AMENDMENT OF REINSURANCE AGREEMENT
1. Introduction
By this agreement (sometimes referred to herein as the or this
"Amendment"), American Capitol Insurance Company (sometimes referred to
herein as the "Company") and Republic-Vanguard Life Insurance Company
(sometimes referred to herein as the "Reinsurer") make certain changes
or amendments ("amendments") to that certain agreement (referred to
hereinafter as the "Reinsurance Agreement") heretofore made between them
which was entitled "Reinsurance Agreement," having an effective date of
January 1, 1998, and was assigned a "Treaty #" of UL98-OCO. The parties
to this Amendment and the parties to the Reinsurance Agreement are the
same. The Reinsurance Agreement is incorporated herein by reference
thereto for all purposes.
2. Purposes of this Amendment
The purposes of this Amendment are as follows:
(a) To decrease the Reinsurer monthly experience refund from 30% to
15%. [3(a) below]
(b) To decrease the monthly "risk charge" from 0.27% to 0.25%. [3(b)
below]
(c) To decrease the "Additional Recapture Amount." [3(c) below]
(d) To transfer the segregated assets supporting the policy reserves
from a "modified" segregated asset account held by the Reinsurer to
a Trust (hereinafter identified) established by the Company to be
held in trust as set forth in the Trust Agreement hereinafter
identified, and to note and agree upon the effect of this Amendment
on language in the Reinsurance Agreement. [3(d) below]
(e) To restate the experience refund calculation as of January 1, 2002,
to incorporate the effect of certain items agreed upon by the
parties for such purpose. [3(e) below]
(f) To confirm that in all other respects the Reinsurance Agreement is
not changed, and that any disagreements and/or claims that the
Company and the Reinsurer have regarding each other, if any, are
resolved and settled. [3(f) below]
3. Amendments
The Reinsurance Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Schedule C attached to and incorporated into the Reinsurance
Agreement and entitled "Experience Refund Formula" has a Section C.01
entitled "Retrocession Option." Immediately following the first sentence
(paragraph), the following paragraph is added:
Upon retrocession as described above, all amounts to be paid by the
Company to the Reinsurer as set forth in Article III and Article V
of the Reinsurance Agreement shall be payable immediately
thereafter by the Reinsurer to the Company, and all amounts to be
paid by the Reinsurer to the Company as set forth in Article III
and Article V of the Reinsurance Agreement shall be payable
immediately thereafter by the Company to the Company, recognizing
that the "retrocession" is in effect adding another coinsurance
step such that the subject policies reinsured by the Reinsurer are,
by retrocession, simultaneously reinsured by the Company.
Following immediately thereafter in said Section C.01, the sentence
reads as follows:
"Upon the retrocession described above, the Company agrees to pay
the Reinsurer a monthly experience refund, payable as part of the
first monthly settlement for which the following formula experience
produces a positive amount, in the amount of 30% of such positive
amount and during the subsequent 120 calendar months that then
produce a positive amount in the amount of 30% of such then
positive amount."
Said sentence is hereby deleted and replaced with the following:
"Upon the retrocession described above, the Company agrees to pay
the Reinsurer a monthly experience refund, payable as part of the
first monthly settlement for which the following formula experience
produces a positive amount, in the amount of 15% of such positive
amount and during the subsequent 120 calendar months that then
produce a positive amount in the amount of 15% of such then
positive amount. Beginning immediately after the retrocession
described above, said amount of 15% of such positive amount as it
accrues each month may be withdrawn by the Beneficiary from the
Trust within ten (10) days following the completion of the
experience refund calculation as set forth in Section C.02, and 85%
of such positive amount as it accrues each month may be withdrawn
by the Grantor from the Trust within ten (10) days following the
completion of the experience refund calculation as set forth in
Section C.02. Upon the retrocession described above, for any month
in which the experience refund calculation results in a negative
amount (or 'loss' for that month), within ten (10) days following
the completion of the experience refund calculation as set forth in
Section 3.02, the Company shall pay cash into the Trust equal to
the amount of such negative experience, in order to establish an
experience refund carryforward equal to zero for the subject
month."
(b) Schedule C attached to and incorporated into the Reinsurance
Agreement and entitled "Experience Refund Formula" has a Section C.04
entitled "Maximum Reinsurer's Profit Retention" in which the sentence
therein reads as follows:
"The Reinsurer agrees to limit the maximum profit it retains from
the earning on the Policies, if any, to an amount equal to 0.27% of
the negative experience carryforward, as defined in Schedule C.02,
as of the end of such month for which this calculation is being
made, commencing with the month ending January 31, 1998 and for
every month thereafter for the duration of this Agreement."
