Utah Code 31A-17-405. Fraternal rates and reserves
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(1) A fraternal may be organized for the transaction of business on a plan set forth in the contract which provides for sufficient contributions by each member each year to pay the member’s share of the actual death claims of the year, through advance payments graded according to a mortality table approved by the commissioner, without any reserve, or with a reserve which may accumulate from overpayments of individual members. If this type of reserve does accumulate, each member shall be informed each year of the member’s credit and of the cost of the member’s insurance.
Terms Used In Utah Code 31A-17-405
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
- Insurance: includes :(96)(b)(i) a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind;(96)(b)(ii) a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and(96)(b)(iii) a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
- Member: means a person having membership rights in an insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
- Mutual: means a mutual insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
- Writing: includes :
(48)(a) printing;(48)(b) handwriting; and(48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5(2) Each fraternal shall collect regular premiums for each coverage it provides at adequate rates that are approved by the commissioner or conform to standards set by rules adopted by the commissioner.(3) The reserves of a fraternal are subject to the same requirements as those of Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations, insurers writing the same coverages, except that the commissioner may authorize the use of suitable fraternal mortality tables or other appropriate tables instead of the tables used by Chapter 5, Domestic Stock and Mutual Insurance Corporations, insurers.