I. This chapter shall not apply to any of the following:
(a) Reinsurance;

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 409:7

  • 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.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4

(b) Group insurance;
(c) Pure endowment;
(d) Annuity or reversionary annuity contract;
(e) Term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of 20 years or less expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;
(f) Term policy of decreasing amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, on which each adjusted premium, calculated as specified in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 409:5, 409:5-a, and 409:5-b, is less than the adjusted premium so calculated, on a term policy of uniform amount, or renewal of such policy, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, issued at the same age and for the same initial amount of insurance and for a term of 20 years or less expiring before age 71, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;
(g) Policy, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, for which no cash surrender value, if any, or present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, at the beginning of any policy year, calculated as specified in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 409:3, 409:4, 409:5, 409:5-a, and 409:5-b, exceeds 2
1/2 percent of the amount of insurance at the beginning of the same policy year; nor
(h) Policy which shall be delivered outside this state through an agent or other representative of the company issuing the policy.
II. For purposes of determining the applicability of this chapter, the age at expiry for a joint term life insurance policy shall be the age at expiry of the oldest life.