AGENCY:
Departmental Offices, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
ACTION:
Data Collection.
SUMMARY:
Pursuant to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, as amended (TRIA), insurers that participate in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP or Program) are directed to submit information for the 2021 TRIP Data Call, which covers the reporting period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. Participating insurers are required to register and report information in a series of forms approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). All insurers writing commercial property and casualty insurance in lines subject to TRIP, subject to certain exceptions identified in this notice, must respond to this data call no later than May 15, 2021.
DATES:
Participating insurers must register and submit data no later than May 15, 2021.
ADDRESSES:
Participating insurers will register through a website that has been established for this data call. After registration, insurers will receive data collection forms through a secure file transfer portal, and they will submit the requested data through the same secure portal. Participating insurers can register for the 2021 TRIP Data Call at https://tripsection111data.com. Additional information about the data call, including sample data collection forms and instructions, can be found on the TRIP website at https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service/federal-insurance-office/terrorism-risk-insurance-program/annual-data-collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard Ifft, Senior Insurance Regulatory Policy Analyst, Federal Insurance Office, Room 1410, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20220, (202) 622-2922; or Lindsey Baldwin, Senior Insurance Regulatory Policy Analyst, Federal Insurance Office, Room 1410, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20220, (202) 622-3220. Persons who have difficulty hearing or speaking may access these numbers via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
TRIA created the Program within the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to address disruptions in the market for terrorism risk insurance, to help ensure the continued availability and affordability of commercial property and casualty insurance for terrorism risk, and to allow for the private market to stabilize and build insurance capacity to absorb any future losses for terrorism events. The Program has been reauthorized on a number of occasions, and was most recently extended until December 31, 2027. TRIA requires the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to collect certain insurance data and information from insurers on an annual basis regarding their participation in the Program. TRIA also requires the Secretary to prepare a biennial study on the competitiveness of small insurers in the terrorism risk insurance marketplace (Small Insurer Study). The next Small Insurer Study must be submitted to Congress by June 30, 2021. The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is authorized to assist the
Public Law 107-297, 116 Stat. 2322, codified at 15 U.S.C. 6701, note. Because the provisions of TRIA (as amended) appear in a note, instead of particular sections, of the United States Code, the provisions of TRIA are identified by the sections of the law.
Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019, Public Law 116-94, 133 Stat. 2534.
TRIA, sec. 104(h)(1). Treasury regulations also address the annual data collection requirement. See 31 CFR 50.51, 50.54.
TRIA, sec.108(h).
Secretary in the administration of the Program, including conducting the annual data call and preparing reports and studies required under TRIA.
FIO will be using the same data collection forms, without material changes, that were used during the 2020 TRIP Data Call. FIO solicited public comment concerning these forms, after their use during the 2020 TRIP Data Call, and received no comments objecting to the continued use of these forms or proposing further revisions to the forms. The forms were then submitted for approval to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), pursuant to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act. The data collection forms have now been approved for use by OMB under Control Number 1505-0257 for a period ending November 30, 2023.
85 FR 41676 (July 10, 2020).
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management & Budget, OMB Control No. 1505-0257, https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202009-1505-002.
II. Elements of 2021 TRIP Data Call
For purposes of the 2021 TRIP Data Call, FIO, state insurance regulators, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will again use the consolidated data call mechanism first developed for use in the 2018 TRIP Data Call. This approach relies on four joint reporting templates, to be completed by Small Insurers, Non-Small Insurers, Captive Insurers, and Alien Surplus Lines Insurers, each as defined below. The use of joint reporting templates is designed to satisfy the objectives of both Treasury and state insurance regulators, while also reducing burden on participating insurers. State insurance regulators or the NAIC will provide separate notification regarding the reporting of information into the state reporting portal, including any reporting requirements to state insurance regulators that are distinct from the Treasury requirements. Insurers subject to the consolidated data call that are part of a group will report on a group basis, while those that are not part of a group will report on an individual company basis.
A. Reporting of Workers' Compensation Information
The TRIP Data Calls request certain information relating to workers' compensation insurance. For the 2021 TRIP Data Call, Treasury will again work with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (California WCIRB), and the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) to provide workers' compensation data relating to premium and payroll information on behalf of participating insurers, either directly or through other workers' compensation rating bureaus. The data aggregator used by Treasury will provide such insurers with reporting templates that do not require them to report this workers' compensation data. Reporting insurers that write only workers' compensation policies are still required to register for the 2021 TRIP Data Call and provide general company information and data related to private reinsurance. The data received from NCCI, the California WCIRB, and the NYCIRB will be merged with the information provided by the insurers.
B. Reporting Templates
There are no material changes to the reporting templates used in the 2020 TRIP Data Call. Each category of insurer is required to complete the same worksheets that they completed in the 2020 TRIP Data Call. The same reporting exceptions apply this year as applied in the 2020 TRIP Data Call, as specified further below in the discussions for each category of insurer.
There is a new modeled loss scenario identified in the Reinsurance Worksheet that will be used in connection with the modeled loss questions (which have not changed from those posed in prior data collections). The modeled loss questions must be completed by Non-Small Insurers, Alien Surplus Lines Insurers, and Captive Insurers. As in prior years, Small Insurers complete a separate Reinsurance Worksheet that does not contain modeled loss questions.
