AI-assisted research summary: Reinsurance intermediary-brokers must use a written authorization for transactions with the insurer and follow listed account, fund-handling, compliance, and disclosure rules.
§1724. Required contract provisions for reinsurance intermediary-brokers Any transactions between a reinsurance intermediary-broker and the insurer the broker represents in such capacity shall be entered into only pursuant to a written authorization, specifying the responsibilities of each party. The authorization shall, at a minimum, provide that: (1) The insurer may terminate the authority of the reinsurance intermediary-broker at any time. (2) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall render accounts to the insurer accurately detailing all material transactions, including information necessary to support all commissions, charges and other fees received by, or owing, to the reinsurance intermediary-broker, and remit all funds due to the insurer within thirty days of receipt. (3) All funds collected for the insurer's account shall be held by the reinsurance intermediary-broker in a fiduciary capacity in a bank which is a qualified United States financial institution as defined herein. (4) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall comply with R.S. 22:1725. (5) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall comply with the written standards established by the insurer for the cession or retrocession of all risks. (6) The reinsurance intermediary-broker shall disclose to the insurer any relationship with any reinsurer to which business will be ceded or retroceded. Acts 1992, No. 811, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 22:1210.23 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2011, No. 94, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.