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Section 743.039 – Alteration of application for life or health insurance.

(1) An application for a life insurance policy may not provide for alterations by any person other than the applicant in either the application or the policy to be issued thereon with respect to the amount of insurance, classification of risk, plan of insurance or the benefits unless the application contains a statement that no […]

Section 743.040 – Personal insurance, insurable interest and beneficiaries.

(1) Any individual of competent legal capacity may procure or effect an insurance policy on the individual’s own life or body for the benefit of any person. However, except as provided in ORS 743.044, no person shall procure or cause to be procured any insurance policy upon the life or body of another unless the […]

Section 743.041 – Payment discharges insurer.

Whenever the proceeds of or payments under a life or health insurance policy become payable in accordance with the terms of such policy, or the exercise of any right or privilege under such policy, and the insurer makes payment in accordance with the terms of the policy or in accordance with any written assignment of […]

Section 743.042

[1967 c.359 §347; 1985 c.465 §1; renumbered 742.013 in 1989]

Section 743.043 – Assignment of policies.

A policy may be assignable or not assignable, as provided by its terms. Subject to its terms relating to assignability, any life or health insurance policy, under the terms of which the beneficiary may be changed upon the sole request of the insured or owner, may be assigned either by pledge or transfer of title, […]

Section 743.044 – Life insurance for benefit of charity.

(1) Life insurance policies may be effected although the person paying the consideration has no insurable interest in the life of the person insured if a charitable, benevolent, educational or religious institution is designated irrevocably as the beneficiary. (2) In making such policies the person paying the premium shall make and sign the application therefor […]

Section 743.045

[Formerly 736.305; 1971 c.231 §22; 1985 c.465 §2; renumbered 742.016 in 1989]

Section 743.047 – Exemption of proceeds of group life insurance.

(1) A policy of group life insurance or the proceeds thereof payable to a person or persons other than the individual insured or the individual’s estate shall be exempt from debts and claims of creditors or representatives of the individual insured and, in the event of bankruptcy of the individual insured, from all demands in […]

Section 743.050 – Exemption of proceeds of health insurance.

Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the policy, the proceeds or avails of all health insurance policies and of provisions providing benefits on account of the insured’s disability which are supplemental to life insurance policies, issued before, on or after June 8, 1967, shall be exempt from all liability for any debt of […]

Section 743.056

[2011 c.30 §2; 2013 c.5 §§15,16; renumbered 742.407 in 2015]