Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12.6-1

  • 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.
  • 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
   Sec. 1. Each annuity contract, as defined in IC 27-1-12.5, whether in a separate instrument, or in a separate provision in or as a rider to a life insurance policy, shall be subject to the limitations and disclosures set out in this chapter.

As added by Acts 1977, P.L.286, SEC.2.