West Virginia Code § 33-13-30

Standard nonforfeiture law for life insurance
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(a) In the case of policies issued on or after the original operative date of this subsection as
set forth in subsection (l) of this section, no policy of life insurance, except as stated in
subsection (k) of this section, shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state unless it
shall contain in substance the following provisions, or corresponding provisions which in the
opinion of the commissioner are at least as favorable to the defaulting or suerrendering
policyholder as are the minimum requirements hereinafter specified and are essentially in
compliance with subsection subsection (j) of this section: r
(1) That, in the event of default in any premium payment, the insuurer will grant, upon proper
request not later than sixty days after the due date of the premium in default, a paid-up
nonforfeiture benefit on a plan stipulated in the policy, effecttive as of such due date, of such
amount as may be hereinafter specified. In lieu of such stipulated paid-up nonforfeiture
benefit, the insurer may substitute, upon proper request not later than sixty days after the
due date of the premium in default, an actuarially equivalent alternative paid-up
nonforfeiture benefit which provides a greater amount or longer period of death benefits or,
if applicable, a greater amount or earlier paymsent of endowment benefits;
(2) That, upon surrender of the policy within sixty days after the due date of any premium
payment in default after premiums hgave been paid for at least three full years in the case of
ordinary insurance or five full years in the case of industrial insurance, the insurer will pay,
in lieu of any paid-up nonforfeeiture benefit, a cash surrender value of such amount as may be
hereinafter specified;
(3) That a specified paid-up nonforfeiture benefit shall become effective as specified in the
policy unless the person entitled to make such election elects another available option not
later than sixty days after the due date of the premium in default;
(4) That, if the policy shall have become paid up by completion of all premium payments or if
it isW continued under any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit which became effective on or after
the third policy anniversary in the case of ordinary insurance or the fifth policy anniversary
in the case of industrial insurance the insurer will pay, upon surrender of the policy within
thirty days after any policy anniversary, a cash surrender value of such amount as may be
hereinafter specified;
(5) In the case of policies which cause on a basis guaranteed in the policy unscheduled
changes in benefits or premiums, or which provide an option for changes in benefits or
premiums other than a change to a new policy, a statement of the mortality table, interest
rate and method used in calculating cash surrender values and the paid-up nonforfeiture
benefits available under the policy. In the case of all other policies, a statement of the
mortality table and interest rate used in calculating the cash surrender values and the paid-
up nonforfeiture benefits available under the policy, together with a table showing the cash
surrender value, if any, and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, if any, available under the policy
on each policy anniversary either during the first twenty policy years or during the term of
the policy, whichever is shorter, such values and benefits to be calculated upon the
assumption that there are no dividends or paid-up additions credited to the policy and that
there is no indebtedness to the insurer on the policy; and
(6) A statement that the cash surrender values and the paid-up nonforfeiture benefits
available under the policy are not less than the minimum values and benefits required by or
pursuant to the insurance law of the state in which the policy is delivered; aen explanation of
the manner in which the cash surrender values and the paid-up nonforfeiture benefits are
altered by the existence of any paid-up additions credited to the policy ror any indebtedness
to the company on the policy; if a detailed statement of the method of computation of the
values and benefits shown in the policy is not stated therein a statement that such method of
computation has been filed with the insurance supervisory official of the state in which the
policy is delivered; and a statement of the method to be usedt in calculating the cash
surrender value and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits available under the policy on any policy
anniversary beyond the last anniversary for which such values and benefits are consecutively
shown in the policy.
Any of the foregoing provisions or portions thesreof, not applicable by reason of the plan of
insurance may, to the extent inapplicable, be omitted from the policy.
The insurer shall reserve the right tog defer the payment of any cash surrender value for a
period of six months after demand therefor with surrender of the policy.
