Report Title:

Captive Insurance Records; Confidential Treatment

 

Description:

Requires all, not only financial, records of a captive insurance company to be treated as confidential by the insurance commissioner.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

3040

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to captive insurance.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 431:19-101.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§431:19-101.2[]] Confidential treatment. (a) All nonpublic [financial] information of a captive insurance company, its parent, or the parent's member organizations, or a risk retention captive insurance company, disclosed to the commissioner pursuant to this article shall be given confidential treatment and shall not be made public by the commissioner without the prior written consent of the captive insurer, its parent company, or the member organization, or risk retention captive insurer to which it pertains.

(b) The commissioner may disclose nonpublic [financial] information of a captive insurance company, its parent, or the parent's member organizations, or a risk retention captive insurance company, to insurance departments of other states without prior consent of the captive insurer, its parent company, or the parent's member organization, or the risk retention captive insurer to which it pertains.

(c) In the event the commissioner determines that the interest of the policyholders, shareholders, or the public will be served by making the information public, then after giving the captive insurance company and its parent or the parent's member organizations, or the risk retention captive insurer that would be affected thereby, three days written notice of intent, and unless otherwise contrary to law, the commissioner may make public all or any part of the nonpublic [financial] information in a manner that the commissioner deems appropriate.

(d) For purposes of this section:

"Equity securities" means:

(1) A share in a corporation, whether or not transferable or denominated a "stock", or similar security evidencing an ownership interest in the person;

(2) The interest of a limited partner in a limited partnership;

(3) The interest of a partner in a partnership, including a joint venture; or

(4) A warrant or right, other than a right to convert, to purchase, sell, or subscribe to a share, security, or interest of a kind specified in paragraph (1), (2), or (3).

"Nonpublic [financial] information" means all information [regarding a person's financial condition], including the personal information of a captive insurance company's owners, officers, or directors that, prior to disclosure to the commissioner pursuant to this article is, or was not a public record as defined in rule 1001(5) of section 626-1; provided that in the case of a person whose equity securities are collectively owned and held by thirty-six or more persons, "nonpublic [financial] information" does not include financial information disclosed to owners and holders of equity securities."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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