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Version status: Entered into force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 18 January 2015 - onwards
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Article 100 Simplified calculation of the capital requirement for income protection disability-morbidity risk

Where Article 88 is complied with, insurance and reinsurance undertakings may calculate the capital requirement for income protection disability-morbidity risk as follows:

where with respect to insurance and reinsurance policies with a positive capital at risk:

(a) CAR1 denotes the total capital at risk, meaning the sum over all contracts of the higher of zero and the difference between the following amounts:

(i) the sum of:

- the amount that the insurance or reinsurance undertaking would currently pay in the event of the death or disability of the persons insured under the contract after deduction of the amounts recoverable from reinsurance contracts and special purpose vehicles;

- the expected present value of amounts not covered in the previous indent that the undertaking would pay in the future in the event of the immediate death or disability of the persons insured under the contract after deduction of the amounts recoverable from reinsurance contracts and special purpose vehicles;

(ii) the best estimate of the corresponding obligations after deduction of the amounts recoverable form reinsurance contracts and special purpose vehicles;

(b) CAR2 denotes the total capital at risk as defined in point (a) after 12 months;

(c) d1 denotes the expected average disability-morbidity rate during the following 12 months weighted by the sum insured;