1. A life insurance company having a ratio of statutory surplus to admitted assets of at least four percent may make, acquire, and hold loans to employees, officers, and directors under the following terms and conditions:

 a. The company may make a mortgage loan on real property owned by an employee of the company which is to serve as the employee’s dwelling, provided the company is regularly and actively involved in making residential mortgage loans to the public.
 b. The company may acquire a mortgage loan on real property owned by an employee of the company which is to serve as the employee’s dwelling, provided the company acquiring such loan is regularly and actively involved in acquiring residential mortgage loans not involving employees from sources in the secondary market.
 c. The company may acquire a mortgage loan on real property owned by an employee, officer, or director which is included in a portfolio of mortgages initiated by others and acquired by the life insurance company. The mortgage loans in any such acquired portfolio of mortgage loans must satisfy both of the following conditions:

 (1) More than seventy-five percent of the dollar value of the mortgage loans must be for real property that is owned by persons who are not employees, officers, or directors of the company.
 (2) More than seventy-five percent of the mortgage loans must be for real property that is owned by persons who are not employees, officers, or directors of the company.
 d. The company may continue to hold a mortgage loan on real estate which is assumed by an employee, officer, or director if the mortgage was originally properly made or acquired by the life insurance company, provided that all terms and conditions of the mortgage loan remain unchanged and the mortgage loan is serviced in accordance with customary servicing practices of prudent lending institutions.
 e. The company may continue to hold a mortgage on real estate owned by an officer or director which was properly made or acquired by the company before the officer or director became an officer or director of the company, provided that all terms and conditions of the mortgage loan remain unchanged and the mortgage loan is serviced in accordance with customary servicing practices of prudent lending institutions.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 508.8A

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
 2. As used in this section, “employee” does not include officers or directors of a life insurance company.
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