Sec. 10. Any corporation, association, or society organized to insure against the contingency of death or physical disability of the assured thereunder resulting from accidental injuries, and which provides for the payment of policy claims, the accumulation of reserve or emergency funds and the expenses of the management and prosecution of the business, by payments to be made, either at periods named in the contract or upon assessments as required by persons holding similar contracts, and where the assured's liability to contribute to the payment of benefits accrued or to accrue is not limited to a fixed sum, shall be deemed to be engaged in the business of accident insurance upon the assessment plan, and the business involving the issuance of such contracts shall be carried on in this state only by duly organized and authorized corporations, associations, or societies, which shall be subject only to the provisions and requirements of this chapter.
Formerly: Acts 1897, c.195, s.10. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.282.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 8. Life, Accident, and Health
Chapter 3. Mutual Life and Accident─formation
27-8-3-3. Directors, Trustees, or Managers
27-8-3-4. Determination of Fee Rates and Amount of Premiums, Assessments, or Periodical Calls; Risks
27-8-3-5. Reincorporation of Domestic Assessment Plan Companies; Exceptions
27-8-3-6. Application of Chapter to Assessment Plan Companies; Exceptions
27-8-3-7. Accumulation of Reserve or Emergency Fund; Investment; Additional Funds; Use of Excess
27-8-3-8. Assignment of Policy to Person Without Insurable Interest Void
27-8-3-9. Annual Report; Failure to File Report and Pay Fees; Suspension From Doing Business
27-8-3-10. Accident Insurance Business on Assessment Plan
27-8-3-11. Reserve Emergency Fund
27-8-3-12. Report of Affairs and Operations; Suspension for Failure to File
27-8-3-13. Authority to Deposit Securities; Investment of Reserve Funds
27-8-3-16. Examination at Request of Corporation; Certificate of Results; Expense
27-8-3-18. Attorney General; Exclusive Power to Apply for Accounting, Injunction, or Receivership
27-8-3-20. Foreign Corporations; Service of Process
27-8-3-21. Fraudulent Representations; Offenses
27-8-3-22. Eligible Beneficiaries; Change of Beneficiary
27-8-3-23. Exemption of Benefits and Premiums From Judicial Process
27-8-3-24. Violations; Revocation of Power to Do Business
27-8-3-26. Exempt Organizations
27-8-3-27. Legal Reserves; Compulsory Deposits; Filing of Forms; Exceptions