Various worksheets used in the 2021 TRIP Data Call seek certain information relating to workers' compensation insurance. NCCI, the California WCIRB, and the NYCIRB will complete the workers' compensation elements of these worksheets on behalf of reporting insurers. Further information concerning the reporting templates for each category of insurer, and the individual worksheets contained within each, can be found in the instructions for the reporting templates for each category of insurer. The individual reporting templates and worksheets will also be addressed in the training webinars discussed below.
For the 2021 TRIP Data Call, an insurer will qualify as a Small Insurer if it had both 2019 policyholder surplus of less than $1 billion and 2019 direct earned premiums in TRIP- eligible lines of insurance of less than $1 billion. Of this group, Small Insurers with TRIP- eligible direct earned premiums of less than $10 million in 2020 will be exempt from the 2021 TRIP Data Call. Neither Captive Insurers nor Alien Surplus Lines Insurers are eligible for this reporting exemption. Insurers defined as Small Insurers for the 2021 TRIP Data Call will report the same information to Treasury and to state insurance regulators (in each case on a group basis), except as state insurance regulators may separately direct for purposes of the state data call.
Small Insurers are defined in 31 CFR 50.4(z) as insurers (or an affiliated group of insurers) whose policyholder surplus for the immediately preceding year is less than five times the Program Trigger for the current year, and whose direct earned premiums in TRIP-eligible lines for the preceding year are also less than five times the Program Trigger for the current year. Accordingly, for the 2021 TRIP Data Call (covering the 2020 calendar year), an insurer qualifies as a Small Insurer if its 2019 policyholder surplus and 2019 direct earned premiums are less than five times the 2020 Program Trigger of $200 million.
Individual insurers with less than $10 million in direct earned premiums in TRIP-eligible lines that are part of a larger group must still report as part of the group as a whole if the group's direct earned premiums in these lines are over $10 million.
The Non-Small Insurer template will be completed by insurance groups (or individual insurers not affiliated with a group) that are not subject to reporting on the Captive Insurer or Alien Surplus Lines Insurer reporting templates, and had either a 2019 policyholder surplus of greater than $1 billion or 2019 direct earned premiums in TRIP-eligible lines of insurance equal to or greater than $1 billion. Insurers defined as Non-Small Insurers for the 2021 TRIP Data Call will report the same information to Treasury and to state insurance regulators (in each case on a group basis), except as state insurance regulators may separately direct for purposes of the state data call.
Captive Insurers are defined in 31 CFR 50.4(g) as insurers licensed under the captive insurance laws or regulations of any state. Captive Insurers that wrote policies in TRIP-eligible lines of insurance during the reporting period (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020) are required to register and submit data to Treasury, unless they did not provide their insureds with any terrorism risk insurance subject to the Program.
Alien Surplus Lines Insurers are defined in 31 CFR 50.4(o)(1)(i)(B) as insurers not licensed or admitted to engage in the business of providing primary or excess insurance in any state, but that are eligible surplus line insurers listed on the NAIC Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers. Alien Surplus Lines Insurers that are part of a larger group classified as a Non-Small Insurer or a Small Insurer should report to Treasury as part of the group, using the appropriate template. Therefore, the Alien Surplus Lines Insurer template should be used only by an Alien Surplus Lines Insurer that is not part of a larger group subject to the 2021 TRIP Data Call.
C. Supplemental Reference Documents
Treasury will continue to make available on the TRIP data collection website documents providing a complete ZIP code listing for areas subject to reporting on the Geographic Exposures (Nationwide) Worksheet, as well as several hypothetical policy reporting scenarios.
D. Training Webinars
As in prior years, Treasury will hold four separate training sessions corresponding to the four reporting templates that will be used by insurers (Small Insurers, Non-Small Insurers, Captive Insurers, and Alien Surplus Lines Insurers). The webinars will be held on April 15 and April 16, 2021 to assist reporting insurers in responding to the 2021 TRIP Data Call, with each webinar focusing on a specific reporting template. Specific times and details concerning participation in the webinars will be made available on the TRIP data collection website, and recordings of each webinar will be made available on the website following each training session.
III. 2021 TRIP Data Call
Treasury, through an insurance statistical aggregator, will accept group or insurer registration forms through https://tripsection111data.com. Registration is mandatory for all insurers participating in the 2021 TRIP Data Call. Upon registration, the aggregator will transmit individualized data collection forms (in Excel format) to the reporting group or insurer via a secure file transfer portal. The reporting group or insurer may transmit a complete data submission via the same portal using either the provided Excel forms or a .csv file.
Specifications for submission of data using a .csv file will be provided to the insurer by the aggregator.
Copies of the instructions and data collection forms are available on Treasury's website in read-only format. Reporting insurers will obtain the fillable reporting forms directly from the data aggregator only after registering for the data collection process.
Reporting insurers are required to register and submit complete data to Treasury no later than May 15, 2021. Because of the statutory reporting deadline for Treasury's 2021 Small Insurer Study to Congress, no extensions will be granted. Reporting insurers can ask the data aggregator questions about registration, form completion, and submission at tripsection111data@iso.com. Reporting insurers may also submit questions to the Treasury contacts listed above. Questions regarding submission of data to state insurance regulators should be directed to the appropriate state insurance regulator or the NAIC.
All data submitted to the aggregator is subject to the confidentiality and data protection provisions of TRIA and the Program Rules, as well as to section 552 of title 5, United States Code, including any exceptions thereunder. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521), the information collected through the web portal has been approved by OMB under Control Number 1505-0257. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.
Dated: March 9, 2021.
Steven E. Seitz,
Director, Federal Insurance Office.
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