Alabama Code 27-15-20. Annuity and pure endowment contract provisions – Misstatement of age or sex
Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-15-20
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
In an annuity or pure endowment contract, other than a reversionary, survivorship, or group annuity, there shall be a provision that if the age or sex of the person, or persons, upon whose life, or lives, the contract is made, or of any of them, has been misstated, the amount payable or benefits accruing under the contract shall be such as the stipulated payment, or payments, to the insurer would have purchased according to the correct age or sex and that if the insurer shall make, or has made, any overpayment, or overpayments, on account of any such misstatement the amount thereof, with interest at the rate to be specified in the contract but not exceeding six percent per annum, may be charged against the current or next succeeding payment, or payments, to be made by the insurer under the contract.