The following classes of insurance can be written by mutual assessment life, accident and sickness insurers:

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Terms Used In Virginia Code 38.2-3902

  • Accident and sickness insurance: means insurance against loss resulting from sickness, or from bodily injury or death by accident or accidental means, or from a combination of any or all of these perils. See Virginia Code 38.2-109
  • Annuities: means all agreements to make periodic payments in specified or calculable sums pursuant to the terms of a contract for a stated period of time or for the life of the person or persons specified in the contract. See Virginia Code 38.2-106
  • Life insurance: includes policies that also provide (i) endowment benefits; (ii) additional benefits incidental to a loss in the event of death, dismemberment, or loss by accident or accidental means; (iii) additional benefits to safeguard the contract from lapse or to provide a special surrender value, a special benefit or an annuity, in the event of total and permanent disability of the insured; and (iv) optional modes of settlement of proceeds. See Virginia Code 38.2-102
  • Medicare: means the "Health Insurance for the Aged Act" Title XVIII of the Social Security Amendment of 1965, as amended. See Virginia Code 38.2-100

Category A

1. Life insurance as defined in § 38.2-102;

2. Industrial life insurance as defined in § 38.2-104; and

3. Accident and sickness insurance as defined in § 38.2-109 except Medicare supplement insurance as defined in § 38.2-3600.

Category B

1. Credit life insurance as defined in § 38.2-103;

2. Variable life insurance as defined in § 38.2-105;

3. Credit accident and sickness insurance as defined in § 38.2-108; and

4. Medicare supplement insurance as defined in § 38.2-3600.

Category C

1. Annuities as defined in § 38.2-106; and

2. Variable annuities as defined in § 38.2-107.

1985, c. 400, § 38.1-549.3; 1986, c. 562.