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Texas Insurance Code - INS § 884.451. Reserves on Individual and Group Life Insurance Policies

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A stipulated premium company shall maintain reserves on each of its individual life insurance policies in accordance with the reserve standard adopted by the company and approved by the department. The standard must provide reserves that in the aggregate are equal to at least the reserve amounts computed using the 1956 Chamberlain Reserve Table with interest that does not exceed 3- 1/2 percent per year. A stipulated premium company may use the 1956 Chamberlain Reserve Table.

(b) A stipulated premium company shall maintain reserves on family group life insurance policies on which a group premium is charged and under which the amount of a benefit depends on the sequence of deaths. The amount of the reserves must be equal to the reserves that would be required under Subsection (a) on individual life insurance policies on the lives of:

(1) the two oldest living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for those two members determined assuming that the elder of the two will die first; or

(2) the living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for each member of the family group determined assuming that each member will die first.

(c) A stipulated premium company may select the method to be used to compute the amount of the reserves under Subsection (b).

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