Delaware § 1105 Disallowance of “wash” transactions

Delaware Statutes

§ 1105 — Disallowance of “wash” transactions

Delaware § 1105

JurisdictionDelaware

Title18

PartInsurance

Ch. 11ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

Subch.Liabilities and Reserves

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Bluebook

Del. Code tit. 18, § 1105 (2026).

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(a)The Commissioner shall disallow as an asset or as a credit against liabilities any reinsurance found by him or her after a hearing thereon to have been arranged for the purpose principally of deception as to the ceding insurer’s financial condition as at the date of any financial statement of the insurer. Without limiting the general purport of the foregoing provision, reinsurance of any substantial part of the insurer’s outstanding risks contracted for in fact within 4 months prior to the date of any such financial statement and cancelled in fact within 4 months after the date of such statement, or reinsurance under which the reinsurer bears no substantial insurance risk or chance of net loss to itself, shall prima facie be deemed to have been arranged principally for the purpose of d

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(a) The Commissioner shall disallow as an asset or as a credit against liabilities any reinsurance found by him or her after a hearing thereon to have been arranged for the purpose principally of deception as to the ceding insurer’s financial condition as at the date of any financial statement of the insurer. Without limiting the general purport of the foregoing provision, reinsurance of any substantial part of the insurer’s outstanding risks contracted for in fact within 4 months prior to the date of any such financial statement and cancelled in fact within 4 months after the date of such statement, or reinsurance under which the reinsurer bears no substantial insurance risk or chance of net loss to itself, shall prima facie be deemed to have been arranged principally for the purpose of deception.

(b) The Commissioner shall disallow as an asset any deposit, funds or other assets of the insurer found by him or her after a hearing thereon:

(1) Not to be in good faith the property of the insurer; and

(2) Not freely subject to withdrawal or liquidation by the insurer at any time for the payment or discharge of claims or other obligations arising under its policies; and

(3) To be resulting from arrangements made principally for the purpose of deception as to the insurer’s financial condition as at the date of any financial statement of the insurer.

(c) The Commissioner may suspend or revoke the certificate of authority of any insurer which has knowingly been a party to any such deception or attempt thereat.