In an assigned risk plan, how is the amount of business assigned to each insurer determined?

• A. Random lottery among licensed insurers.
• B. Based on the number of policies currently writing.
• C. Proportional to their market share in the voluntary market.
• D. First-come, first-served basis.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is that allocations in an assigned risk plan are made in proportion to each insurer’s share of the voluntary workers’ compensation market. This means an insurer that writes a larger portion of voluntary premiums gets a larger portion of the plan’s assigned business. It aligns the burden of the high-risk pool with each insurer’s actual market presence, promoting fairness and financial stability for the plan. It isn’t determined by random lottery, by the number of policies, or by who acts first, which would misalign allocations from real market capacity.