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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="7-101" title_number="7" title_name="Maryland Insurance Acquisitions Disclosure and Control Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Affiliate” means a person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Control”, “controlling”, “controlled by”, or “under common control with” means the direct or indirect possession of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, through ownership of voting securities or of securities convertible into voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, whether or not the power is exercised or sought to be exercised unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Enterprise risk” means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Enterprise risk” includes anything that would:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>cause the insurer’s risk based capital to fall to or below a company action level under Title 4, Subtitle 3 of this article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>cause the insurer to be in a hazardous financial condition under § 9–102 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Group capital calculation instructions” means the group capital calculation instructions adopted by the NAIC, as amended from time to time.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Insurance holding company” means a person that directly or indirectly controls an insurer or controls a person that controls an insurer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Insurance holding company system” means two or more affiliates, at least one of which is an insurer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Lead state commissioner” means the lead state insurance commissioner of the insurance holding company system as determined by the procedures in the NAIC Financial Analysis Handbook.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“NAIC” means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“NAIC liquidity stress test framework” means a separate NAIC publication that includes, as adopted by the NAIC and as amended:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a history of the NAIC’s development of regulatory liquidity stress testing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the scope criteria applicable for a specific data year; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the liquidity stress test instructions and reporting templates for a specific data year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Scope criteria” means the designated exposure bases along with minimum magnitudes of exposure for the specified data year, as detailed in the NAIC liquidity stress test framework, used to establish a preliminary list of insurers considered included in the scope of the NAIC liquidity stress test framework for that data year.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Subsidiary” means an affiliate of a person that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, is controlled by that person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Ultimate controlling person” means the person within a holding company system that is not controlled by any other person.</text>
  </level>
</section>
