§ 3788 - Minimum reserves - Vermont Statutes

§ 3788. Minimum reserves

(a) If in any contract year the gross premium charged by any life insurance company on any policy or contract is less than the valuation net premium for the policy or contract calculated by the method used in calculating the reserve thereon but using the minimum valuation standards of mortality and rate of interest, the minimum reserve required for such policy or contract shall be the greater of either the reserve calculated according to the mortality table, rate of interest, and method actually used for such policy or contract, or the reserve calculated by the method actually used for such policy or contract but using the minimum valuation standards of mortality and rate of interest and replacing the valuation net premium by the actual gross premium in each contract year for which the valuation net premium exceeds the actual gross premium. The minimum valuation standards of mortality and rate of interest referred to in this section are those standards stated in sections 3784 and 3784a of this title.

(b) Provided that for any life insurance policy issued on or after January 1, 1987 for which the gross premium in the first policy year exceeds that of the second year and for which no comparable additional benefit is provided in the first year for such excess and which provides an endowment benefit or a cash surrender value or a combination thereof in an amount greater than such excess premium, the foregoing provisions of this section shall be applied as if the method actually used in calculating the reserve for such policy were the method described in section 3785 of this title, ignoring subsection (b) of section 3785. The minimum reserve at each policy anniversary of such a policy shall be the greater of the minimum reserve calculated in accordance with section 3785, including subsection (b) of that section, and the minimum reserve calculated in accordance with this section. (1967, No. 344 (Adj. Sess.), § 1 (ch. 2, subch. 5, § 8); amended 1981, No. 43, § 8, eff. April 21, 1981; 1983, No. 27, § 6.)