556.3 Unclaimed funds held by life insurance corporations.
1. Unclaimed funds, as defined in this section, held and owing by a life insurance corporation shall be presumed abandoned if the last known address, according to the records of the corporation, of the person entitled to the funds is within this state. If a person other than the insured or annuitant is entitled to the funds and no address of such person is known to the corporation or if it is not definite and certain from the records of the corporation what person is entitled to the funds, it is presumed that the last known address of the person entitled to the funds is the same as the last known address of the insured or annuitant according to the records of the corporation.
2. “Unclaimed funds”, as used in this section, means all moneys held and owing by any life insurance corporation unclaimed and unpaid for more than three years after the moneys became due and payable as established from the records of the corporation under any life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract which has matured or terminated. A life insurance policy not matured by actual proof of the death of the insured is deemed to be matured and the proceeds thereof are deemed to be due and payable if the policy was in force when the insured attained the limiting age under the mortality table on which the reserve is based and shall be presumed abandoned and to be unclaimed funds as defined in this section if unclaimed and unpaid for more than two years thereafter, unless the person appearing entitled thereto has within the two-year period assigned, readjusted, or paid premiums on the policy, or subjected the policy to loan or corresponded in writing with the life insurance corporation concerning the policy. Moneys otherwise payable according to the records of the corporation are deemed due and payable although the policy or contract has not been surrendered as required.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §556.3]
84 Acts, ch 1295, §8; 91 Acts, ch 267, §626
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 556 - DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
Section 556.1 - Definitions and use of terms.
Section 556.2 - Property held by banking or financial organizations or by business associations.
Section 556.2A - Traveler’s checks and money orders.
Section 556.2C - Outstanding state warrants.
Section 556.3 - Unclaimed funds held by life insurance corporations.
Section 556.3A - Unclaimed demutualization proceeds held by insurance companies.
Section 556.4 - Deposits and refunds held by utilities.
Section 556.5 - Stocks and other intangible interests in business associations.
Section 556.7 - Property held by fiduciaries.
Section 556.8 - Property held by state courts and public officers and agencies — abandonment.
Section 556.9 - Miscellaneous personal property held for another person — wages — gift certificates.
Section 556.9A - Out-of-state property issued within the state.
Section 556.9B - United States savings bonds — escheatment procedures.
Section 556.11 - Report of abandoned property.
Section 556.12 - Notice and publication of lists of abandoned property.
Section 556.13 - Payment or delivery of abandoned property.
Section 556.14 - Relief from liability by payment or delivery.
Section 556.15 - Income accruing after payment or delivery.
Section 556.16 - Periods of limitation not a bar.
Section 556.17 - Sale of abandoned property.
Section 556.18 - Deposit of funds.
Section 556.19 - Claim for abandoned property paid or delivered.
Section 556.20 - Determination of claims.
Section 556.21 - Judicial action upon determinations.
Section 556.22 - Elections by the treasurer of state.
Section 556.23 - Examination of records.
Section 556.24 - Proceeding to compel delivery of abandoned property.
Section 556.24A - Public records.
Section 556.25 - Interest and penalties.
Section 556.27 - Effect of laws of other states.
Section 556.28 - Interstate agreements and cooperation.