§ 38a-156g — Restrictions on stock offerings and stock ownership.

(a)(1) Until six months after the completion of an initial public offering, private equity placement or the first issuance of public or private stock or securities convertible into voting stock of a reorganized insurer or an intermediate stock holding company, to any person other than the mutual holding company or an intermediate stock holding company, neither the reorganized insurer nor an intermediate stock holding company shall award any stock options or stock grants to persons who are officers or directors of the mutual holding company, the reorganized insurer or an intermediate stock holding company, except if a reorganized insurer or its intermediate stock holding company distributes stock purchase rights to the policyholders of a reorganized insurer in connection with a public offering of stock, then officers and directors who are policyholders of such reorganized insurer shall receive and may exercise such stock purchase rights on the same basis as all other such policyholders. (2) Until two years after the end of the six-month period set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection, no officer, director or outside director of the mutual holding company, intermediate stock holding company and reorganized insurer shall own beneficially, in the aggregate, more than five per cent of the voting stock of the intermediate stock holding company or reorganized insurer. (3) After the two-year period set forth in subdivision (2) of this subsection, no officer or director of the mutual holding company, intermediate stock holding company or reorganized insurer shall own beneficially, in the aggregate, more than eighteen per cent of the voting stock of the intermediate stock holding company or reorganized insurer, except that the commissioner may find, in the event of a distress situation, that beneficial ownership of more than eighteen per cent in the aggregate by officers or directors is necessary and appropriate. (4) No person shall, directly or indirectly, offer to acquire or acquire, in any manner, beneficial ownership of more than ten per cent of any class of voting stock of the reorganized insurer, an intermediate stock holding company or any other institution that owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the voting stock of the reorganized insurer, without the prior approval of the commissioner. (b) (1) If a mutual holding company elects to cause an intermediate stock holding company or a reorganized insurer to conduct an initial public offering, initial private equity placement or the first issuance of public or private stock or securities convertible into voting stock, such company shall, subject to any limitations under law applicable to particular classes of policyholders, cause each eligible person to receive stock purchase rights in connection with such initial offering or issuance, unless a committee consisting of such company's outside directors determines by an affirmative vote of two-thirds that such stock purchase right offering would not be in the best interests of the members of such company. Such determination shall be subject to approval by the commissioner. (2) Except in the event of death or disability of such officer or director, no officer or director of a mutual holding company, intermediate stock holding company or reorganized insurer who holds voting stock or securities convertible into voting stock shall sell such stock or securities for a period of at least one year following the date of an initial offering or issuance of such stock or securities. (c) (1) Nothing in sections 38a-156 to 38a-156m , inclusive, shall prevent a mutual holding company, an intermediate stock holding company or a reorganized insurer from issuing stock of the intermediate stock holding company or the reorganized insurer to a trust, qualified under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, and established in connection with an employee stock ownership plan or other employee benefit plan for employees of the mutual holding company, intermediate stock holding company or reorganized insurer. The stock initially issued to such stock ownership or benefit plan shall not exceed, in the aggregate, five per cent of the stock initially issued. (2) No individual shall receive more than twelve and one-half per cent of the stock. No director who is not an employee shall receive more than two and one-half per cent of the stock individually or more than fifteen per cent in the aggregate. In no event shall any individual exceed the ownership limitation set forth in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of this section. (d) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit: (1) The purchase for cash of voting stock issued by an intermediate stock holding company or a reorganized insurer by officers, directors, employees, employee stock ownership plans or employee benefit plans of a mutual holding company, an intermediate stock holding company or a reorganizing insurer, in accordance with reasonable classifications of such individuals and plans and at the same price offered to the public in any public offering; or (2) the establishment by a mutual holding company, an intermediate stock holding company or a reorganized insurer of stock option, incentive or share ownership plans customary for publicly traded companies, subject to the limitations set forth in this section.

Legislative History

(P.A. 14-123, S. 8.) History: P.A. 14-123 effective June 6, 2014.