E Relating to insurance; regulating investments in replication transactions; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to authorize domestic insurers upon written application to include additional affiliated insurance companies in consolidated or combined audited financial statements, requiring foreign insurers to obtain prior written authorization from the home state to submit applications for authority to file consolidated or combined statements; regulating annuities purchased to finance structured settlement agreements; clarifying the inclusion of funding agreements issued under life insurance policies as loss claims for liquidation purposes; expanding the authority of life insurers to issue funding agreements relating to institutional programs and specifying a minimum issue amount; removing a certain restriction on life insurance company common stock investments and expanding the authority of the companies to invest in certain securities and foreign stock; authorizing and providing for domestic mutual life insurance companies to establish guaranty funds for investment purposes, specifying certain rights of certificate holders; reducing the threshold for employer written workers compensation premiums for insurer use of rates or rating plans not subject to disapproval and eliminating the annual adjustment requirement (ra, ja)