(b) Computation of Cash Surrender Value. --
(1) Any cash surrender value available under the policy in the event of default in a premium
payment due on any policy anniversary, whether or not required by subsection (a) of this
section, shall be an amount not less than the excess, if any, of the present value, on such
anniversary, of the future guaranteed benefits which would have been provided by the
policy, including any existing paid-up additions, if there had been no default, over the sum
of: W
(A) The then present value of the adjusted premiums as defined in subsections (d), (e), (f)
and (g) of this section, corresponding to premiums which would have fallen due on and after
such anniversary; and
(B) The amount of any indebtedness to the insurer on the policy: Provided, That for any
policy issued on or after the operative date of subsection (g) of this section as defined
therein, which provides supplemental life insurance or annuity benefits at the option of the
insured and for an identifiable additional premium by rider or supplemental policy provision,
the cash surrender value referred to in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be an amount
not less than the sum of the cash surrender value for an otherwise similar policy issued at
the same age without such rider or supplemental policy provision and the cash surrender
value as defined in subdivision (1) of this subsection for a policy which provides only the
benefits otherwise provided by such rider or supplemental policy provision: Provided,
however, That for any family policy issued on or after the operative date of subsection (g) of
this section, which defines a primary insured and provides term insurance on the life of the
spouse of the primary insured expiring before the spouse's age seventy-one, the cash
surrender value referred to in the first paragraph of this subsection shall be an amount not
less than the sum of the cash surrender value as defined in such paragraph for an otherwise
similar policy issued at the same age without such term insurance on the life of the spouse
and the cash surrender value as defined in such paragraph for a policy whiceh provides only
the benefits otherwise provided by such term insurance on the life of the spouse.
(2) Any cash surrender value available within thirty days after any policy anniversary under
any policy paid up by completion of all premium payments or any policy continued under any
paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, whether or not required by subsection one, shall be an amount
not less than the present value, on such anniversary, of the ftuture guaranteed benefits
provided by the policy, including any existing paid-up additions decreased by any
indebtedness to the insurer on the policy.
(c) Any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit available under the policy in the event of default in a
premium payment due on any policy anniversasry shall be such that its present value as of
such anniversary shall be at least equal to the cash surrender value then provided for by the
policy or, if none is provided for, that cash surrender value which would have been required
by this section in the absence of theg condition that premiums shall have been paid for at
least a specific period.
(d) Calculation of Adjusted Premiums. --
(1) This subsection does not apply to policies issued on or after the operative date of
subsection (g) of this section. Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, the
adjusted premiums for any policy shall be calculated on an annual basis and shall be such
uniform percentage of the respective premiums specified in the policy for each policy year,
excluding amounts stated in the policy as extra premiums to cover impairments or special
hazWards, that the present value, at the date of issue of the policy, of all such adjusted
premiums shall be equal to the sum of:
(A) The then present value of the future guaranteed benefits provided by the policy;
(B) Two percent of the amount of insurance, if the insurance be uniform in amount, or of the
equivalent uniform amount, as hereinafter defined, if the amount of insurance varies with
duration of the policy;
(C) Forty percent of the adjusted premium for the first policy year;
(D) Twenty-five percent of either the adjusted premium for the first policy year or the
adjusted premium for a whole life policy of the same uniform or equivalent uniform amount
with uniform premiums for the whole of life issued at the same age for the same amount of
insurance, whichever is less.
(2) In applying the percentages specified in, no adjusted premium shall be deemed to
exceed four percent of the amount of insurance or uniform amount equivalent thereto. The
date of issue of a policy for the purpose of this subsection shall be the date as of which the
rated age of the insured is determined.
(3) In the case of a policy providing an amount of insurance varying with duration of the
policy, the equivalent uniform amount for the purpose of this subsection shaell be deemed to
be the uniform amount of insurance provided by an otherwise similar policy, containing the
same endowment benefit or benefits, if any, issued at the same age andr for the same term,
the amount of which does not vary with duration and the benefits under which have the
same present value at the date of issue as the benefits under the policy.
