Sec. 19. (a) The commissioner shall annually value or cause to be valued the reserves for all outstanding life insurance contracts and annuity and pure endowment contracts:

(1) of each company doing business in Indiana; and

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-12.8-19

  • 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.
  • Commissioner: means the "insurance commissioner" of this state. 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
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • life insurance: means insurance under a contract that incorporates mortality risk, including annuity and pure endowment contracts. See Indiana Code 27-1-12.8-10
  • reserves: means reserve liabilities. See Indiana Code 27-1-12.8-15
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) issued on or after the transition date selected by the company under IC 27-1-12-12, the transition date in no event to be later than January 1, 1948, and before the operative date of the valuation manual.

     (b) In calculating reserves, the commissioner may use group methods and approximate averages for fractions of a year or otherwise. In lieu of the valuation of the reserves required of a foreign or alien company, the commissioner may accept a valuation made, or caused to be made, by the insurance supervisory official of another state or jurisdiction when the valuation complies with the minimum standard provided in sections 19 through 40 of this chapter.

     (c) Sections:

(1) 24 through 33 of this chapter apply to all contracts, as appropriate, issued on or after the transition date selected by a company under IC 27-1-12-12, the transition date in no event to be later than January 1, 1948, and before the operative date of the valuation manual; and

(2) 34 and 35 of this chapter do not apply to contracts described in subdivision (1).

     (d) The minimum standard for the valuation of contracts issued before the transition date selected by a company under IC 27-1-12-12, the transition date in no event to be later than January 1, 1948, is the minimum standard specified in section 18 of this chapter.

As added by P.L.276-2013, SEC.10.