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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