10127.11. Every insurer and life agent offering for sale individual life insurance policies or individual annuity contracts that are initially delivered or issued for delivery to senior citizens in this state on and after January 1, 1995, with the use of nonpreprinted illustrations of nonguaranteed values shall disclose on those illustrations or on an attached cover sheet, in bold or underlined capitalized print, or in the form of a contrasting color sticker, bright highlighter pen, or in any manner that makes it more prominent than the surrounding material, with at least one-half inch space on all four sides, the following statement:
“THIS IS AN ILLUSTRATION ONLY. AN ILLUSTRATION IS NOT INTENDED TO PREDICT ACTUAL PERFORMANCE. INTEREST RATES, DIVIDENDS, OR VALUES THAT ARE SET FORTH IN THE ILLUSTRATION ARE NOT GUARANTEED, EXCEPT FOR THOSE ITEMS CLEARLY LABELED AS GUARANTEED.”
All preprinted policy illustrations shall contain this notice in 12-point bold print with at least one-half inch space on all four sides and shall be printed on the illustration form itself or on an attached cover sheet, or in the form of a contrasting color sticker placed on the front of the illustration. All preprinted illustrations containing nonguaranteed values shall show the columns of guaranteed values in bold print. All other columns used in the illustration shall be in standard print. “Values” as used here includes cash value, surrender value, and death benefit.
(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 379, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1999.)
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