Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-20

  • 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
  • premium: means money or any other thing of value paid or given in consideration to an insurer, insurance producer, or solicitor on account of or in connection with a contract of insurance and shall include as a part but not in limitation of the above, policy fees, admission fees, membership fees and regular or special assessments and payments made on account of annuities. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
   Sec. 20. No life insurance company shall receive or accept, by virtue of the provisions set forth in any policy or indorsement thereon, any premium deposit in excess of the regular premium then due whenever the total premium deposit together with the policy reserve shall be sufficient as a gross premium to convert the policy into a fully paid policy. The policy or indorsement shall contain a provision that the amount of any premium deposit fund held by the company will be included as a part of the cash surrender value of the policy, a provision providing for the disposition of such fund if it is not sufficient to pay the next premium, and a provision that such fund is not withdrawable except by surrender of the policy, a loan thereon or through the selection of a nonforfeiture value.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.159.