| 3.__Determination of assessment.__The board shall make  | 
| reasonable efforts to ensure that each covered person is counted  | 
| only once with respect to an assessment.__For that purpose, the  | 
| board shall require each insurer that obtains excess or stop loss  | 
| insurance to include in its count of covered persons all  | 
| individuals whose coverage is insured, in whole or in part,  | 
| through excess or stop loss coverage.__The board shall allow a  | 
| reinsurer to exclude from its number of covered persons those who  | 
| have been counted by the primary insurer or by the primary  | 
| reinsurer or primary excess or stop loss insurer for the purpose  | 
| of determining its assessment under this subsection.__The board  | 
| may verify each insurer's assessment based on annual statements  | 
| and other reports determined to be necessary by the board.__The  | 
| board may use any reasonable method of estimating the number of  | 
| covered persons of an insurer if the specific number is unknown. |