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Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in ORS 732.517 to 732.592:
(1) “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.
(2) “Control” means possessing the direct or indirect power to manage a person or set the person's policies, whether by owning voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position or corporate office the person holds.
(3) “Enterprise risk” means an activity, circumstance, event or series of events that involve one or more of an insurer's affiliates and that, if not remedied promptly, are likely to have an adverse material effect on the insurer's or the insurance holding company system's financial condition or liquidity, including but not limited to an activity, circumstance, event or series of events that would cause the insurer's risk-based capital to fall into company action level or cause the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine under ORS 731.385 that the insurer is in hazardous financial condition.
(4) “Insurance holding company system” means two or more affiliated persons, one or more of which is an insurer, and includes a financial holding company as described in section 103 of the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (P.L. 106-102). 1
(5) “Insurer” has the meaning given that term in ORS 731.106 but does not include an agency, authority or instrumentality of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, another state or a political subdivision of another state.
(6)(a) “Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or a similar entity or combination of entities that are described in this subsection.
(b) “Person” does not include:
(A) A joint venture partnership that is engaged exclusively in owning, managing, leasing or developing real or tangible personal property; or
(B) For the purposes of ORS 732.518, 732.521, 732.523, 732.526 and 732.528, a securities broker that holds, in the usual and customary broker's function, less than 20 percent of the voting securities of an insurer or of any person that controls an insurer.
(7) “Security holder” means a person that owns a security of another person, including a security denominated as common stock, preferred stock or a debt obligation and any instrument that is convertible into or that is evidence of the right to acquire the security of another person.
(8) “Subsidiary” means an affiliate that a person controls directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries.
(9) “Voting security” means a security that entitles the owner or holder of the security to vote at a meeting of shareholders, including a security that is convertible into a voting security or that is evidence of a right to acquire a voting security.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Oregon Revised Statutes Insurance § 732.548 - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/or/title-56-insurance/or-rev-st-sect-732-548/
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