48.12.080 - Increased reserves. - Washington Statutes

Increased reserves.

(1) If the commissioner determines that an insurer's unearned premium reserves, however computed, are inadequate, he or she may require the insurer to compute such reserves or any part thereof according to such other method or methods as are prescribed in this chapter.

     (2) If the loss experience of an insurer shows that its loss reserves, however estimated, are inadequate, the commissioner shall require the insurer to maintain loss reserves in such increased amount as is needed to make them adequate.

[2009 c 549 § 7053; 1947 c 79 § .12.08; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.12.08.]