Said sentence in Section C.04 is hereby deleted and replaced with the
following sentence:
"The Reinsurer agrees to limit the maximum profit it retains from
the earning on the Policies, if any, to an amount equal to 0.25% of
the negative experience carryforward, as defined in Schedule C.02,
as of the end of such month for which this calculation is being
made, commencing with the month ending April 30, 2001 and for every
month thereafter for the duration of this Agreement."
(c) Schedule E attached to and incorporated into the Reinsurance
Agreement and entitled "Additional Recapture Amount" has two paragraphs,
and the first paragraph, consisting of one sentence, reads as follows:
"In the event the Company elects to recapture the Policies prior to
the date falling ten (10) years after the date on which the
Negative Experience Refund Carryforward first reaches zero, other
than for a reason specified in Article IX, the amount due from the
Reinsurer to the Company as part of the terminal monthly cash
settlement specified in paragraph 9.01(b) shall be reduced by the
amount listed below (the "Additional Recapture Amount"), which
shall be calculated as $1,750,000 less the sum of the Retained
Experience Profits, as defined below, received by the Reinsurer
prior to the effective date of such recapture."
Said sentence in Section C.04 is hereby deleted and replaced with the
following 2 sentences:
"In the event the Company elects to recapture the Policies prior to
the date on which the Negative Experience Refund Carryforward first
reaches zero, other than for a reason specified in Article IX, the
amount due from the Reinsurer to the Company as part of the
terminal monthly cash settlement specified in paragraph 9.01(b)
shall be reduced by $1,000,000. However, in the event the Company
elects to recapture the Policies after the date on which the
Negative Experience Refund Carryforward first reaches zero and
prior to the date falling ten (10) years after the date on which
the Negative Experience Refund Carryforward first reaches zero,
other than for a reason specified in Article IX, the amount due
from the Reinsurer to the Company as part of the terminal monthly
cash settlement specified in paragraph 9.01(b) shall be reduced by
the amount listed below (the "Additional Recapture Amount"), which
shall be calculated as $875,000 less the sum of the Retained
Experience Profits, as defined below, received by the Reinsurer
prior to the effective date of such recapture."
(d) The parties agree that the segregated assets (to be modified as
hereinafter set forth) that have been held by the Reinsurer in a
segregated assets account as set forth in Section 3.01 of the
Reinsurance Agreement will be transferred to a Trust established by the
Company (hereinafter referred as the "Trust") and held, managed and
distributed in accordance with the agreement by which the Trust is
established (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust Agreement"), a copy
of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3(d)-1 and incorporated herein by
reference thereto for all purposes. Simultaneously, the Company shall
establish an account payable by the Company to the Reinsurer in an
amount which shall be FORTY ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND,
SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY SEVEN DOLLARS ($41,340,797). Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in the Reinsurance Agreement, with
reference to the bonds shown to exist in the segregated assets account
as of December 31, 2001 (as shown on Exhibit 3(d)-2 attached hereto) the
Reinsurer shall remove all bonds shown on Exhibit 3(d) - 2 which are
indicated thereon by a check-xxxx, next to which are initials of the
individuals signing this Amendment on behalf of the parties, and in lieu
of such bonds, the Reinsurer shall substitute cash in an amount equal to
the book value of such bonds as of December 31, 2001. There shall be no
gains or losses recognized in the Net Investment Income as defined in
Section 10.16 (as amended below) of the Reinsurance Agreement as a
result of removing said bonds, or in respect to any bonds removed during
the month of December, 2001, such that no gains or losses will be
recognized in the calculation of the experience refund formula as set
forth in Schedule C of the Reinsurance Agreement as a result of removing
said bonds. Exhibit 3(d)-3 sets forth the assets to be transferred by
the Reinsurer to the Trust, setting forth therein the book value of all
such assets as of the date of transfer, which is incorporated herein by
reference thereto for all purposes. Regarding the bonds included in the
assets transferred by the Reinsurer to the Trust, all interest payments
received thereon by the Beneficiary for the month of January, 2002, and
thereafter, shall be paid by the Reinsurer to the Trust promptly
following receipt of same. In view of the agreement effected by this
Amendment to redefine the segregated assets as stated above and to
transfer the segregated assets from a segregated assets account held by
the Reinsurer to a Trust established by the Company as stated above, the
parties note and agree upon the following changes in the Reinsurance
Agreement that are affected by the aforesaid segregated assets change:
(i) Section 3.01 of the Reinsurance Agreement contemplates a payment by
the Company to the Reinsurer on the Effective Date of the Reinsurance
Agreement, and that the payment be held, invested and managed by the
Reinsurer as a segregated asset in a "segregated asset account" as set
forth therein. A sentence contained in Section 3.01 states: "Such
segregated asset account shall be maintained for the duration of this
agreement and the assets housed therein, as defined herein, shall be
separate and distinct from any other assets of the Reinsurer." The
parties acknowledge that Reinsurer has complied with the requirement
stated in said sentence, but hereby agree that the segregated assets
(modified as set forth above) shall be transferred to the Trust, and
that thereafter such segregated assets shall be held, managed, and
distributed in trust in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Trust Agreement. Reinsurer agrees to commence the transfer of said
assets no later than January 18, 2002, and to complete said transfer
with commercially reasonable diligence. Further, Reinsurer shall make a
wire transfer of the cash portion of the segregated assets account to
the Trust on January 18, 2002.
