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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) An insurer shall establish reserves using a principle based valuation that meets all of the following conditions for policies or contracts issued on or after the operative date of the valuation manual as specified in the valuation manual:
(i) Quantifies the benefits, guarantees, funding and risks associated with the policies or contracts at a level of conservatism that reflects conditions including unfavorable events with a reasonable probability of occurring during the lifetime of the contracts. For policies or contracts with significant tail risk, reflects conditions appropriately adverse to quantify the tail risk;
(ii) Incorporates assumptions, risk analysis methods and financial models and management techniques that are consistent with those utilized within the insurer's overall risk assessment process, while recognizing potential differences in financial reporting structures and any prescribed assumptions or methods;
(iii) Incorporates assumptions derived in one (1) of the following manners:
(A) Assumptions prescribed in the valuation manual;
(B) For assumptions not prescribed in the valuation manual, assumptions that:
(I) Use the insurer's available experience, to the extent it is relevant and statistically credible; or
(II) To the extent that company data on experience is not available, relevant or statistically credible, use other relevant, statistically credible experience.
(iv) Provides margins for uncertainty including adverse deviation and estimation error such that the greater the uncertainty the greater the margin and resulting reserve.
(b) An insurer using a principle based valuation for one (1) or more policies or contracts subject to this section as specified in the valuation manual shall:
(i) Establish procedures for corporate governance and oversight of the actuarial valuation function consistent with those described in the valuation manual;
(ii) Provide to the commissioner and the insurer's board of directors an annual certification of the effectiveness of the internal controls with respect to the principle based valuation. The controls shall be designed to assure all material risks inherent in the liabilities and associated assets subject to the valuation are included in the valuation and valuations are made in accordance with the valuation manual. The certification shall be based on the controls in place as of the end of the preceding calendar year;
(iii) Develop, and file with the commissioner upon the commissioner's request, a principle based valuation report that complies with standards prescribed in the valuation manual.
(c) A principle based valuation may include a prescribed formulaic reserve component.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Wyoming Statutes Title 26. Insurance Code § 26-6-210. Principle based valuation; requirements - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/wy/title-26-insurance-code/wy-st-sect-26-6-210/
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