Sec. 40. Except for a policy that conforms to the description in section 37(2) of this chapter, a group life insurance policy may be extended to insure the employees or members, or any class or classes of employees or members, against loss due to the death of their spouses and dependent children, subject to the following:

(1) The premium for the insurance must be paid either from funds contributed by the employer, union, association, or other person to whom the policy has been issued, from funds contributed by the covered persons, or from both sources of funds. Except as provided in subdivision (2), a policy on which no part of the premium for the spouse’s and dependent child’s coverage is to be derived from funds contributed by the covered persons must insure all eligible employees or members, or any class or classes of eligible employees or members, with respect to their spouses and dependent children.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-40

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • employees: as used in this chapter refers to officers, managers, employees, and retired employees of the employer and the individual proprietor or partners if the employer is an individual or partnership. See Indiana Code 27-1-12-34.1
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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
  • insurer: means a company, firm, partnership, association, order, society or system making any kind or kinds of insurance and shall include associations operating as Lloyds, reciprocal or inter-insurers, or individual underwriters. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, and partnerships; personal pronoun includes all genders; the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
  • premium: means money or any other thing of value paid or given in consideration to an insurer, insurance producer, or solicitor on account of or in connection with a contract of insurance and shall include as a part but not in limitation of the above, policy fees, admission fees, membership fees and regular or special assessments and payments made on account of annuities. See Indiana Code 27-1-2-3
(2) An insurer may exclude or limit the coverage on any spouse or dependent child as to whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer.

As added by P.L.254-1985, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.111-2008, SEC.2.

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