(ii) Sections 3.02 of the Reinsurance Agreement recognizes that the
Reinsurer paid a consideration to the Company as stated therein.
Sections 3.03 through 3.09 of the Reinsurance Agreement contain
requirements regarding amounts to be paid by the Company to the
Reinsurer, and amounts to be paid by the Reinsurer to the Company, and
Section 5.03 provides for monthly cash settlements relating to said
payables. In addition to the amounts to be paid by the Grantor and the
Beneficiary to each other as set forth in Sections 3.03 through 3.09,
and Section 5.03, as aforesaid, the following shall be included in the
monthly cash settlement: (A) the Grantor shall pay to the Beneficiary
each month the Net Investment Income (as defined in Section 10.16 as
amended herein) on the Trust Assets by leaving same in the Trust for the
benefit of the Beneficiary as it is collected by the Trustee, and (B) on
behalf of the Beneficiary, the Trustee shall pay to the Grantor each
month the amount of the investment expenses calculated pursuant to
Section 10.16 as amended herein, which will include the fees incurred by
Grantor for an outside investment management service, subject to the
limitation set forth in said Section 10.16. The parties hereby agree
that any payments to be made by the Company to the Reinsurer following
December 31, 2001, shall instead be made by the Company to the Trust,
and any payments to be made by the Reinsurer to the Company shall
instead be made by the Trust to the Reinsurer, as set forth in the Trust
Agreement. Except for the changes stated in the immediately preceding
two sentences, no change is made in said Sections 3.02 through 3.09.
(iii) Section 5.02 of the Reinsurance Agreement is deleted, and in
its place the reporting requirement is stated in the Trust Agreement.
(iv) Section 10.16 of the Reinsurance Agreement (entitled "Net
Investment Income") reads as follows:
"For purposes of this Agreement the term Net Investment Income as
used for the experience refund calculation in Schedule C.03 shall
mean the result of: a) the amount of gross investment income earned
on the segregated asset account during the month calculated in a
manner consistent with the calculation of such amounts in Column 7,
of Exhibit 2 of the Company's NAIC convention blank, plus, b) any
realized capital gains for such month on such assets or (less) any
realized capital losses for such month on such assets, less, c) the
investment expenses as calculated for Exhibit 2, lines 11 and 12 of
the Company's NAIC Convention Blank on such assets (except that
such investment expenses shall not exceed .125% on an annual basis
of the average balance of the segregated asset account defined in
Schedule D), plus, d) the amount of investment income paid to the
Reinsurer by the Company on the outstanding policy loans on the
policies as defined in 3.08."
Said Section 10.16 of the Reinsurance Agreement is hereby deleted and
replaced by the following Section 10.16:
"For purposes of this Agreement the term Net Investment Income as
used for the experience refund calculation in Schedule C.03 shall
mean the result of: (a) the amount of gross investment income
earned on the Trust assets during the month calculated in a manner
consistent with the calculation of such amounts in Column 7, of
Exhibit 2 of the Company's NAIC convention blank, plus (b) any
realized capital gains for such month on such assets, less (c) any
realized capital losses for such month on such assets, less (d) the
investment expenses as calculated for Exhibit 2, lines 11 and 12 of
the Company's NAIC Convention Blank on such assets (except that
such investment expenses shall not exceed .125% on a quarterly
basis of the average balance of the Trust assets, plus (e) the
amount of investment income paid to the Reinsurer by the Company on
the outstanding policy loans on the policies as defined in 3.08."
