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Capital Adequacy (E) Task Force - Adopted Modifications To Risk-Based Capital Formulas
CAPITAL ADEQUACY (E) TASK FORCE - ADOPTED MODIFICATIONS TO RISK-BASED CAPITAL FORMULAS

Capital Adequacy (E) Task Force

Adopted Modifications to Risk-Based Capital Formulas (Health, Life and Property/Casualty)

Last Updated February 8, 2024

This listing does not include adopted proposals for Risk-Based Capital for the years 2019 and prior.

Proposals are listed in "Effective Date" order followed by the "Date Adopted." Proposals adopted with modifications will be listed with the original proposal starting with year-end 2023. 

Statement Type:

CA = All Formulas; H = Health; L/F = Life/Fraternal; P/C = Property/Casualty

Proposal No. Effective Date Description Date Adopted Formula Affected
2024-01-P 2024 Year-End Change the Schedule P short-tail lines to show 10 years of data beginning in 2024 reporting. 3/17/2024 P/C
2023-15-CR 2024 Year-End

Provides the structure for adding severe convective storm as one of the catastrophe perils for informational purposes only in the Rcat component.

3/17/2024 P/C
2023-14-P 2024 Year-End Remove pet insurance from the inland marine line of business and add a new line of business to R4 and R5 components. 3/17/2024 P/C
2023-13-CR 2024 Year-End Collect additional detail from on an insurers on the structure of their catastrophe reinsurance program on an annual basis. 3/17/2024 P/C
2023-12-CA 2024 Year-End Modified pages XR002, XR010 and XR024 in the health formula and pages PR003, PR007, and PR031 in the property formula to clarify the line for Market Value in Excess Affiliated Stocks. This line includes both preferred and common stocks.  12/02/2023 H & P/C
2023-11-H 2024 Year-End The proposal includes Medicare and Medicaid amounts in Column (1), Line (4) and Line (10) on pages XR013 & XR014. 12/02/2023 H
2023-16-CR (Final)

2023-16-CR

2023 Year-End Final Release of the 2023 U.S. and non-U.S. Catastrophe Event List.

Release 1 of the 2023 U.S. and non-U.S. Catastrophe Event List.

01/31/2024

12/02/2023

P/C
2023-01-CA 2023 Year-End Clarified the instructions for stop loss premiums in the Underwriting Risk - Experience Fluctuation Risk, Other Underwriting Risk and Stop Loss Interrogatories.  06/30/2023 CA
2022-16-CA 2023 Year-End Annual update of the underwriting factors for Comprehensive Medical, Medicare Supplement and Dental & Vision for the investment income adjustment.  06/30/2023 CA
2023-10-IRE 2023 Year-End Adopted a .15 factor for the residual tranches sensitivity test.  06/30/2023 L
2023-09-IRE 2023 Year-End Adopted a factor of .30 for year-end 2023 to then be replaced with a .45 factor beginning at year-end 2024 for residual tranches. 06/30/2023 L
2023-07-L 2023 Year-End Align the CM6 and CM7 Life RBC factors for non-performing commercial & farm mortgages with RBC factors for Sch. A & BA investments. Adopted the same formula for calculating RBC amounts for non-performing & performing residential, commercial and farm mortgages.  04/28/2023 L
2023-06-L 2023 Year-End Structural and instruction changes for the Life C-2 schedule including direct links to the Notes to Financial Statement 04/28/2023 L
2023-05-L 2023 Year-End Removed the dual presentation of the Trend Test. 04/28/2023 L
2023-04-IRE 2023 Year-End Added the residual tranches to the sensitivity test. 04/28/2023 L
2023-03-IRE 2023 Year-End Added a line to isolate residual tranches reported on Schedule BA and the Asset Valuation Reserve. 04/28/2023 L
2023-02-P (MOD)

2023-02-P

2023 Year-End

Modified reserve factors for H/F, WC and CMP.

Annual update of the Line 1 factors for pages PR017 and PR018.

06/30/2023

04/28/2023

P
2022-15-H 2023 Year-End The proposal renumbers the lines on page XR008. 03/23/2023 H
2022-14-H 2023 Year-End This proposal removes the trend test for informational purposes only sentence from the instructions. 03/23/2023 H
2022-13-CA 2023 Year-End This proposal modifies the line references on pages LR019, LR020 (Life) and PR019, PR020 (P/C) for changes to Schedule H, Part 1 in the Annual Statement. 03/23/2023 L, P/C
2022-09-CA (MOD)

2022-09-CA

2023 Year-End The Health and P/C instructions and blank were modified with editorial changes to clarify the examples provided for Indirectly Owned Alien Insurance Affiliates/Subsidiaries and added a footnote to the % Owned column.

