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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-32

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • capital: means the aggregate amount paid in on the shares of capital stock of a corporation issued and outstanding. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • Insurance: means a contract of insurance or an agreement by which one (1) party, for a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do an act valuable to the insured upon the destruction, loss or injury of something in which the other party has a pecuniary interest, or in consideration of a price paid, adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other against loss by certain specified risks; to grant indemnity or security against loss for a consideration. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • life insurance company: means any company making one or more of the kinds of insurance set out and defined in class 1(a) of IC 27-1-5-1. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
   Sec. 32. A domestic life insurance company shall not issue the type of life insurance or annuity contracts defined and sanctioned under Class 1(c) of IC 27-1-5-1 unless, in addition to fulfilling all other qualifications prescribed by law, it possesses assets of not less than twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), or combined capital and surplus, in the case of a stock company, or surplus, in the case of a mutual company, of not less than two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000). In applying these qualifications to a subsidiary stock life insurance company that is a subsidiary company (as defined in IC 27-1-23-2.6), the requirements concerning assets, capital, and surplus shall be regarded as fulfilled if the consolidated assets, capital, and surplus of the primary and subsidiary companies equal or exceed the required amounts.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.169.1; Acts 1961, c.138, s.3. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.66; P.L.1-2002, SEC.103.