Indiana Code 27-1-12-30. Group life insurance; assignment of incidents of ownership
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-30
- 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
- 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
- insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
- policyholder: means one who is a holder of a contract of insurance in an insurance company. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
Sec. 30. No provision of this article or of any other law shall be construed as prohibiting an insured under a group insurance policy, pursuant to agreement among the insured, the group policyholder and the insurer, from making an assignment of all or any part of the incidents of ownership held by the insured under such policy, including specifically but not by way of limitation, any right to designate a beneficiary thereunder and any right to have an individual policy issued in accordance with provisions (8) and (9) of section 28 of this chapter. All such assignments, whether made prior to or subsequent to August 18, 1969, shall be valid for the purpose of vesting in the assignee thereof all the incidents of ownership so assigned, and shall entitle the insurer to deal with the assignee as the owner thereof in accordance with the provisions of said policy, but without prejudice to the insurer on account of any payment made or individual policy issued prior to receipt by the insurer of such notice as may be required by the provisions of the policy.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.168.1; Acts 1969, c.327, s.2. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.64.