West Virginia Code
Article 23. Fraternal Benefit Societies
§33-23-2. Applicability of Other Provisions

Every fraternal benefit society shall be governed and be subject to the same extent as other insurers transacting like kinds of insurance, to the following articles of this chapter: Article one (definitions); article two (Insurance Commissioner); article four (general provisions); section thirty, article six (fee for form and rate filing); article seven (assets and liabilities); article ten (rehabilitation and liquidation); article eleven (unfair trade practices); article twelve (agents, brokers, solicitors and excess lines); article thirteen (life insurance); article thirteen-a (variable contracts); article fifteen-a (long-term care insurance); article twenty-seven (insurance holding company systems); article thirty-three (annual audited financial report); article thirty-four (administrative supervision); article thirty-four-a (standards and commissioner's authority for companies considered to be in hazardous financial condition); article thirty-five(criminal sanctions for failure to report impairment); article thirty-seven(managing general agents); and article thirty-nine (disclosure of material transactions).

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 33. Insurance

Article 23. Fraternal Benefit Societies

§33-23-1. Scope of Article

§33-23-2. Applicability of Other Provisions

§33-23-2a. Applicability of Insurance Fraud Prevention Act

§33-23-3. Fraternal Benefit Societies Defined

§33-23-4. Lodge System Defined

§33-23-5. Representative Form of Government Defined

§33-23-6. Organization

§33-23-7. Retention of Corporate Powers by Existing Incorporated Societies

§33-23-8. Incorporation of Existing Voluntary Associations

§33-23-9. Office and Meetings of Domestic Society

§33-23-10. Consolidations and Mergers

§33-23-11. Conversion of Society to Mutual Life Insurer

§33-23-12. Qualifications for Benefit Membership

§33-23-13. Amendment of Articles of Incorporation, Constitution or Laws

§33-23-14. Operation of Charitable, Benevolent or Educational Institutions

§33-23-15. Payment of Benefits Other Than Insurance Benefits

§33-23-16. No Personal Liability for Payment of Benefits

§33-23-17. Kinds of Benefits Authorized

§33-23-18. Benefits on Lives of Children

§33-23-19. Nonforfeiture Benefits, Cash Surrender Values, Loans and Options

§33-23-20. Beneficiaries

§33-23-21. Benefits Not Liable to Process

§33-23-22. Certificates and Agreement With Members

§33-23-23. Approval of Certificates; Standard and Prohibited Provisions

§33-23-24. Filing and Approval of Accident and Sickness Insurance Certificates

§33-23-25. Waiver of Laws and Constitution of Society

§33-23-26. Reinsurance

§33-23-27. Licensing of Foreign and Alien Societies

§33-23-28. Term of License; Renewal, Refusal, Revocation or Suspension; Penalty in Lieu Thereof; Reissuance

§33-23-29. Fees; Exemption of Funds and Assets From Taxation

§33-23-30. Use of Funds

§33-23-31. Investments

§33-23-32. Reports and Synopses of Annual Statements; Valuations

§33-23-33. Agents

§33-23-34. Exemption of Certain Societies

§33-23-35. Continuum of Care Services