33-20-123. Prohibited policy plans -- life insurance policies or annuity contracts. (1) No insurer shall issue for delivery or deliver in this state any life insurance policy or annuity contract issued under any plan for the segregation of policyholders into mathematical groups and providing benefits for a surviving policyholder of a group arising out of the death of another policyholder of such group or under any other similar plan.
(2) No insurer shall issue for delivery or deliver in this state any life insurance policy or annuity contract providing benefits or values for surviving or continuing policyholders contingent upon the lapse or termination of the policies of other policyholders, whether by death or otherwise. This provision shall not be deemed to prohibit the payment or allowance of regular annual dividends or "savings" under participating forms of policies or contracts or prohibit the annual distribution to policyholders or beneficiaries of sums representing in part gains to the insurer from lapses, surrenders, or mortality either in general or as resulting from particular classifications of policies.
History: En. Sec. 327, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3833.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 33. Insurance and Insurance Companies
33-20-102. Industrial life insurance defined
33-20-103. Standard provisions required -- exceptions
33-20-107. Misstatement of age
33-20-109. Renumbered 33-20-131
33-20-111. Table of installments
33-20-113. Payment of premiums
33-20-114. Payment of claims -- interest
33-20-115. Beneficiary -- industrial policies
33-20-117. Nonforfeiture rights -- policies issued before operative date
33-20-118. Contestability -- excluded or restricted coverage
33-20-120. Policy settlements -- holding proceeds -- indebtedness deducted from proceeds
33-20-121. Prohibited provisions -- limitations on liability
33-20-122. Prohibited provisions -- industrial life insurance
33-20-123. Prohibited policy plans -- life insurance policies or annuity contracts
33-20-124. Policy provisions -- conformity with state statutes
33-20-125. and 33-20-126 reserved
33-20-128. Life insurance policy paying long-term benefits -- monthly report
33-20-129. and 33-20-130 reserved
33-20-131. Policy loan or certificate loan
33-20-132. Variable policy loan interest rates -- purpose
33-20-133. Variable interest rates -- exclusions from application
33-20-134. Variable interest rates -- published monthly average defined
33-20-135. Variable interest rates on policy loans
33-20-136. Variable interest rates -- applicability to policies issued before October 1985
33-20-137. through 33-20-140 reserved
33-20-141. Notice required for cancellation
33-20-142. Contents of notice -- proof -- limitation on recovery -- exemptions
33-20-143. through 33-20-149 reserved
33-20-150. Life insurance policy and sales illustrations -- annuity disclosure -- rules