Sec. 8. No policy of life insurance shall hereafter be issued or delivered in this state, or be issued by a life insurance company organized under the laws of this state, if it contain any of the following provisions:

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12-8

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
     (1) Limiting the time within which any action at law or in equity may be commenced, to less than three (3) years after the cause of action shall accrue.

     (2) By which the policy shall purport to be issued or to take effect more than six (6) months before the original application for insurance was made.

     (3) That in the event of the maturity of any policy after the expiration of the contestable period thereof, for any mode of settlement at maturity of less value according to the company’s published rates therefor then in use, than the amount insured under the policy, plus dividend additions, if any, less any indebtedness to the company on account of or secured by the policy and less any premium that may, by the terms of the policy, be deducted.

     (4) For the forfeiture of the policy for failure to repay any loan on the policy, or to pay interest on such loan while the total indebtedness on the policy is less than the loan value thereof; or any provision for forfeiture for failure to repay any such loan or to pay interest thereon, unless such provision contain a stipulation that no such forfeiture shall occur until at least thirty (30) days after notice shall have been mailed by the company to the last-known address of the insured and to the assignee, if any, if such assignee has notified the company of his address.

     (5) Which contains any clause promising to the holder of such policy any special dividend or benefit to be derived from any other policy; nor shall any company organized under the laws of this state issue in connection with any policy any separate paper or contract promising any such special dividend or benefit; nor shall any company be admitted to do business in this state that issues policies which contain any such clause, or which issues in connection with any policy any separate paper or contract promising any such dividend or benefit.

Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.152.

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