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§ 38.2-1365. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: “Accident and health insurance” means contracts that incorporate morbidity risk and provide protection against economic loss resulting from accident, sickness, or medical conditions and as may be specified in the valuation manual. “Appointed actuary” means a qualified actuary who is appointed in accordance […]

§ 38.2-1366. Reserve valuation

A. For policies and contracts issued prior to the operative date of the valuation manual: 1. The Commission shall annually value, or cause to be valued, the reserve liabilities (hereinafter called reserves) for all outstanding life insurance policies and annuity and pure endowment contracts of every life insurance company doing business in the Commonwealth issued […]

§ 38.2-1367. Actuarial opinion of reserves

A. The actuarial opinion prior to the operative date of the valuation manual shall require: 1. Every life insurance company doing business in the Commonwealth to annually submit the opinion of a qualified actuary as to whether the reserves and related actuarial items held in support of the policies and contracts specified by the Commission […]

§ 38.2-1368. Minimum valuation standard for policies issued prior to certain dates

The following provisions of this section shall apply only to those policies and contracts issued prior to the operative date stated in § 38.2-3214: 1. The legal minimum standard for the valuation of life insurance contracts issued prior to January 1, 1937, shall be on the basis of the American Experience Table of Mortality, with […]

§ 38.2-1369. Computation of minimum standard

Except as otherwise provided in §§ 38.2-1370, 38.2-1371, and 38.2-1378, the minimum standard for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued on or after the operative date stated in § 38.2-3214 shall be the Commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in §§ 38.2-1372, 38.2-1373, 38.2-1376, and 38.2-1378, three and one-half percent interest, or in the […]

§ 38.2-1370. Computation of minimum standard for annuities

A. Except as provided in § 38.2-1371, the minimum standard of valuation for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the operative date of this section and for annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after the operative date under group annuity and pure endowment contracts shall be the Commissioners reserve valuation […]

§ 38.2-1371. Computation of minimum standard by calendar year of issue

A. The interest rates used in determining the minimum standard for the valuation of the following shall be the calendar year statutory valuation interest rates determined as provided in subsection B: 1. Life insurance policies issued in a particular calendar year on or after the operative date of § 38.2-3209; 2. Individual annuity and pure […]

§ 38.2-1372. Reserve valuation method; life insurance and endowment benefits

A. Except as otherwise provided in §§ 38.2-1373, 38.2-1376, and 38.2-1378, reserves according to the Commissioners reserve valuation method for the life insurance and endowment benefits of policies providing for a uniform amount of insurance and requiring the payment of uniform premiums shall be the excess, if any, of the present value, at the date […]

§ 38.2-1373. Reserve valuation method; annuity and pure endowment benefits

A. This section shall apply to all annuity and pure endowment contracts other than group annuity and pure endowment contracts purchased under a retirement plan or plan of deferred compensation, established or maintained by an employer, including a partnership or sole proprietorship, or by an employee organization, or both, other than a plan providing individual […]

§ 38.2-1374. Minimum reserves

A. In no event shall an insurer’s aggregate reserves for all life insurance policies, excluding disability and accidental death benefits, be less than the aggregate reserves calculated in accordance with the methods set forth in §§ 38.2-1372, 38.2-1373, 38.2-1376, and 38.2-1377 and the mortality table or tables and rate or rates of interest used in […]

§ 38.2-1375. Optional reserve calculation

A. Reserves for any category of policies, contracts, or benefits as established by the Commission may be calculated, at the insurer’s option, according to any standards that produce greater aggregate reserves for the category than those calculated according to the minimum standard provided in this article, but the rate or rates of interest used for […]

§ 38.2-1377. Reserve calculation; indeterminate premium plans

In the case of a plan of life insurance that provides for future premium determination, the amounts of which are to be determined by the insurance company based on then estimates of future experience, or in the case of a plan of life insurance or annuity that is of such a nature that the minimum […]

§ 38.2-1378. Minimum standard for accident and health insurance contracts

For accident and health insurance contracts issued on or after the operative date of the valuation manual, the standard prescribed in the valuation manual is the minimum standard of valuation required under subsection B of § 38.2-1366. For disability and accident and sickness insurance contracts issued on or after January 1, 1937, and prior to […]

§ 38.2-1380. Requirements of a principle-based valuation

A. An insurer shall establish reserves using a principle-based valuation that meets the following conditions for policies or contracts as specified in the valuation manual: 1. Quantify the benefits and guarantees, and the funding, associated with the contracts and their risks at a level of conservatism that reflects conditions that include unfavorable events that have […]

§ 38.2-1382. Confidentiality

A. For purposes of this section, “confidential information” means: 1. A memorandum in support of an opinion submitted under § 38.2-1367 and any other documents, materials, and other information, including all working papers, and copies thereof, created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to the Commission or any other person in connection with such memorandum; […]

§ 38.2-1383. Single state exemption

A. The Commission may exempt specific product forms or product lines of a domestic insurer that is licensed and doing business only in the Commonwealth from the requirements of § 38.2-1379 provided: 1. The Commission has issued an exemption in writing to the insurer and has not subsequently revoked the exemption in writing; and 2. […]

§ 38.2-1384. Assessment against insurers whose policies are valued

The Commission is hereby authorized to assess against every insurer whose policies are valued a sum equal to the cost of valuation, which shall be collected by the Commission and paid directly into the state treasury and credited to the “Bureau of Insurance Special Fund — State Corporation Commission” for the maintenance of the Bureau […]