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Section 377.210 – Organization — powers.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.210. Organization — powers. — Any number of persons, not less than seven, a majority of whom being citizens and residents of the state of Missouri, may associate themselves and form a company, for the purpose of making insurance on the lives of individuals, and every insurance pertaining thereto or […]

Section 377.230 – Completion of organization.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.230. Completion of organization. — 1. No such corporation, company or association shall commence the business of life insurance until at least two hundred persons, eligible under the proposed plan of organization, shall have subscribed, in writing, to be insured therein in the aggregate amount of at least two hundred […]

Section 377.240 – Withdrawals of securities upon relinquishment of business.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.240. Withdrawals of securities upon relinquishment of business. — 1. When any such corporation, company or association shall desire to relinquish its business in this state, the director shall, on application of such corporation under oath of its president or principal officer and secretary or actuary, give notice of such […]

Section 377.250 – Minimum premiums.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.250. Minimum premiums. — 1. Every corporation, company or association doing business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall charge a mortuary premium at least equal to that of yearly term insurance at age of entry according to the actuaries’ or combined experience mortality table, with interest at […]

Section 377.260 – Emergency fund — extra premium — commutation of policies.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.260. Emergency fund — extra premium — commutation of policies. — 1. After the first policy year the mortuary premium, according to the terms of premium payments of each policy, with the loading of the same as provided in section 377.250, together with all interest and other accumulations of said […]

Section 377.270 – Limited payment policies — reserve — deposit.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.270. Limited payment policies — reserve — deposit. — 1. Any corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 may issue limited payment or any form of investment policies; provided, that the premiums shall not be less than the net term rate for the […]

Section 377.280 – Surrender values.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.280. Surrender values. — Any corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460, may allow cash values on its policies or the equivalent of the cash value in extended or paid-up insurance to the extent of the unused portion of the emergency fund equitably […]

Section 377.290 – Distribution of surplus.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.290. Distribution of surplus. — Any corporation, company or association may provide for a return of any surplus accumulations on its limited payment or investment policies, which may be returned as a dividend, or in extended, paid-up or increased insurance. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 5878) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5767; […]

Section 377.310 – Examinations — beneficiary — change in beneficiary — charitable, benevolent, educational and religious organizations have insurable interest — fraud or coercion, exception.

Effective – 28 Aug 1997 377.310. Examinations — beneficiary — change in beneficiary — charitable, benevolent, educational and religious organizations have insurable interest — fraud or coercion, exception. — 1. No corporation, company or association transacting business pursuant to sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall issue a certificate or policy to any person until the applicant […]

Section 377.320 – Policy incontestable after one year.

Effective – 28 Aug 1949 377.320. Policy incontestable after one year. — In the event of death after any policy of insurance has been issued by any corporation, company or association, doing business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460, and after the policy has been in force for the period of one full […]

Section 377.330 – Proceeds not liable for debts.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.330. Proceeds not liable for debts. — The money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any corporation authorized to do business under sections 377.200 to 377.460, shall not be liable to attachment or other process, and shall not be seized, taken, appropriated […]

Section 377.340 – Misrepresentations.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.340. Misrepresentations. — No representation made in obtaining or securing a policy of insurance on the life or lives of any person or persons shall be deemed material, or render the policy void, unless the matter misrepresented shall have actually contributed to the contingency or event on which the policy […]

Section 377.350 – Copy of application.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.350. Copy of application. — Every corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall, upon the issuance of every policy, attach to such policy or endorse thereon the substance of the application upon which such policy was issued, and which is made a […]

Section 377.360 – Discriminations prohibited — duty of director and attorney general.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.360. Discriminations prohibited — duty of director and attorney general. — 1. No corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall make any discrimination in favor of holders of the same kind of policies, or persons of the same expectation of life, neither […]

Section 377.370 – Personal liability.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.370. Personal liability. — No person shall incur any personal liabilities for the losses or liabilities of any corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 by reason of being a member or policyholder in such corporation. ­­——– (RSMo 1939 § 5880) Prior revisions: […]

Section 377.380 – Annual report.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 377.380. Annual report. — The annual business of each and every corporation, company or association transacting business under the provisions of sections 377.200 to 377.460 shall close on the thirty-first day of December of each year, and it shall, within sixty days thereafter, prepare and file in the office of […]