Terms Used In South Carolina Code 38-55-110

  • insurance: includes annuities. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Insurer: includes a corporation, fraternal organization, burial association, other association, partnership, society, order, individual, or aggregation of individuals engaging or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
  • Policy: means a contract of insurance. See South Carolina Code 38-1-20
In order to pay endowments as they severally mature, as well as to pay all other benefits incorporated in the policies, certificates, or contracts of insurance, a life insurer, fraternal benefit society, or mutual aid association operating in this State upon a plan described in § 38-55-90 shall establish and maintain on each policy a reserve upon a basis not lower than the American Experience Table of Mortality, full preliminary term, Illinois Standard, and interest assumption of three and one-half percent, covering each contingency provided for in the policy.
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