Sec. 19.5. (a) As used in this section, “annuity” means an annuity that is:

(1) an insurance product under Indiana law; and

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 27-1-15.6-19.5

  • 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.
  • Department: means "the department of insurance" 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
  • 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
(2) solicited individually, regardless of whether the insurance product is classified as an individual annuity or a group annuity.

     (b) A person may not sell, solicit, or negotiate an annuity unless the person meets the following requirements:

(1) The person is licensed as:

(A) an insurance producer with a life qualification under section 7(a)(1) of this chapter; or

(B) in the case of a variable annuity, an insurance producer with a variable annuity qualification under section 7(a)(5) of this chapter.

(2) The person has adequate knowledge of an annuity product to recommend the annuity product.

(3) The person complies with the insurer‘s training standards for annuity products.

(4) The person has completed a single four (4) hour annuity training course that is conducted through a structured setting or self-study method and approved by the department in accordance with the requirements for approval that apply to continuing education courses under IC 27-1-15.7.

As added by P.L.11-2011, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.115-2011, SEC.8.