Ariz. Admin. Code § R20-6-310.02 - Filing Procedures
A.
Deadline to file. An insurer, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a
member, required to file a CGAD by A.A.C. Title 20, Chapter 2, Article 16
shall, no later than June 1 of each calendar year, submit to the Director a
CGAD that contains the information described in Section R20-6-310.03.
B. Attestation. The CGAD must include a
signature of the insurer's or insurance group's CEO or corporate secretary
attesting to the best of that person's belief and knowledge that the insurer or
insurance group has implemented the corporate governance practices and that the
copy of the CGAD has been provided to the insurer's or insurance group's Board
of Directors or appropriate committee of the Board of Directors.
C. Format of the CGAD. The insurer or
insurance group shall have discretion regarding the appropriate format for
providing the information required and is permitted to customize the CGAD to
provide the most relevant information necessary to permit the Director to gain
an understanding of the corporate governance structure, policies and practices
utilized by the insurer or insurance group.
D. Insurer or insurance group to determine
level of reporting.
1. For purposes of
completing the CGAD, the insurer or insurance group may choose to provide
information on governance activities that occur at the ultimate controlling
parent level, an intermediate holding company level and/or the individual legal
entity level, depending on how the insurer or insurance group has structured
its system of corporate governance.
2. The insurer or insurance group is
encouraged to make the CGAD disclosures at:
a.
The level at which the insurer's or insurance group's risk appetite is
determined,
b. The level at which
the earnings, capital, liquidity, operations, and reputation of the insurer are
overseen collectively and at which the supervision of those factors are
coordinated and exercised, or
c.
The level at which legal liability for failure of general corporate governance
duties would be placed.
3. If the insurer or insurance group
determines the level of reporting based on the criteria in subsection (D)(2),
it shall indicate which of the three criteria was used to determine the level
of reporting and explain any subsequent changes in the level of
reporting.
E. CGAD
completed at the insurance group level. Notwithstanding subsection (A) and as
outlined in A.R.S. §
20-492.01, if the CGAD is
completed at the insurance group level, then it must be filed with the lead
state of the group as determined by the procedures outlined in the NAIC's
Financial Analysis Handbook 2018 Annual/2019 Quarterly, pp. 771 through 774,
and no future editions. In these instances, a copy of the CGAD must also be
provided, upon request, to the chief regulatory official of any state in which
the insurance group has a domestic insurer.
F. Reference to other existing documents. An
insurer or insurance group may comply with this Section by referencing other
existing documents (e.g., ORSA Summary Report, Holding Company Form B or F
Filings, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Proxy Statements, foreign
regulatory reporting requirements, etc.) if the documents provide information
that is comparable to the information described in R20-6-310.03. The insurer or
insurance group shall clearly reference the location of the relevant
information within the CGAD and attach the referenced document if it is not
already filed or available to the Director.
G. Subsequent filings of the CGAD. Each year
following the initial filing of the CGAD, the insurer or insurance group shall
file an amended version of the previously filed CGAD indicating where changes
have been made to the previously filed CGAD. The filing shall also state if no
changes are made to the information or activities previously reported by the
insurer or insurance group.
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