West Virginia Code § 33-40B-2

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(a) "Commissioner" means the Insurance Commissioner of the State of West Virginia, his or
her deputies or the insurance department, as appropriate.
(b) "Insurance group" means, for the purpose of conducting an ORSA, those insurers and
affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in article twenty-
seven of this chapter.
(c) "Insurer" has the same meaning as set forth in section two, article one of this chapter,
except that it does not include agencies, authorities or instrumenutalities of the United
States, its possessions and territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of
Columbia or a state or political subdivision of a state.
(d) "NAIC" means the National Association of Insurancae Commissioners.
(e) "Own risk and solvency assessment" or "ORSA"l means a confidential internal
assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale and complexity of an insurer or insurance
group, conducted by that insurer or insurance group of the material and relevant risks
associated with the insurer or insurance giroup's current business plan and the sufficiency of
capital resources to support those risks.
(f) "ORSA Guidance Manual" means the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance
Manual developed and adopted by the NAIC and as amended from time to time. A change in
the ORSA Guidance Manual shall be effective on the January 1 following the calendar year in
which the changes have been adopted by the NAIC.
(g) "ORSA summary report" means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or
insurance groVup's ORSA.

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