Colorado Code § 10-7-309

Minimum standard of valuation - rules
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(1) Except as otherwise provided
in subsection (2) of this section and in section 10-7-309.5, the minimum standard for the
valuation of all policies issued by any domestic or foreign life insurance company, on or after the
operative date provided in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section, must be the
commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in sections 10-7-310, 10-7-310.5, and 10-7-
313, five percent interest for group annuity and pure endowment contracts and three and one-half
percent interest for all other such policies and contracts, or in the case of policies and contracts,
other than annuity and pure endowment contracts, issued on or after July 1, 1977, five and one-
half percent interest for single-premium life insurance policies and four and one-half percent
interest for all other such policies, and the following tables:
(a) For ordinary policies of life insurance issued on the standard basis, excluding any
disability or accidental death benefits in such policies: The commissioners 1958 standard
ordinary mortality table, but, for any category of such policies issued on female risks, all
modified net premiums and present values referred to in this part 3 may be calculated, at the
option of the company, according to an age not more than six years younger than the actual age
of the insured; and for such policies issued on or after the operative date of section 10-7-305.1:
(I) The commissioners 1980 standard ordinary mortality table; or
(II) At the election of the company for any one or more specified plans of life insurance,
the commissioners 1980 standard ordinary mortality table with ten-year select mortality factors;
or
(III) Any ordinary mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by
rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation
for such policies;
(b) For industrial life insurance policies issued on the standard basis, excluding any
disability and accidental death benefits in the policies: The 1941 standard industrial mortality
table for policies issued prior to the operative date of section 10-7-305 (5), and for policies
issued on or after the operative date the commissioners 1961 standard industrial mortality table
or any industrial mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule
promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for
such policies;
(c) For individual annuity and pure endowment policies, excluding any disability and
accidental death benefits in such policies: The 1937 standard annuity mortality table or, at the
option of the company, the annuity mortality table for 1949, ultimate, or any modification of
either of these tables approved by the commissioner;
(d) For group annuity and pure endowment policies, excluding any disability and
accidental death benefits in such policies: The group annuity mortality table for 1951, any
modification of the table approved by the commissioner, or, at the option of the company, any of
the tables or modifications of tables specified for individual annuity and pure endowment
policies;
(e) For total and permanent disability benefits in or supplementary to ordinary policies:
The tables of period 2 disablement rates and the 1930 to 1950 termination rates of the 1952
disability study of the society of actuaries, with due regard to the type of benefit, or any tables of
disablement rates and termination rates, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that are approved by
rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation
for the policies. Any table must, for active lives, be combined with a mortality table permitted
for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies.
(f) For accidental death benefits in or supplementary to policies: The 1959 accidental
death benefits table or any accidental death benefits table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that
is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum
standard of valuation for such policies. Either table shall be combined with a mortality table
permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies.
(g) For group life insurance, life insurance issued on the substandard basis and other
special benefits: Such tables as may be approved by the commissioner.
(2) (a) Except as provided in section 10-7-309.5, the minimum standard of valuation for
individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the operative date of this
subsection (2), as defined in paragraph (b) of this subsection (2), and for all annuities and pure
endowments purchased on or after said operative date under group annuity and pure endowment
contracts, must be the commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in sections 10-7-310
and 10-7-310.5 and the following tables and interest rates:
(I) For individual single-premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability
and accidental death benefits in such contracts: The 1971 individual annuity mortality table, or
any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule
promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for
such contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and seven and
one-half percent interest;
(II) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts, other than single-premium
immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such
contracts: The 1971 individual annuity mortality table, or any individual annuity mortality table,
adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for
use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of
these tables approved by the commissioner, and five and one-half percent interest for single-
premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts and four and one-half percent interest
for all other such individual annuity and pure endowment contracts;
(III) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased under group annuity and pure
endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under
such contracts: The 1971 group annuity mortality table, or any group annuity mortality table,
adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for
use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such annuities and pure endowments,
or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and seven and one-half
percent interest.
(b) On or after July 1, 1977, any company may file with the commissioner a written
notice of its election to comply with the provisions of this subsection (2) after a specified date
but before January 1, 1979, which is the operative date of this subsection (2) for a company, but
a company may elect a different operative date for individual annuity and pure endowment
contracts from that elected for group annuity and pure endowment contracts. If a company
makes no such election, the operative date of this subsection (2) for such company is January 1,
1979.

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