(4) The adjusted premiums for any policy providing term insturance benefits by rider or
supplemental policy provision shall be equal to:
(A) The adjusted premiums for an otherwise similar policy issued at the same age without
such term insurance benefits, increased, during thel period for which premiums for such
term insurance benefits are payable, by; s
(B) The adjusted premiums for such term iinsurance; and
(C) Paragraphs (A) and (B) of this subdivision being calculated separately and as specified in
subdivisions (1), (2) and (3) of this subsection except that, for the purposes of paragraphs
(B), (C) and (D), subdivision (1) of this subsection, the amount of insurance or equivalent
uniform amount of insurance used in the calculation of the adjusted premiums referred to in
paragraph (B), subdivision (1) of this subsection shall be equal to the excess of the
corresponding amount determined for the entire policy over the amount used in the
calculation of the adjusted premiums in paragraph (A), subdivision (4) of this subsection.
(5) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e) and (f) of this section, all adjusted
premiums and present values referred to in this section shall for all policies of ordinary
insurance be calculated on the basis of the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary
Mortality Table: Provided, That for any category of ordinary insurance issued on female
risks, adjusted premiums and present values may be calculated according to an age not
more than three years younger than the actual age of the insured, and such calculations for
all policies of industrial insurance shall be made on the basis of the 1941 Standard Industrial
Mortality Table. All calculations shall be made on the basis of the rate of interest, not
exceeding three and one-half percent per annum, specified in the policy for calculating cash
surrender values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits: Provided, however, That in calculating
the present value of any paid-up term insurance with accompanying pure endowment, if any,
offered as a nonforfeiture benefit, the rates of mortality assumed may be not more than one
hundred and thirty percent of the rates of mortality according to such applicable table:
Provided further, That for insurance issued on a substandard basis, the calculation of any
such adjusted premiums and present values may be based on such other table of mortality as
may be specified by the insurer and approved by the commissioner.
(e) This subsection does not apply to ordinary policies issued on or after the operative date
of subsection (g) of this section. In the case of ordinary policies issued on or after the
operative date of this subsection, all adjusted premiums and present values referred to in
this section shall be calculated on the basis of the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary
Mortality Table and the rate of interest specified in the policy for calculating cash surrender
values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits provided that such rate of interest shall not exceed
three and one-half percent per annum except that a rate of interest not exceeeding four
percent per annum may be used for policies issued on or after June 3, 1974 and prior to April
6, 1977, and a rate of interest not exceeding five and one-half percent prer annum may be
used for policies issued on or after April 6, 1977, except that for any single premium whole
life or endowment insurance policy a rate of interest not exceeding six and one-half percent
per annum may be used: Provided, That for any category of ordinary insurance issued on
female risks, adjusted premiums and present values may be tcalculated according to an age
not more than six years younger than the actual age of the insured: Provided, however, That
in calculating the present value of any paid-up term insurance with accompanying pure
endowment, if any, offered as a nonforfeiture benefit, the rates of mortality assumed may be
not more than those shown in the Commissioners 1958 Extended Term Insurance Table:
Provided further, That for insurance issued on a substandard basis, the calculation of any
such adjusted premiums and present values may be based on such other table of mortality as
may be specified by the company and approved by the commissioner.
After June 3, 1959, any company may file with the commissioner a written notice of its
election to comply with the proevisions of this subsection after a specified date before January
1, 1966. After the filing of such notice, then upon such specified date (which shall be the
operative date of this suLbsection for such company), this subsection shall become operative
with respect to the ordinary policies thereafter issued by such company. If a company makes
no such election, the operative date of this subsection for such company shall be January 1,
1966. V
(f) This subsection does not apply to industrial policies issued on or after the operative date
of subsection (g) of this section. In the case of industrial policies issued on or after the
operative date of this subsection, all adjusted premiums and present values referred to in
this section shall be calculated on the basis of the Commissioners 1961 Standard Industrial
Mortality Table and the rate of interest specified in the policy for calculating cash surrender
values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits provided that such rate of interest shall not exceed
three and one-half percent per annum except that a rate of interest not exceeding four
percent per annum may be used for policies issued on or after June 3, 1974 and prior to April
6, 1977, and a rate of interest not exceeding five and one-half percent per annum may be
used for policies issued on or after April 6, 1977, except that for any single premium whole
life or endowment insurance policy a rate of interest not exceeding six and one-half percent
per annum may be used: Provided, That in calculating the present value of any paid-up term
insurance with accompanying pure endowment, if any, offered as a nonforfeiture benefit, the
rates of mortality assumed may be not more than those shown in the Commissioners 1961
Industrial Extended Term Insurance Table: Provided, however, That for insurance issued on
a substandard basis, the calculation of any such adjusted premiums and present values may
be based on such other table of mortality as may be specified by the company and approved
by the commissioner.
