RCW 48.09.300
Dividends.
(1) The directors of a domestic mutual insurer on the cash premium plan may from time to time apportion and pay to its members as entitled thereto, dividends only out of that part of its surplus funds which are in excess of its required minimum surplus and which represent net realized savings and net realized earnings from its business.
(2) Any classification of its participating policies and of risks assumed thereunder which the insurer may make shall be reasonable. No dividend shall be paid which is inequitable, or which unfairly discriminates as between such classifications or as between policies within the same classification.
(3) No dividend, otherwise earned, shall be made contingent upon the payment of renewal premium on any policy.
[1947 c 79 § .09.30; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.09.30.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 48.09 - Mutual Insurers.
48.09.010 - Initial qualifications.
48.09.090 - Additional kinds of insurance.
48.09.120 - Rights of members.
48.09.140 - Notice of annual meeting.
48.09.160 - Directors—Disqualification.
48.09.180 - Limitation of expenses as to property and casualty insurance.
48.09.190 - Procedure upon violation of limitation.
48.09.210 - Limitation of action on officer's salary.
48.09.220 - Contingent liability of members.
48.09.230 - Assessment of members.
48.09.235 - Issuing a capital call—Notice—Insurer's duties—Rules.
48.09.240 - Contingent liability of members of assessment insurer.
48.09.250 - Contingent liability as asset.
48.09.260 - Liability as lien on policy reserves.
48.09.270 - Nonassessable policies.
48.09.280 - Qualification on issuance of nonassessable policies.
48.09.290 - Revocation of right to issue nonassessable policies.
48.09.310 - Nonparticipating policies.
48.09.330 - Repayment of borrowed capital.
48.09.340 - Impairment of surplus.
48.09.350 - Reorganization of mutual as stock insurer—Reinsurance—Approval.
48.09.360 - Distribution of assets and ownership equities upon liquidation.