This article shall not apply to any of the following:

(1) Reinsurance.

Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-15-82

  • 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.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(2) Group insurance.
(3) Pure endowment.
(4) Annuity or reversionary annuity contract.
(5) Variable life insurance contract.
(6) A term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of 20 years or less, expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy.
(7) A term policy of decreasing amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, on which each adjusted premium, calculated as specified in Sections 27-15-75, 27-15-76, 27-15-77, and 27-15-78, is less than the adjusted premium so calculated on a term policy of uniform amount, or renewal thereof, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, issued at the same age and for the same initial amount of insurance and for a term of 20 years or less, expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy.
(8) A policy, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, for which no cash surrender value, if any, or present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, at the beginning of any policy year, calculated as specified in Sections 27-15-73, 27-15-74, 27-15-75, 27-15-76, 27-15-77, and 27-15-78, exceeds two and one-half percent of the amount of insurance at the beginning of the same policy year.
(9) Benefits provided in the form of funeral or monument merchandise and services under burial policies, except to the extent provided in Section 27-17-13.