After May 31, 1965, any company may file with the commissioner a written notice of its
election to comply with the provisions of this subsection after a specified date before January
1, 1968. After the filing of such notice, then upon such specified date (whiche shall be the
operative date of this subsection for such company), this subsection shall become operative
with respect to the industrial policies thereafter issued by such companry. If a company
makes no such election, the operative date of this subsection for such company shall be
January 1, 1968.
(g)(1) This subsection applies to all policies issued on or aftetr the operative date of this
subsection. Except as provided in subdivision (7) of this subsection, the adjusted premiums
for any policy shall be calculated on an annual basis and shall be such uniform percentage of
the respective premiums specified in the policy for each policy year, excluding amounts
payable as extra premiums to cover impairments or special hazards and also excluding any
uniform annual contract charge or policy fee sspecified in the policy in a statement of the
method to be used in calculating the cash surrender values and paid-up nonforfeiture
benefits, that the present value, at the date of issue of the policy, of all adjusted premiums
shall be equal to the sum of; g
(A) The then present value of ethe future guaranteed benefits provided for by the policy;
(B) One percent of either the amount of insurance, if the insurance be uniform in amount, or
the average amount of insurance at the beginning of each of the first ten policy years; and
(C) One hundred twenty-five percent of the nonforfeiture net level premium as hereinafter
defined: Provided, That in applying this percentage no nonforfeiture net level premium shall
be deemed to exceed four percent of either the amount of insurance, if the insurance be
unifWorm in amount, or the average amount of insurance at the beginning of each of the first
ten policy years. The date of issue of a policy for the purpose of this subsection shall be the
date as of which the rated age of the insured is determined;
(2) The nonforfeiture net level premium shall be equal to the present value, at the date of
issue of the policy, of the guaranteed benefits provided by the policy divided by the present
value, at the date of issue of the policy, of an annuity of one per annum payable on the date
of issue of the policy and on each anniversary of such policy on which a premium falls due;
(3) In the case of policies which cause on a basis guaranteed in the policy unscheduled
changes in benefits or premiums, or which provide an option for changes in benefits or
premiums other than a change to a new policy, the adjusted premiums and present values
shall initially be calculated on the assumption that future benefits and premiums do not
change from those stipulated at the date of issue of the policy. At the time of any such
change in the benefits or premiums the future adjusted premiums, nonforfeiture net level
premiums and present values shall be recalculated on the assumption that future benefits
and premiums do not change from those stipulated by the policy immediately after the
change;
(4) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (7) of this subsection, the recalculated future
adjusted premiums for any such policy shall be such uniform percentage of the respective
future premiums specified in the policy for each policy year, excluding amouents payable as
extra premiums to cover impairments and special hazards, and also excluding any uniform
annual contract charge or policy fee specified in the policy in a statemernt of the method to
be used in calculating the cash surrender values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, that the
present value, at the time of change to the newly defined benefits or premiums, of all such
future adjusted premiums shall be equal to the excess of:
(A) The sum of:
(i) The then present value of the then future guaranteed benefits provided by the policy; and
(ii) The additional expense allowance, if any, osver
(B) The then cash surrender value, if any, ior present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture
benefit under the policy;
(5) The additional expense allowance, at the time of the change to the newly defined benefits
or premiums, shall be the sum of:
(A) One percent of the excess, if positive, of the average amount of insurance at the
beginning of each of the first ten policy years subsequent to the change over the average
amount of insurance prior to the change at the beginning of each of the first ten policy years
subsequent toV the time of the most recent previous change, or, if there has been no previous
change, the date of issue of the policy; and
(B) One hundred twenty-five percent of the increase, if positive, in the nonforfeiture net level
premium;
(6) The recalculated nonforfeiture net level premium shall be equal to the result obtained by
dividing paragraph (A) of this subdivision by paragraph (B) of this subdivision where:
(A) Equals the sum of
(i) The nonforfeiture net level premium applicable prior to the change times the present
value of an annuity of one per annum payable on each anniversary of the policy on or
subsequent to the date of the change on which a premium would have fallen due had the
change not occurred; and
(ii) The present value of the increase in future guaranteed benefits provided for by the
policy;
(B) Equals the present value of an annuity of one per annum payable on each anniversary of
the policy on or subsequent to the date of change on which a premium falls due.
