Definitions

For purposes of this Subpart: (1) "Insurance group" means, for the purpose of conducting an ORSA, those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in R.S. 22:691.2(5). (2) "Insurer" means an insurer as defined in R.S. 22:46 except that it shall not include agencies, authorities, or instrumentalities of the United States, its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or a state or political subdivision of a state. (3) "NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (4) "Own risk and solvency assessment" or "ORSA" means a confidential internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of an insurer or insurance group, conducted by that insurer or insurance group of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer's or insurance group's current business plan, and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks. (5) "ORSA Guidance Manual" means the current version of the "Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual" developed and adopted by the NAIC and as amended from time to time. A change in the ORSA Guidance Manual shall become effective on January first following the calendar year in which the changes are adopted by the NAIC. (6) "ORSA summary report" means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer's or insurance group's ORSA.