In any determination of
the financial condition of any insurer there shall be allowed as
assets only such assets as belong wholly and exclusively to the
insurer, which are registered, recorded, or held under the
insurer's name, and which consist of:
(1) Cash in the possession of the insurer or in transit
under its control, and the true balance of any deposit of the
insurer in a solvent bank or trust company;
(2) Investments, securities, properties, and loans acquired
or held in accordance with this code, and in connection therewith
the following items:
(a) Interest due or accrued on any bond or evidence of
indebtedness which is not in default and which is not valued on a
basis including accrued interest.
(b) Declared and unpaid dividends on stocks and shares
unless such amount has otherwise been allowed as an asset.
(c) Interest due or accrued upon a collateral loan in an
amount not to exceed one year's interest thereon.
(d) Interest due or accrued on deposits in solvent banks and
trust companies, and interest due or accrued on other assets if
such interest is in the judgment of the commissioner a
collectible asset.
(e) Interest due or accrued on a mortgage loan, in amount
not exceeding in any event the amount, if any, of the difference
between the unpaid principal and the value of the property less
delinquent taxes thereon; but if any interest on the loan is in
default more than one hundred eighty days, or if any interest on
the loan is in default and any taxes or any installment thereof
on the property are and have been due and unpaid for more than
one hundred eighty days, no allowance shall be made for any
interest on the loan.
(f) Rent due or accrued on real property if such rent is not
in arrears for more than three months;
(3) Premium notes, policy loans, and other policy assets and
liens on policies of life insurance, in amount not exceeding the
legal reserve and other policy liabilities carried on each
individual policy;
(4) The net amount of uncollected and deferred premiums in
the case of a life insurer which carries the full annual mean
tabular reserve liability;
(5) Premiums in the course of collection, other than for
life insurance, not more than ninety days past due, less
commissions payable thereon. The foregoing limitation shall not
apply to premiums payable directly or indirectly by the United
States government or any of its instrumentalities;
(6) Installment premiums other than life insurance premiums,
in accordance with regulations prescribed by the commissioner
consistent with practice formulated or adopted by the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners;
(7) Notes and like written obligations not past due, taken
for premiums other than life insurance premiums, on policies
permitted to be issued on such basis, to the extent of the
unearned premium reserves carried thereon and unless otherwise
required by regulation prescribed by the commissioner;
(8) Reinsurance recoverable subject to RCW 48.12.160;
(9) Amounts receivable by an assuming insurer representing
funds withheld by a solvent ceding insurer under a reinsurance
treaty;
(10) Deposits or equities recoverable from underwriting
associations, syndicates and reinsurance funds, or from any
suspended banking institution, to the extent deemed by the
commissioner available for the payment of losses and claims and
at values to be determined by him or her;
(11) Electronic and mechanical machines constituting a data
processing and accounting system if the cost of such system is at
least twenty-five thousand dollars, which cost shall be amortized
in full over a period not to exceed three calendar years; and
(12) Other assets, not inconsistent with the foregoing
provisions, deemed by the commissioner available for the payment
of losses and claims, at values to be determined by him or her.
[2009 c 549 § 7052; 2007 c 80 § 2; 1977 ex.s. c 180 § 2; 1963 c 195 § 11; 1947 c 79 § .12.01; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.12.01.]