§ 7208

(a) (1) Each small employer carrier desiring to operate as a risk-assuming carrier shall make application to the Commissioner within 30 days of January 4, 1993 to operate as a risk-assuming carrier, pursuant to § 7209 of this title. (2) The Commissioner may permit a carrier to modify its status at any time for good cause shown. (3) The Commissioner shall establish an application process for small employer carriers seeking to change their status under this subsection. (b) A reinsuring carrier that applies and is approved to operate as a risk-assuming carrier shall not be permitted to continue to reinsure any health benefit plan with the Program. Such a carrier shall pay a prorated assessment based upon business issued as a reinsuring carrier for any portion of the year that the business was reinsured.68 Del. Laws, c. 340, § 1;