Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-33

  • Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
   Sec. 33. Variable life insurance policies (contracts providing for immediate or future life insurance benefits as described in Class 1 (c) of IC 27-1-5-1), to the extent that benefits thereunder are on a variable basis, shall contain a statement to that effect in lieu of stipulating the dollar amount of benefits. Such policies shall also contain such grace period, reinstatement, and nonforfeiture provisions, and shall be subject to the establishment of such reserve liabilities, in accordance with actuarial procedures that recognize the variable nature of benefits provided and any mortality guarantees, as the commissioner shall by regulation prescribe. Upon promulgation of such regulation, variable life insurance policies shall not thereafter be subject to the grace period, nonforfeiture, policy loan, reinstatement, and valuation provisions of the Indiana Insurance Law applicable to or required to be contained in other policies of life insurance. Such regulation shall establish such other requirements with respect to variable life insurance policies, variable life insurance, or any matter incidental thereto, as the commissioner deems to be in the public interest.

Formerly: Acts 1973, P.L.276, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.86-2018, SEC.204.