This proposal revised the instructions and structure for the Affiliated Investments for all lines of business.

06/30/2023

03/23/2023

H, P/C

CA

2022-12-CR  2023 Year-End This proposal includes the final release of the 2022 U.S. and non-U.S. catastrophe Event list (Jan. 1, 2022-Dec. 31, 2022) 02/03/2023 P/C
2022-11-H 2023 Year-End This proposal updates the annual statement source descriptions and lines of business to align with the Analysis of Operations.  12/14/2022 H
2022-10-H 2023 Year-End This proposal updates the Preferred Stock instructions to delete the reference to the bond factors.  12/14/2022 H
2022-08-CR 2023 Year-End This proposal provides instructions to obtain permission to use the own model on PR027A, PR028B, PR027C, PR027 and PR027INT. 12/14/2022 P/C
2022-07-P 2023 Year-End This proposal modifies the lines of business categories on page PR035. 12/14/2022 P/C
2022-12-CR 2022 Year-End This proposal includes the first release of the 2022 U.S. and non-U.S. catastrophe Event list (Jan. 1, 2022-Sept. 30, 2022) 11/18/2022 P/C
2022-04-CR 2022 Year-End This proposal adds Wildfire Events from 2013-2021 to the U.S. and non-U.S. Catastrophe Event Lists. 08/11/2022 P/C
2022-06-L 2022 Year-End This proposal provides instructional changes and factor changes to page LR025. 06/30/2022 L/F
2022-05-L 2022 Year-End This proposal adds instructions for Line 49.2 on page LR008 to include the total of residual tranches.  06/30/2022 L/F
2022-02-P 2022 Year-End Annual update of the Line 1 factors for pages PR017 and PR018. 06/30/2022 P/C
2022-03-L 2022 Year-End This proposal updates the blank for C2 Life Mortality on pages LR025, LR030, and LR031. 04/28/2022 L/F
2022-01-P 2022 Year-End This proposal removes the trend test for information only footnote on page PR033. 04/28/2022 P/C
2021-17-CR (MOD) 2022 Year-End This is a modified proposal of 2021-17-CR. The modification provides an exemption for smaller companies where the modeling requirements would impose a cost and compliance burden. This exemption is only intended to apply to the information-only reporting for wildfire.  04/28/2022 P/C
2021-14-P 2022 Year-End This proposal removes the embedded 2% operational risk contained in the R3 credit risk component.  03/28/2022 P/C
2021-17-CR 2022 Year-End The proposal adds wildfire as a catastrophe risk period for informational purposes only in the Rcat component.  03/28/2022 P/C
2021-15-CR 2022 Year-End The proposal adds KCC as one of the approved third party commercial vendor catastrophe models.  03/28/2022 P/C
2021-18-H-MOD 2022 Year-End This proposal incorporates benchmarking guidelines into the instructions for the investment income adjustment in the underwriting risk factors for Comprehensive Medical, Medicare Supplement and Dental & Vision lines.  03/28/2022 H
2021-16-CR 2021 Year-End This proposal includes the 2021 U.S. and non-U.S. catastrophe Event list.   01/27/2022 P/C
2021-04-CA 2021 Year-End This proposal includes a .5% investment income adjustment to the the Health Underwriting Risk Factors for Comprehensive Medical, Medicare Supplement and Dental/Vision lines of business across all lines of business.  07/28/2021 CA
2021-07-CA 2021Year-End The proposal updates the Receivables for Securities factors across all lines of business.  06/30/2021 CA
2021-09-H 2021 Year-End BONDS: The proposal incorporates the 20 designation bond factors for the Off-Balance Sheet Collateral and Schedule DL, Bonds and Asset Concentration pages in the health formula.  06/30/2021 H
2021-11-L 2021 Year-End BONDS: The proposal incorporates the 20 designation bond factors for the Off-Balance Sheet Collateral and Schedule DL, Bonds and Asset Concentration pages in the life formula.  06/30/2021 L
2021-08-P 2021 Year-End BONDS: The proposal incorporates the 20 designation bond factors for the Off-Balance Sheet Collateral and Schedule DL, Bonds and Asset Concentration pages in the property and casualty formula.  06/30/2021 P