(7) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection to the contrary, in the case of a
policy issued on a substandard basis which provides reduced graded amounts of insurance
so that, in each policy year, such policy has the same tabular mortality cost as an otherwise
similar policy issued on the standard basis which provides higher uniform aemounts of
insurance, adjusted premiums and present values for such substandard policy may be
calculated as if it were issued to provide such higher uniform amounts rof insurance on the
standard basis;
(8) All adjusted premiums and present values referred to in this section shall for all policies
of ordinary insurance be calculated on the basis of (i) the Cotmmissioners 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; shall for all policies of industrial insurance be calculated on the
basis of the Commissioners 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table; and shall for all
policies issued in a particular calendar year bse calculated on the basis of a rate of interest
not exceeding the nonforfeiture interest rate as defined in this subsection for policies issued
in that calendar year: Provided, That:
(A) At the option of the company, calculations for all policies issued in a particular calendar
year may be made on the basise of a rate of interest not exceeding the nonforfeiture interest
rate, as defined in this subsection, for policies issued in the immediately preceding calendar
year; L
(B) Under any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, including any paid-up dividend additions, any
cash surrender value available, whether or not required by subsection (a) of this section,
shall be calculated on the basis of the mortality table and rate of interest used in
determining the amount of such paid-up nonforfeiture benefit and paid-up dividend
addWitions, if any;
(C) A company may calculate the amount of any guaranteed paid-up nonforfeiture benefit
including any paid-up additions under the policy on the basis of an interest rate no lower
than that specified in the policy for calculating cash surrender values;
(D) In calculating the present value of any paid-up term insurance with accompanying pure
endowment, if any, offered as a nonforfeiture benefit, the rates of mortality assumed may be
not more than those shown in the Commissioners 1980 Extended Term Insurance Table for
policies of ordinary insurance and not more than the Commissioners 1961 Industrial
Extended Term Insurance Table for policies of industrial insurance;
(E) For insurance issued on a substandard basis, the calculation of any such adjusted
premiums and present values may be based on appropriate modifications of the
aforementioned tables;
(F) For policies issued prior to the operative date of the valuation manual, any
Commissioners Standard ordinary mortality tables, adopted after 1980 by the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners, that are approved by rule promulgated by the
commissioner for use in determining the minimum nonforfeiture standard may be
substituted for the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table with or without
ten-year select mortality factors or for the Commissioners 1980 Extended Term Insurance
Table. For policies issued on or after the operative date of the valuation maneual the
valuation manual shall provide the Commissioner's Standard mortality table for use in
determining the minimum nonforfeiture standard that may be substitutred for the
Commissioner's 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table with or without Ten-Year Select
Mortality Factors or for the Commissioners 1980 Extended Term Insurance Table. If the
commissioner approves by rule any Commissioners Standard ordinary mortality table
adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissiotners for use in determining the
minimum nonforfeiture standard for policies issued on or after the operative date of the
valuation manual then that minimum nonforfeiture standard supersedes the minimum
nonforfeiture standard provided by the valuation manual. For purposes of this paragraph,
paragraph (G) of this subdivision and subdivision (9) of this subsection, the operative date of
the valuation manual is that date determined in accordance with subsection (n), section nine,
article seven of this chapter;
(G) For policies issued prior to the operative date of the valuation manual, any industrial
mortality tables, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners, that are approeved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in
determining the minimum nonforfeiture standard may be substituted for the Commissioners
1961 Standard IndustriaLl Mortality Table or the Commissioners 1961 Industrial Extended
Term Insurance Table. For policies issued on or after the operative date of the valuation
manual, the valuation manual shall provide the Commissioners Standard Mortality Table for
use in determVining the minimum nonforfeiture standard that may be substituted for the
