ITEM 4. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
If the ultimate controlling person is a corporation, an organization, a limited liability company, or other legal entity, furnish the following information for the directors and executive officers of the ultimate controlling person: the individual’s name and address, his or her principal occupation and all offices and positions held during the past 5 years, and any conviction of crimes other than traffic violations not involving death or injury. If the ultimate controlling person is an individual, furnish the individual’s name and address, his or her principal occupation and all offices and positions held during the past 5 years, and any conviction of crimes other than traffic violations not involving death of injury.
ITEM 5. TRANSACTIONS AND AGREEMENTS
Briefly describe the following agreements in force, and transactions currently outstanding or which have occurred during the last calendar year between the registrant and its affiliates:
(a) Loans, other investments, or purchases, sales or exchanges of securities of the affiliates by the Registrant or of the Registrant by its affiliates;
(b) Purchases, sales, extensions of credit or exchanges of assets;
(c) Transactions not in the ordinary course of business;
(d) Guarantees or undertakings for the benefit of an affiliate which result in an actual contingent exposure of the Registrant’s assets to liability, other than insurance contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the registrant’s business;
(e) All management agreements, exclusive agency agreements, service contracts and all cost-sharing arrangements;
(f) Reinsurance agreements;
(g) Dividends and other distributions to shareholders;
(h) Consolidated tax allocation agreements; and
(i) Any pledge of the Registrant’s stock or of the stock of any subsidiary or affiliate having control of the insurer, for a loan made to any member of the insurance holding company system.
No information need be disclosed if the information is not material according to s. Ins 40.03 (5), Wis. Adm. Code. Sales, purchases, exchanges, loans or extensions of credit, investments or guarantees involving .5% or less of the registrant’s admitted assets as of the 31st day of December next preceding shall not be deemed material.
Ins 40.21 NoteNote: Commissioner may by order provide otherwise.
The description shall be in a manner as to permit the proper evaluation thereof by the commissioner, and shall include at least the following: the nature and purpose of the transaction, the nature and amounts of any payments or transfers of assets between the parties, the identity of all parties to the transaction, and relationship of the affiliates of the registrant.
ITEM 6. LITIGATION OR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS
Briefly describe any litigation or administrative proceedings of the following types, either then pending or concluded within the preceding fiscal year, to which the ultimate controlling person or any of its directors or executive officers is or was a party or of which the property of any such person is or was the subject; give the names of the parties and the court or agency in which the litigation or proceeding was held or is pending:
(a) Criminal prosecutions or administrative proceedings by any government agency or authority which may be relevant to the trustworthiness of any party thereto; and
(b) Proceedings which may have a material effect upon the solvency or capital structure of the ultimate controlling person including, but not necessarily limited to, bankruptcy, receivership or other corporate reorganizations.
ITEM 7. STATEMENT REGARDING GROUP OR SERIES OF TRANSACTIONS
Furnish a statement that transactions entered into since the filing of the prior year’s annual registration statement are neither part of a group or series of related or like transactions nor made for the purpose of avoiding regulatory threshold amounts and the review that might otherwise occur. Groups or series of related transactions shall be treated as single transactions.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
(a) Attach financial statements and exhibits to this statement as an appendix, and list under this item the financial statements and exhibits so attached.
(b) If the ultimate controlling person is a corporation, an organization, a limited liability company, or other legal entity, the financial statements shall include the annual financial statements of the ultimate controlling person in the insurance holding company system as of the end of the person’s immediately preceding fiscal year.
If at the time of the initial registration, the annual financial statements for the immediately preceding fiscal year are not available, annual statements for the previous fiscal year may be filed and similar financial information shall be filed for any subsequent period to the extent such information is available. Such financial statements may be prepared either on an individual basis or unless the commissioner otherwise requires, on a consolidated basis if consolidated statements are prepared in the usual course of business.
Other than with respect to the foregoing, such financial statement shall be filed in a standard form and format adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners unless an alternative form is accepted by the Commissioner. Documentation and financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or audited GAAP financial statements shall be deemed to be an appropriate form and format.
Unless the commissioner otherwise permits, the annual financial statements shall be accompanied by the certificate of an independent public accountant to the effect that the statements present fairly the financial position of the ultimate controlling person and the results of its operations for the year then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles or with requirements of insurance or other accounting principles prescribed or permitted under law. If the ultimate controlling person is an insurer which is actively engaged in the business of insurance, the annual financial statements need not be certified, provided they are based on the annual statement of the insurer’s state of domicile and are in accordance with requirements of insurance or other accounting principles prescribed or permitted under the law and regulations of that state.