2021-06-L 2021 Year-End This proposal updates the RBC formula for real estate to reflect updated experience and analysis. 06/30/2021 L
2021-12-L 2021 Year-End This proposal changes the description on Line 15 on page LR016 to allow for the inclusion of amounts held for reciprocal jurisdiction reinsurance.   06/30/2021 L
2021-13-L 2021 Year-End This proposal presents base factors and correlation and guardrail factors for the longevity risk charge.  06/30/2021 L
2021-03-P 2021 Year-End This proposal adds examples as a guide to portray the intent of the R3 ratings instructions.  06/30/2021 P
2021-05-P 2021 Year-End Annual update of the Line 1 factors for pages PR017 and PR018. 06/30/2021 P
2021-03-P 2021 Year-End Added examples as a guide to portray the intent of the R3 ratings instructions. 04/29/2021 P
2021-02-CA 2021 Year-End Clarifies that both incentives and bonuses are to be included in the Managed Care Credit.  04/29/2021 CA
2021-01-L 2021 Year-End The proposal updates the RBC calculation for Real Estate to reflect updated experience and analysis.  04/29/2021 L
2020-11-CR 2021 Year-End The change removed the embedded 3% operational risk component contained in the reinsurance contingent credit risk factor of Rcat.  03/23/2021 P/C
2020-08-CR 2021 Year-End Added instructions to page PR027 Interrogatories that clarify how insurers with no gross exposure to earthquake or hurricane should complete the Interrogatories 03/23/2021 P/C
2020-10-CA 2021 Year-End Modified the structure for the bonds to pull directly from Schedule D, Schedule DA, and Schedule E footnotes for the 20 RBC bond designations.  03/23/2021 H, P/C
2020-07-H 2021 Year-End Split Bonds and Miscellaneous Assets into two separate pages (XR007 and XR008) with all subsequent pages renumbered. 11/19/2020 H
2020-04-H 2021 Year-End The MAX function was added to the formula included in Line 17 of page XR021 in the forecasting spreadsheet.  11/19/2020 H
2020-02-/CA 2021 Year-End Deleted the ACA Fee Sensitivity Test from the Health, Life & Fraternal and Property & Casualty RBC formulas. 11/19/2020 CA
2020-12-CR 2020 Year-End 2020 Cat Event List.  11/19/2020 P
2020-03-L 2020 Year-End Modified the C-3 RBC instructions for 2020 and includes the deletion of instructions specific to 2019 which are not applicable to 2020 and beyond. 08/05/2020 L
2020-05-CA 2020 Year-End Inserted the word "Overview" on the page iv heading and modified the Table of Contents to include only the page heading and deleted references to the individual sections of the Overview. 06/30/2020 CA
2018-19-P 2020 Year-End Modified the instructions to reflect the factors for all uncollateralized reinsurance recoverable from unrated reinsurers to be the same for authorized, unauthorized, certified and reciprocal reinsurance.  06/30/2020 P
2020-01-P 2020 Year-End Annual update of the Line 1 factors for pages PR017 and PR018. 06/30/2020 P
2020-06-L 2020 Year-End Additional instructions for the completion of the longevity risk schedule in the Life and Fraternal RBC formula. 06/30/2020 L
2019-16-CA 2020 Year-End

Increase the number of NAIC Designations for Bonds from the current 6 to 20 in all RBC formulas.

04/30/2020 CA
2019-13-L 2020 Year-End A new schedule and instructions were added to the Life and Fraternal RBC formula for longevity risk.  04/30/2020 L
2019-07-CA 2020 Year-End The RBC Preamble provides a summary of the purpose of RBC including the history, objectives and critical concepts of RBC. 12/08/2019 CA
2019-11-P 2020 Year-End The changes clarified the reinsurance recoverable from individual syndicates of Lloyd's of London that are covered under the Lloyd's Central Fund may utilize the lowest financial strength group rating recieved from an approved rating agency. 12/08/2019 P
2019-12-P 2020 Year-End Eliminated the adjustment for reinsurance penalty for affiliates applicable to Schedule F on page PR038. 12/08/2019 P
2018-17-CA 2020 Year-End The capitation tables included in the forecasting file will be captured electronically. 06/28/2019 CA