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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 22 - Insurance » Chapter 39 - Life Insurance and Annuities » Subchapter III - Standard Nonforfeiture Law of 2018 for Life Insurance

§ 1000a. Exceptions

(a) This subchapter does not apply to any of the following: (1) Reinsurance; (2) Group insurance; (3) Pure endowment; (4) Annuity or reversionary annuity contract; (5) A term policy of uniform amount, which provides no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof, of 20 years or less expiring before age 71, for which uniform […]

§ 1000b. Approval by Commissioner

Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in chapter 33, section 810 of this title or the requirement of any other provision in the laws of the Virgin Islands, any policy, contract or certificate providing life insurance under any plan must be affirmatively approved by the Commissioner before it can be marketed, issued, delivered, or used in […]

§ 991. Short title

This subchapter shall be known as “the Standard Nonforfeiture Law of 2018 for Life Insurance.”

§ 992. Definitions

The term “operative date of the valuation manual” means January 1st of the first calendar year that the valuation manual as defined in the Standard Valuation Law of 2018 is effective.

§ 993. Applicability of prior law

Notwithstanding any other requirements provided in the subchapter, the Standard Nonforfeiture Law adopted on March 29, 1968 and codified in section 984 of title 22 of the Virgin Islands Code, is applicable to nonforfeiture benefits under all life insurance policies issued before the effective date of this subchapter.

§ 994. Nonforfeiture benefits

(a) No life insurance policy issued on or after the effective date of this subchapter, except as stated in section 1000a, shall be delivered or issued for delivery in the Virgin Islands unless it contains in substance the provisions in paragraphs (1) through (6), or corresponding provisions which in the opinion of the Commissioner are […]

§ 995. Computation of cash surrender value

(a) Any cash surrender value available under the policy in the event of default in a premium payment due on any policy anniversary, whether or not required by section 994, is an amount not less than the excess, if any, of the present value, on the anniversary, of the future guaranteed benefits which would have […]

§ 996. Computation of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits

Any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit available under the policy in the event of default in a premium payment due on any policy anniversary is such that its present value as of the anniversary is at least equal to the cash surrender value then provided for by the policy or, if none is provided for, that cash […]

§ 998. Nonforfeiture benefits for indeterminate premium plans

Any plan of life insurance which provides for future premium determination, the amounts of which are to be determined by the insurance company based on estimates of future experience or for any plan of life insurance which is of such a nature that minimum values cannot be determined by the methods described in sections 994, […]

§ 999. Proration of values; net value of paid-up additions

Any cash surrender value and any paid up nonforfeiture benefit, valuable under the policy in the event of default in a premium payment due at any time other than the policy anniversary, are calculated with allowance for the lapse of time and the payment of fractional premiums beyond the last preceding policy anniversary. All values […]