§ 4406 — Delaware Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association — Created; accounts; supervision

(a) There is created a nonprofit legal entity to be known as the Delaware Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association. All member insurers shall be and remain members of the Association as a condition of their authority to transact insurance, managed care organization, or health maintenance organization business in this State. The Association shall perform its functions under the plan of operation established and approved under § 4410 of this title, and shall exercise its powers through a Board of Directors established under § 4407 of this title. For purposes of administration and assessment, the Association shall maintain 2 accounts:

(1) The life insurance and annuity account, which includes the following subaccounts:

a. Life insurance account;

b. Annuity account, which shall include annuity contracts owned by a governmental retirement plan (or its trustee) established under § 401, § 403(b) or § 457 of the United States Internal Revenue Code [26 U.S.C. § 401, § 403(b) or § 457], but shall otherwise exclude unallocated annuities; and

c. Unallocated annuity account, which shall exclude contracts owned by a governmental retirement benefit plan (or its trustee) established under § 401, § 403(b) or § 457 of the United States Internal Revenue Code [26 U.S.C. § 401, § 403(b) or § 457].

(2) The health account.

(b) The Association shall come under the immediate supervision of the Commissioner and shall be subject to the applicable provisions of the insurance laws of this State.

Legislative History

63 Del. Laws, c. 442, § 1 ; 70 Del. Laws, c. 547, § 2 ; 73 Del. Laws, c. 327, § 3 ; 82 Del. Laws, c. 113, § 4