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Mississippi · Snapshot Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17

Miss. Code Ann. § 83-85-5: Definitions.

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  1. Title 83. Insurance
  2. Chapter 85. Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(a) “Insurance group” means, for the purpose of conducting an ORSA, those insurers and affiliates included within an insurance holding company system as defined in Section 83-6-1(d).

(b) “Insurer” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Section 83-6-1(e), except that it shall not include agencies, authorities or instrumentalities 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.

(c) “Own Risk and Solvency Assessment” or “ORSA” 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 group’s current business plan, and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks.

(d) “ORSA Guidance Manual” means the current version of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Guidance Manual developed and adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (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.

(e) “ORSA Summary Report” means a confidential high-level summary of an insurer or insurance group’s ORSA.

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