(v) Schedule D of the Reinsurance Agreement contemplates that the
segregated assets are to be housed in a segregated asset account, as
provided in Section 3.01 of the Reinsurance Agreement (and amended
hereinabove in Section 3(e) of this Amendment), but the parties hereby
agree that the segregated assets (modified as set forth above) shall be
transferred to the Trust as set forth in Section 3(e) of this Amendment.
Said Schedule D is hereby deleted.
(vi) Schedule F of the Reinsurance Agreement sets forth investment
guidelines applicable to the management and investment of the segregated
assets by the Reinsurer. The parties acknowledge that, in accordance
with Section 3(e) of this Amendment, said segregated assets (modified as
set forth above) are to be transferred to the Trust to be managed by the
Company, and that the Trust Agreement contains all investment guidelines
applicable to the management of the assets held in the Trust.
Accordingly, Schedule F is hereby deleted.
(vii) The Company shall establish on its books, beginning at the
time of the completion of the transfer by Reinsurer of the segregated
assets to the Trust as contemplated by the first paragraph of this
Section (e), and maintain thereafter as of the end of each month, a
liability to reflect a payable to the Reinsurer equal to: the Reserves
as defined in 10.01 as of the end of such month for which the
calculation is made, less the outstanding policy loans as defined in
3.08 as of the end of such month for which the calculation is made, less
the amount of due and deferred asset (net of the advance premium
liability) as of the end of such month for which the calculation is
made, less the absolute value of the negative experience refund
carryforward, as defined in C.02, if any. The Reinsurer shall be
entitled to reflect an asset equal to the same amount as a receivable
from the Company.
(e) The parties have agreed to adjustments affecting the experience
refund calculations through December 31, 2001, relating to (i) the
decrease in the "risk charge" effective May, 2001, and (ii) the sale of
the Xerox bonds in May, 2001, and (iii) interest on the cash portion of
the segregated assets, as set forth in this subsection, which result in
a negative experience refund carryforward amount as of November 30,
2001, equal to THREE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED SEVEN, SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE
DOLLARS ($3,907,681). It is hereby stipulated that, as of December 31,
2001, there are no further adjustments affecting the negative experience
refund carryforward amount and that said amount is correct as of January
1, 2002. Net Investment Income for December, 2001, relating to the cash
portion of the segregated assets shall take into account the removal of
certain bonds as provided in Section 3(d) above. The Reinsurer shall be
entitled to the income on said removed bonds for the month of December,
and cash substituted therefor shall be deemed to have been in the form
of cash during all of December, 2001, which, for the purpose of the
calculation of Net Investment Income for December, 2001, shall be
credited with interest thereon at the rates that correspond to the rates
of interest attributable to said removed bonds; the amount of cash
replacing the value of the Xerox bonds that were sold shall be credited
with interest thereon at the rate of said Xerox bonds for purpose of
calculating the Net Investment Income for the month of December, 2001;
and the balance of the cash portion of the segregated assets account
shall bear interest at the rate of 3.1% for the purpose of calculating
the Net Investment Income for the month of December, 2001. For the
period beginning January 1, 2002, to the date on which the Trust
receives the subject cash, the same interest calculations as stated in
the immediately preceding sentence shall be added to the cash portion of
the funds to be transferred by the Reinsurer to the Trust as identified
on Exhibit 3(d)-3 attached hereto.
(f) The parties acknowledge that they have discussed issues regarding
whether or not the Reinsurer has violated provisions of the Reinsurance
Agreement relating to Schedule F, and in connection with such
discussions, they agreed to make the amendments to the Reinsurance
Agreement contained in this Amendment. Without admitting that there have
been any violations by either party of any provision whatsoever of the
Reinsurance Agreement, the parties hereby agree that any disputes or
disagreements that may have arisen between them prior to the effective
date hereof are hereby resolved, compromised, and settled.
4. Counterparts
This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, and the counterparts shall constitute
but one and the same agreement, which shall be sufficiently evidenced by
any one counterpart.
5. Effective Date
The Effective Date of this Amendment is January 1, 2002.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amendment to be
executed and delivered to each other by their duly authorized officers.
American Capitol Insurance Company
By: /s/Xxxxxxx X. Guest
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Xxxxxxx X. Guest, Chairman
Republic-Vanguard Life Insurance Company
By: /s/Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxx Xxxxxx, Chief Executive Officer
