Effective - 28 Aug 1939
377.250. Minimum premiums. — 1. Every corporation, company or association doing business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall charge a mortuary premium at least equal to that of yearly term insurance at age of entry according to the actuaries' or combined experience mortality table, with interest at four percent, and such mortuary premium shall be increased by a loading of not less than twenty percent for age twenty and all ages under twenty, and one percent additional for each additional year of age, renewable term policies excepted from such loading.
2. Said premium may be paid annually, semiannually, quarterly, bimonthly or monthly in advance.
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(RSMo 1939 § 5874)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 5763; 1919 § 6173; 1909 § 6967
(1954) Where policy fee which was collected from applicant for insurance and retained by agent had the effect of continuing insurance in force for given period, it constituted part of first year's premium, and the period it covers must be deducted from the year so that amount of annual premium later collected insofar as it exceeded one full year's premium when added to policy fee must be credited to insurance fund established under § 377.260. Old Reliable Soc. v. Leggett, 364 Mo. 630, 265 S.W.2d 302.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXIV - Business and Financial Institutions
Chapter 377 - Assessment Plan and Stipulated Premium Plan Life Insurance
Section 377.005 - Definitions.
Section 377.010 - Assessment plan insurance defined.
Section 377.020 - Incorporation of companies, procedure.
Section 377.030 - Release of beneficiary fund — replacement — exemptions.
Section 377.040 - Qualifications to do business.
Section 377.050 - Emergency fund — accumulation — purpose — replacement.
Section 377.060 - Policy to specify amount to be paid, when payable.
Section 377.070 - Effect of refusal to pay — duty of director.
Section 377.090 - Proceeds not liable for debts.
Section 377.100 - Statement of affairs.
Section 377.120 - Two-thirds majority to reinsure or transfer risks.
Section 377.150 - Retaliatory section.
Section 377.160 - Deposit for costs and expenses.
Section 377.180 - Not applicable to fraternal societies.
Section 377.190 - Penalty for false statement.
Section 377.199 - No companies formed under sections 377.200 to 377.460 after August 29, 1959.
Section 377.200 - Stipulated premium companies defined — penalty for unlawful use of term.
Section 377.210 - Organization — powers.
Section 377.220 - Articles of agreement — approval — filing — issuance of certificate.
Section 377.230 - Completion of organization.
Section 377.240 - Withdrawals of securities upon relinquishment of business.
Section 377.250 - Minimum premiums.
Section 377.260 - Emergency fund — extra premium — commutation of policies.
Section 377.270 - Limited payment policies — reserve — deposit.
Section 377.280 - Surrender values.
Section 377.290 - Distribution of surplus.
Section 377.300 - Policy to specify amount to be paid — effect of refusal to pay.
Section 377.320 - Policy incontestable after one year.
Section 377.330 - Proceeds not liable for debts.
Section 377.340 - Misrepresentations.
Section 377.350 - Copy of application.
Section 377.360 - Discriminations prohibited — duty of director and attorney general.
Section 377.370 - Personal liability.
Section 377.380 - Annual report.
Section 377.400 - Reinsurance and reinstatement.
Section 377.420 - Retaliatory section.
Section 377.430 - Requirements for foreign corporations — tax on premiums.
Section 377.450 - Acceptance of provisions of regular life law — not to affect past contracts.