27-17-16
Section 27-17-16 Valuation of life insurance reserve liabilities for burial insurance policies; increase in amount of insurance; minimum standards for valuation; notice to commissioner as to change in valuation standards; increase in retail value, nonforfeiture value, and cash surrender value; construction with other laws. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, any authorized insurer who issues or has heretofore issued "burial insurance" in this state shall value the life insurance reserve liabilities for such policies (hereinafter "burial reserves") in accordance with the provisions of Section 27-36-7. (b) An insurer shall increase the amount of insurance on which its burial reserves are based, not to exceed the retail value of such benefits as stated in the policies, when appropriate to reflect an increase in the costs to the insurer of providing the policy benefits. When an insurer shall increase the amount of insurance for this purpose, it shall be permitted to change the assumed...
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27-36A-3
Section 27-36A-3 Reserve valuation. (a) Policies and contracts issued prior to the operative date of the valuation manual. (1) The commissioner shall annually value, or cause to be valued, the reserve liabilities, hereinafter called reserves, for all outstanding life insurance policies and annuity and pure endowment contracts of every life insurance company doing business in this state issued on or after January 1, 1972, and prior to the operative date of the valuation manual. In calculating reserves, the commissioner may use group methods and approximate averages for fractions of a year or otherwise. In lieu of the valuation of the reserves required of any foreign or alien insurer, the commissioner may accept any valuation made, or caused to be made, by the insurance supervisory official of any state or other jurisdiction when valuation complies with the minimum standard provided in this chapter. (2) The provisions set forth in Sections 27-36A-5, 27-36A-6, 27-36A-7, 27-36A-8,...
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27-34-37
Section 27-34-37 Annual statements - Valuation of certificates; reserves. (a) As a part of the annual statement required under Section 27-34-36, each society shall, on or before March 1, file with the commissioner a valuation of its certificates in force on December 31 last preceding; provided, however, that the commissioner may, in his discretion for cause shown, extend the time for filing such valuation for not more than two calendar months. Such report of valuation shall show, as reserve liabilities, the difference between the present midyear value of the promised benefits provided in the certificates of such society in force and the present midyear value of the future net premiums as the same are in practice actually collected, not including therein any value for the right to make extra assessments and not including any amount by which the present midyear value of future net premiums exceeds the present midyear value of promised benefits on individual certificates. At the option of...
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27-30-17
Section 27-30-17 Contracts - Annual valuation - Benefits, aid, or services other than cash. (a) The commissioner shall each year cause all outstanding contracts or policies of every mutual aid association to be carefully valued as of December 31 of the preceding year at 40 percent of the retail value of the benefits, aid, or services provided under the terms of its contracts or policies or at the average wholesale cost of the funeral supplies, benefits, aid, and services so provided for, whichever amount is the greater, as shown by the number of contracts or policies in force according to the books and records of the association, and shall at the time compute the net value of all such outstanding contracts or policies of every such association in the following manner: (1) On all outstanding contracts or policies issued prior to September 16, 1953, the commissioner shall compute the net value thereof by the two following separate methods: a. Method No. 1: On the basis of $1.50 for each...
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27-36-5
Section 27-36-5 Active life reserve for disability insurance. For all disability insurance policies, the insurer shall maintain an active life reserve which shall place a sound value on its liabilities under such policies and be not less than the reserve according to appropriate standards set forth in regulations issued by the commissioner and, in no event, less in the aggregate than the pro rata gross unearned premiums for such policies. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §741.)...
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27-36A-8
Section 27-36A-8 Reserve valuation method - Life insurance and endowment benefits. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27-36A-9, 27-36A-12, and 27-36A-14, reserves according to the commissioners reserve valuation method, for the life insurance and endowment benefits of policies providing for a uniform amount of insurance and requiring the payment of uniform premiums, shall be the excess, if any, of the present value, at the date of valuation, of the future guaranteed benefits provided for by the policies over the then present value of any future modified net premiums therefor. The modified net premiums for a policy shall be the uniform percentage of the respective contract premiums for the benefits, excluding extra premiums on a substandard policy, that the present value, at the date of issue of the policy, of all modified net premiums shall be equal to the sum of the then present value of the benefits provided for by the policy and the excess of subdivision (1) over...
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27-17-1
Section 27-17-1 Applicability of chapter; "burial insurance" defined. (a) This chapter applies only to burial insurance policies. (b) For the purposes of this title, "burial insurance" is that form of life insurance under which: (1) Benefits are provided in the form of merchandise and services incident to the burial of the insured or the furnishing of a monument to the insured; (2) The specified retail value of such merchandise and services does not exceed $1,500.00; and (3) The words "burial policy," "vault policy," "monument policy," or words of similar import are printed on the policy as a part of its description. (Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §392.)...
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27-36A-5
Section 27-36A-5 Computation of minimum standard. (a) Except as provided in Sections 27-36A-6, 27-36A-7 and 27-36A-14, the minimum standard for the valuation of all the policies and contracts issued prior to May 28, 1996, shall be that provided by the laws in effect immediately prior to May 28, 1996. (b) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27-36A-6, 27-36A-7, and 27-36A-14, the minimum standard for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued on or after May 28, 1996, shall be the commissioners reserve valuation method defined in Sections 27-36A-8, 27-36A-9, 27-36A-12, and 27-36A-14, three and one-half percent interest, or, in the case of life insurance policies and contracts, other than annuity and pure endowment contracts, issued on or after August 23, 1976, four percent interest for the policies issued prior to July 30, 1979, and five and one-half percent interest for single premium life insurance policies and four and one-half percent interest for all other policies...
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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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27-36A-4
Section 27-36A-4 Actuarial opinion of reserves. (a) Actuarial opinion prior to the operative date of the valuation manual as defined by Section 27-36A-15. (1) GENERAL. Every life insurance company doing business in this state shall annually submit the opinion of a qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by the commissioner by regulation are computed appropriately, are based on assumptions which satisfy contractual provisions, are consistent with prior reported amounts, and comply with applicable laws of this state. The commissioner, by regulation, shall define the specifics of this opinion and add any other items deemed to be necessary to its scope. (2) ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS OF RESERVES AND ASSETS SUPPORTING RESERVES. a. Every life insurance company, except as exempted pursuant to regulation, shall also annually include in the opinion required by subdivision (1) an opinion of the same qualified...
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