Sec. 15. (a) Any person who is not of the full age of Eighteen (18) years but who is of the age, as determined by the nearest birthday, of not less than sixteen (16) years, shall be deemed competent to contract for life, accident and sickness insurance or annuities upon the life of such minor for the benefit of such minor or for the benefit of the father, mother, husband, wife, brother or sister, child or children, or any grandparent of such minor, and to exercise and enjoy every right, privilege and benefit provided by any such contracts on the life of such minor, subject to the foregoing limitations as to the designation of beneficiary.

     (b) No person who shall have attained the age of eighteen (18) years is incompetent because of age to contract for any of the kinds of insurance described in Class 1 of IC 27-1-5-1, or to exercise and enjoy every right, privilege and benefit provided by any such Contract.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-15

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • life insurance company: means any company making one or more of the kinds of insurance set out and defined in class 1(a) of IC 27-1-5-1. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, and partnerships; personal pronoun includes all genders; the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
     (c) No person who shall have attained the age of eighteen (18) years is incompetent because of age to receive and to give full acquittance and discharge for payments made to such person by a life insurance company under the provisions of a contract of insurance of any of the kinds described in Class 1 of IC 27-1-5-1, or under the provisions of a settlement agreement executed in connection with any such contract of insurance.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.155a; Acts 1961, c.203, s.1; Acts 1971, P.L.383, SEC.1; Acts 1973, P.L.275, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.86-2018, SEC.203.

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