Indiana Code 27-1-12.6-5. Right to return contracts
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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12.6-5
- 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. 5. Each annuity contract shall contain a provision giving the purchaser an unrestricted right to return the contract to the company or to the insurance producer through whom it was purchased, on or before the tenth day after it is received by the purchaser, such return entitling the purchaser to a return of the value of a variable annuity account or the monies paid by the purchaser to a fixed account in connection with the issuance of the contract. This provision shall be conspicuously placed on the face of the contract. This provision does not apply to contracts issued in connection with a pension, annuity, or profit-sharing plan qualified or exempt under Sections 401, 403, 404, or 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, if participation in the plan is a condition of employment.
As added by Acts 1977, P.L.286, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.2-1987, SEC.37; P.L.116-1994, SEC.26; P.L.178-2003, SEC.17.