) Notwithstanding the exemptions from filing the group capital calculation stated in subdivisions (1) through (4), the lead state commissioner has the discretion to exempt the ultimate controlling person from filing the annual group capital calculation or to accept a limited group capital filing or report in accordance with criteria as specified by the commissioner in regulation.
7. (7) If the lead state commissioner determines that an insurance holding company system no longer meets one (1) or more of the requirements for an exemption from filing the group capital calculation under this section, the insurance holding company system shall file the group capital calculation at the next annual filing date unless given an extension by the lead state commissioner based on reasonable grounds shown.
(n) This subsection is effective beginning January 1, 2026. The ultimate controlling person of every insurer that is subject to registration and is also scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework shall file the results of a specific year's Liquidity Stress Test. The filing shall be made to the lead state commissioner of the insurance holding company system as determined by the procedures within the Financial Analysis Handbook adopted by the NAIC, subject to the following:
1. (1) The NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework includes Scope Criteria applicable to a specific data year. These Scope Criteria are reviewed at least annually by the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or its successor. Any change to the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework or to the data year for which the Scope Criteria are to be measured shall be effective on January 1 of the year following the calendar year when such changes are adopted. Insurers meeting at least one (1) threshold of the Scope Criteria are considered scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for the specified data year unless the lead state commissioner, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or its successor, determines that the insurer should not be scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for that data year. Similarly, insurers that do not trigger at least one (1) threshold of the Scope Criteria are considered scoped out of the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for the specified data year unless the lead state commissioner, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or its successor, determines that the insurer should be scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework for that data year.
2. (2) The performance of, and the filing of the results from, a specific year's Liquidity Stress Test shall comply with the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework's instructions and reporting templates for that year and any lead state commissioner determinations, in consultation with the NAIC Financial Stability Task Force or its successor, that are provided within the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework.
(o) The commissioner may impose on a person a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) per day that the person fails to file, within the period specified, a:
1. (1) registration statement; or
2. (2) summary of a registration statement or enterprise risk filing;
  required by this section. The commissioner shall deposit a civil penalty collected under this subsection in the department of insurance fund established by IC 27-1-3-28 .
  Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.387, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.244, SEC.3; P.L.26-1991, SEC.11; P.L.81-2012, SEC.14; P.L.129-2014, SEC.7; P.L.72-2016, SEC.11; P.L.124-2018, SEC.41; P.L.158-2024, SEC.7.