44-372 Life insurance; annuity; nonpayment of premium; effect. - Nebraska Statutes

44-372. Life insurance; annuity; nonpayment of premium; effect.Any policy containing a provision for a deferred annuity on the life of the insured only, unless paid for by a single premium, shall provide that in the event of the nonpayment of any premium after three full years' premium shall have been paid, the annuity shall automatically become converted into a paid-up annuity for such proportion of the original annuity as the number of completed years' premiums paid bears to the total number of premiums required under the contract. SourceLaws 1913, c. 154, § 146, p. 469; R.S.1913, § 3283; Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. V, art. XI, § 11, p. 651; C.S.1922, § 7890; C.S.1929, § 44-1111; R.S.1943, § 44-372.AnnotationsLegislature has used the word premiums as descriptive of the payment on annuity contracts. Bankers Life Ins. Co. v. Laughlin, 160 Neb. 480, 70 N.W.2d 474 (1955).