Commissioners 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table or the Commissioners 1961
Industrial Extended Term Insurance Table: Provided, That if the Legislature approves a rule
providing that a Commissioners Standard Industrial Mortality Table adopted by the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners shall be used in determining the minimum
nonforfeiture standard for policies issued on or after the operative date of the valuation
manual, then that minimum nonforfeiture standard supersedes the minimum nonforfeiture
standard provided by the valuation manual;
(9) The nonforfeiture interest rate per annum for any policy issued in a particular calendar
year shall be equal to one hundred and twenty-five percent of the calendar year statutory
valuation interest rate for such policy as defined in the Standard Valuation Law, rounded to
the nearer one quarter of one percent: Provided, That, that the nonforfeiture interest rate
may not be less than four percent. For policies issued on and after the operative date of the
valuation manual the nonforfeiture interest rate per annum for any policy issued in a
particular calendar year shall be provided by the valuation manual;
(10) Notwithstanding any other provision in this code to the contrary, any refiling of
nonforfeiture values or their methods of computation for any previously approved policy
form which involves only a change in the interest rate or mortality table used to compute
nonforfeiture values shall not require refiling of any other provisions of that policy form; and
(11) After May 30, 1983, any company may file with the commissioner a written notice of its
election to comply with the provisions of this section after a specified date before January 1,
1989, which shall be the operative date of this subsection for such companye. If a company
makes no such election, the operative date of this section for such company shall be January
1, 1989. r
(h) In the case of any plan of life insurance which provides for fuuture premium
determination, the amounts of which are to be determined by the insurance company based
on then estimates of future experience, or in the case of anyt plan of life insurance which is of
such a nature that minimum values cannot be determined by the methods described in
subsection (a), (b), (c), (d),(e), (f) or (g) of this section, then:
(1) The commissioner must be satisfied that the belnefits provided under the plan are
substantially as favorable to policyholders ands insureds as the minimum benefits otherwise
required by subsection (a), (b), (c), (d),(e), (f) or (g) of this section;
(2) The commissioner must be satisfgied that the benefits and the pattern of premiums of that
plan are not such as to mislead prospective policyholders or insureds; and
(3) The cash surrender values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits provided by such plan must
not be less than the minimum values and benefits required for the plan computed by a
method consistent with the principles of this Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance,
as determined by rules promulgated by the commissioner.
(i) Any cash suVrrender value and any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, available under the
policy in the event of default in a premium payment due at any time other than on the policy
anniversary, shall be calculated with allowance for the lapse of time and the payment of
fractional premiums beyond the last preceding policy anniversary. All values referred to in
subsections (b), (c), (d),(e), (f) and (g) of this section may be calculated upon the assumption
that any death benefit is payable at the end of the policy year of death. The net value of any
paid-up additions, other than paid-up term additions, shall be not less than the amounts used
to provide such additions. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), additional
benefits payable:
(1) In the event of death or dismemberment by accident or accidental means;
(2) In the event of total and permanent disability;
(3) As reversionary annuity or deferred reversionary annuity benefits;
(4) As term insurance benefits provided by a rider or supplemental policy provision to which,
if issued as a separate policy, this subsection would not apply;
(5) As term insurance on the life of a child or on the lives of children provided in a policy on
the life of a parent of the child, if such term insurance expires before the child's age is
twenty-six, is uniform in amount after the child's age is one, and has not become paid up by
reason of the death of a parent of the child; and
(6) As other policy benefits additional to life insurance and endowment benefits, and
premiums for all such additional benefits, shall be disregarded in ascertainieng cash
surrender values and nonforfeiture benefits required by this section, and no such additional
benefits shall be required to be included in any paid-up nonforfeiture brenefits.
