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25-5-270
Section 25-5-270 Certain employers authorized to purchase insurance with optional deductibles.
(a) Each insurer issuing a policy under this article shall offer, as a part of the policy
or as an optional endorsement to the policy, deductibles optional to the policyholder for
benefits payable under this article. Deductible amounts offered shall be fully disclosed to
the prospective policyholder in writing in the amount of $100.00, $200.00, $300.00, $400.00,
$500.00, or increments of $500.00 up to a maximum of $2,500.00 per compensable claim. The
policyholder exercising the deductible option shall choose only one deductible amount. (b)
If the policyholder exercises the option and chooses a deductible, the insured employer shall
be liable for the amount of the deductible for benefits paid for each compensable claim of
work injury suffered by an employee. The insurer shall pay all or part of the deductible amount,
whichever is applicable to a compensable claim, to the person or medical...
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27-19-103
Section 27-19-103 Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions in this
section apply throughout this article. (1) APPLICANT. In the case of: a. An individual long-term
care insurance policy, the person who seeks to contract for benefits. b. A group long-term
care insurance policy, the proposed certificate holder. (2) CERTIFICATE. Any certificate issued
under a group long-term care insurance policy, which policy has been delivered or issued for
delivery in this state. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance. (4) GROUP
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE. A long-term care insurance policy which is delivered or issued for
delivery in this state and issued to any of the following: a. One or more employers or labor
organizations, or to a trust or to the trustees of a fund established by one or more employers
or labor organizations, or a combination thereof, for employees or former employees or a combination
thereof, or for members or former members or a...
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27-15-72
Section 27-15-72 Nonforfeiture benefits. (a) In the case of policies issued on or after January
1, 1972, no policy of life insurance, except as set forth in Section 27-15-82, shall be delivered
or issued for delivery in this state unless it shall contain in substance the following provisions,
or corresponding provisions which, in the opinion of the commissioner, are at least as favorable
to the defaulting or surrendering policyholder as are the minimum requirements specified in
this section and are essentially in compliance with Section 27-15-81: (1) That, in the event
of default in any premium payment, the insurer will grant, upon proper request not later than
60 days after the due date of the premium in default, a paid-up nonforfeiture benefit on a
plan stipulated in the policy, effective as of such due date, of such amount as may be specified
in this article. In lieu of such stipulated paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, the insurer may
substitute, upon proper request not later than 60...
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27-19-105
Section 27-19-105 Regulations for long-term care policies; outline of coverage, policy summary,
and monthly report. (a) The commissioner may adopt regulations that include standards for
full and fair disclosure setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for the
sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions
of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents, preexisting
conditions, termination of insurance, continuation or conversion, probationary periods, limitations,
exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement, recurrent conditions,
and definitions of terms. Regulations under this subsection should recognize the developing
and unique nature of long-term care insurance and the distinction between group and individual
long-term insurance policies. (b) No long-term care insurance policy may do any of the following:
(1) Be cancelled, nonrenewed, or otherwise...
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27-20-7
Section 27-20-7 Blanket disability insurance - Payment of benefits. All benefits under any
blanket disability policy shall be payable to the person insured, or to his employer, or to
his designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or to his estate; except, that if the person insured
be a minor or mental incompetent, such benefits may be made payable to his parent, guardian,
or other person actually supporting him, or, if the entire cost of the insurance has been
borne by the employer, such benefits may be made payable to the employer; provided, however,
that the policy may provide that all, or any portion, of any indemnities provided by such
policy on account of hospital, nursing, medical, or surgical services may, at the insurer's
option, be paid directly to the hospital or person rendering such services; but the policy
may not require that the service be rendered by a particular hospital or person. Payment so
made shall discharge the insurer's obligation with respect to the amount of...
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40-18-310
Section 40-18-310 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) CATASTROPHE SAVINGS ACCOUNT. A regular savings account or money market
account established by an insurance policyholder who is a state income taxpayer for residential
property in this state to cover an insurance deductible under an insurance policy for the
taxpayer's legal residence property that covers hurricane, rising floodwaters, or other catastrophic
windstorm event damage or by an individual to cover self-insured losses for the taxpayer's
legal residence from a hurricane, rising floodwaters, or other catastrophic windstorm event.
The account must be labeled as a catastrophe savings account in order to qualify as a catastrophe
savings account as defined in this article. A taxpayer may establish only one catastrophe
savings account and shall specify that the purpose of the account is to cover the amount of
insurance deductibles and other uninsured portions of risks of...
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27-19-22
Section 27-19-22 Optional policy provisions - Relation of earnings to insurance. (a) There
may be a provision as follows: "Relation of Earnings to Insurance: If the total monthly
amount of loss of time benefits promised for the same loss under all valid loss of time coverage
upon the insured, whether payable on a weekly or monthly basis, shall exceed the monthly earnings
of the insured at the time disability commenced or his average monthly earnings for the period
of two years immediately preceding a disability for which claim is made, whichever is the
greater, the insurer will be liable only for such proportionate amount of such benefits under
this policy as the amount of such monthly earnings or such average monthly earnings of the
insured bears to the total amount of monthly benefits for the same loss under all such coverage
upon the insured at the time such disability commences and for the return of such part of
the premiums paid during such two years as shall exceed the pro rata...
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25-5-8
Section 25-5-8 Employers' options to secure payment of compensation. (a) Option to insure risks.
An employer subject to this chapter may secure the payment of compensation under this chapter
by insuring and keeping insured his or her liability in some insurance corporation, association,
organization, insurance association, corporation, or association formed of employers and workers
or formed by a group of employers to insure the risks under this chapter, operating by mutual
assessment or other plans or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the insurance association,
organization, or corporation shall have first had its contract and plan of business approved
in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance of Alabama and have been authorized
by the Department of Insurance to transact the business of workers' compensation insurance
in this state and under the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary,
the obligations of employers under law for...
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27-15-78
Section 27-15-78 Calculations of adjusted premiums by the nonforfeiture net level premium method.
(a) This section shall apply to all policies issued on or after the operative date of this
section as defined herein. Except as provided in subsection (g), the adjusted premiums for
any policy shall be calculated on an annual basis and shall be such uniform percentage of
the respective premiums specified in the policy for each policy year, excluding extra premiums
on a substandard policy and also excluding any uniform annual contract charge or policy fee
specified in the policy in a statement of the method to be used in calculating the cash surrender
values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, that the present value, at the date of issue of
the policy, of all adjusted premiums shall be equal to the sum of: (1) The then present value
of the future guaranteed benefits provided for by the policy. (2) One percent of either the
amount of insurance, if the insurance be uniform in amount, or the...
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27-47-2
Section 27-47-2 Deduction for premiums paid for long-term care insurance contract; treatment
of contract; coverage. (a) The premiums paid for a long-term care insurance contract are deductible
pursuant to Section 40-18-15, if the contract meets the following requirements: (1) Offers
coverage only for qualified long-term care services and benefits incidental to the coverage.
(2) Guaranteed renewal. (3) No cash surrender value. (4) All refunds of premiums and all policyholder
dividends or similar amounts under the contract are to be applied as a reduction in future
premiums or to increase future benefits, except for a refund of premiums on surrender or cancellation
of the policy. (b) For purposes of this chapter, a long-term care insurance contract shall
be treated as an accident or health insurance contract. The amount of coverage under the long-term
care insurance contract shall be equal to or greater than Medicaid coverage for a period of
at least three years. (c) An insurance...
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