New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Ins - Commissioner, Insurance Department
Chapter Ins 1400 - AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Part Ins 1406 - PLAN OF OPERATION FOR THE NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTOMOBILE REINSURANCE FACILITY
Section Ins 1406.11 - Facility Charges, Premium, and Allowance
Current through Register No. 12, March 21, 2024
(a) Each member ceding a policy of automobile insurance covering a private passenger automobile risk to the facility shall give notice of cession to the facility for that risk. The facility shall debit the member's account in the amount of the member premiums ceded. Premium ceded shall be 85 percent of the facility gross premium less commission allowance.
(b) Each member ceding risks shall, with respect to losses incurred in connection therewith, subject to the limits of coverage provided in this rule, receive a credit against the sum of such debits and facility gross premiums on ceded business for losses paid less recoveries received each month.
(c) The facility shall, quarterly or less frequently as determined by the board, issue summaries to all members reflecting each member's cumulative balances on business it ceded to the facility, providing reimbursement for those members with allowable credits in excess of debits, and shall submit a statement to those members with debits which are in excess of allowable credits. A member so billed for debits shall remit such excess within the period provided in the plan of operation, subject to interest charges at a legal interest rate per month, or fractional part thereof, for late payment as provided therein.
(d) A member which in any month reports allowable credits in excess of debits for ceded risks may request reimbursement for such excess. The facility shall reimburse the member for such excess after the board acts upon such request. The board shall act on an insurers request for reimbursement pursuant to this section.
(e) The maximum commission allowance which may be credited against the premium ceded to the facility shall be 10 percent of the facility gross premium for those companies paying an actual commission. For all other companies, the maximum commission allowance which may be credited against the premium ceded to the facility shall be 5 percent of the facility gross premium. The charges in lieu of paid commissions shall be allowable only to the extent that such have been filed with the insurance department.
(f) SDIP point surcharges shall be applied to the gross base premium as follows:
(g) The premium amount to be ceded shall be 85 percent of gross base premium other than SDIP surcharges less 10 percent if commissions are paid or less 5 percent if commissions are not paid plus 85 percent of the SDIP surcharge less the SDIP commission allowance or the actual SDIP commission, whichever is less.