(j)(1) This subsection, in addition to all other applicable subsectiuons of this law, shall apply to
all policies issued on or after January 1, 1985. Any cash surrender value available under the
policy in the event of default in a premium payment due on atny policy anniversary shall be in
an amount which does not differ by more than two tenths of one percent of either the
amount of insurance, if the insurance be uniform in amount, or the average amount of
insurance at the beginning of each of the first ten policy years, from the sum of;
(A) The greater of zero and the basic cash valuse hereinafter specified; and
(B) The present value of any existing paid-iup additions less the amount of any indebtedness
to the company under the policy. g
(2) The basic cash value shall be equal to the present value, on such anniversary, of the
future guaranteed benefits which would have been provided by the policy, excluding any
existing paid-up additions and before deduction of any indebtedness to the company, if there
had been no default, less the then present value of the nonforfeiture factors, as hereinafter
defined, corresponding to premiums which would have fallen due on and after such
anniversary: Provided, That the effects on the basic cash value of supplemental life
insurance or annuity benefits or of family coverage, as described in subsection (b) or (d) of
this section, whichever is applicable, shall be the same as are the effect specified in
subWsection (b) or (d) of this section, whichever is applicable, on the cash surrender values
defined in that subsection.
(3) The nonforfeiture factor for each policy year shall be an amount equal to a percentage of
the adjusted premium for the policy year, as defined in subsection (d) or (g), whichever is
applicable. Except as is required by the next succeeding sentence of this paragraph, such
percentage:
(A) Must be the same percentage for each policy year between the second policy anniversary
and the later of:
(i) The fifth policy anniversary; and
(ii) The first policy anniversary at which there is available under the policy a cash surrender
value in an amount, before including any paid-up additions and before deducting any
indebtedness, of at least two tenths of one percent of either the amount of insurance, if the
insurance be uniform in amount, or the average amount of insurance at the beginning of
each of the first ten policy years; and
(B) Must be such that no percentage after the later of the two policy anniversaries specified
in subparagraph (i), paragraph (A) of this subdivision may apply to fewer than five
consecutive policy years: Provided, That no basic cash value may be less thaen the value
which would be obtained if the adjusted premiums for the policy, as defined in subsection (g)
of this section, were substituted for the nonforfeiture factors in the calcrulation of the basic
cash value.
(4) All adjusted premiums and present values referred to in this subsection shall for a
particular policy be calculated on the same mortality and intterest bases as are used in
demonstrating the policy's compliance with the other sections of this law. The cash
surrender values referred to in this subsection shall include any endowment benefits
provided by the policy.
(5) Any cash surrender value available other tshan in the event of default in a premium
payment due on a policy anniversary, and the amount of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit
available under the policy in the event of default in a premium payment shall be determined
in manners consistent with the mangners specified for determining the analogous minimum
amounts in subsections (a), (b),(c), (g) and (i) of this section. The amounts of any cash
surrender values and of any paeid-up nonforfeiture benefits granted in connection with
additional benefits such as those listed as subdivisions (1) through (6), subsection (i) of this
section shall conform wLith the principles of this subsection.
(k) This section does not apply to any of the following:
(1) Reinsurance;
(2) Group insurance;
(3) Pure endowment;
(4) Annuity or reversionary annuity contract;
(5) Term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or
endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-
one, for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;
(6) Term policy of decreasing amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or
endowment benefits, on which each adjusted premium, calculated as specified in subsections
(d), (e), (f) and (g) of this section, is less than the adjusted premium so calculated on a policy
of uniform amount, or renewal thereof, 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 twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one, for which uniform
premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;
(7) 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 subsections (b), (c), (d), (e) (f) and (g)
of this section, exceeds two and one-half percent of the amount of insurance at the beginning
of the same policy year; and e
(8) Policy which shall be delivered outside this state through an agent or other
representative of the insurer issuing the policy. For purposes of determining the applicability
of this section, the age at expiry for a joint term life insurance poulicy shall be the age at
expiry of the oldest life.
(l) After the effective date of the amendments made to this section during the 2014 regular
session of the Legislature, any company may file with tahe commissioner a written notice of
its election to comply with the provisions of this section after a specified date before January
1, 1948. After the filing of such notice, then upon tlhe specified date (which shall be the
operative date for the company), this section sshall become operative with respect to the
policies thereafter issued by such company. If a company makes no such election, the
operative date of this section for the company shall be January 1, 1948.

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