Insurance Insolvency Guaranty Fund — Covered Risks — Loss or Expense Apportionment Mechanisms

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Insurance
4. Risk Retention Groups and Purchasing Groups
5. Insurance Insolvency Guaranty Fund — Covered Risks — Loss or Expense Apportionment Mechanisms

1. No risk retention group is required or permitted to join or contribute financially to any insurance insolvency guaranty fund, or similar mechanism, in this state, nor shall any risk retention group, or its insureds or claimants against its insureds, receive any benefit from any such fund for claims arising under the insurance policies issued by the risk retention group.
2. When a purchasing group obtains insurance covering its members' risks from an insurer not authorized in this state or a risk retention group, the risks, wherever resident or located, shall not be covered by any insurance guaranty fund or similar mechanism in this state.
3. When a purchasing group obtains insurance covering its members' risks from an authorized insurer, only risks resident or located in this state shall be covered by the state guaranty fund subject to § 56-12-111.
4. Notwithstanding § 56-41-105 to the contrary, the commissioner may require a risk retention group to participate, or exempt a risk retention group from participation, in any mechanism established or authorized under the law of this state for the equitable apportionment among insurers of liability insurance losses and expenses incurred on policies written through the mechanism, and the risk retention group shall submit sufficient information to the commissioner to enable the commissioner to apportion on a nondiscriminatory basis the risk retention group's proportionate share of the losses and expenses.

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