(1) Except as otherwise
provided in subsection (2) of this section and in section 10-7-309.5, the minimum
standard for the valuation of all policies issued by any domestic or foreign life
insurance company, on or after the operative date provided in paragraph (b) of
subsection (2) of this section, must be the commissioners reserve valuation
methods defined in sections 10-7-310, 10-7-310.5, and 10-7-313, five percent
interest for group annuity and pure endowment contracts and three and one-half
percent interest for all other such policies and contracts, or in the case of policies
and contracts, other than annuity and pure endowment contracts, issued on or after
July 1, 1977, five and one-half percent interest for single-premium life insurance
policies and four and one-half percent interest for all other such policies, and the
following tables:
(a) For ordinary policies of life insurance issued on the standard basis,
excluding any disability or accidental death benefits in such policies: The
commissioners 1958 standard ordinary mortality table, but, for any category of
such policies issued on female risks, all modified net premiums and present values
referred to in this part 3 may be calculated, at the option of the company, according
to an age not more than six years younger than the actual age of the insured; and
for such policies issued on or after the operative date of section 10-7-305.1:
(I) The commissioners 1980 standard ordinary mortality table; or
(II) At the election of the company for any one or more specified plans of life
insurance, the commissioners 1980 standard ordinary mortality table with ten-year
select mortality factors; or
(III) Any ordinary mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is
approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the
minimum standard of valuation for such policies;
(b) For industrial life insurance policies issued on the standard basis,
excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in the policies: The 1941
standard industrial mortality table for policies issued prior to the operative date of
section 10-7-305 (5), and for policies issued on or after the operative date the
commissioners 1961 standard industrial mortality table or any industrial mortality
table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule promulgated by the
commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such
policies;
(c) For individual annuity and pure endowment policies, excluding any
disability and accidental death benefits in such policies: The 1937 standard annuity
mortality table or, at the option of the company, the annuity mortality table for
1949, ultimate, or any modification of either of these tables approved by the
commissioner;
(d) For group annuity and pure endowment policies, excluding any disability
and accidental death benefits in such policies: The group annuity mortality table for
1951, any modification of the table approved by the commissioner, or, at the option
of the company, any of the tables or modifications of tables specified for individual
annuity and pure endowment policies;
(e) For total and permanent disability benefits in or supplementary to
ordinary policies: The tables of period 2 disablement rates and the 1930 to 1950
termination rates of the 1952 disability study of the society of actuaries, with due
regard to the type of benefit, or any tables of disablement rates and termination
rates, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that are approved by rule promulgated by
the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for the
policies. Any table must, for active lives, be combined with a mortality table
permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies.
(f) For accidental death benefits in or supplementary to policies: The 1959
accidental death benefits table or any accidental death benefits table, adopted
after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner
for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies. Either
table shall be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the
reserves for life insurance policies.
(g) For group life insurance, life insurance issued on the substandard basis
and other special benefits: Such tables as may be approved by the commissioner.
(2) (a) Except as provided in section 10-7-309.5, the minimum standard of
valuation for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after
the operative date of this subsection (2), as defined in paragraph (b) of this
subsection (2), and for all annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after
said operative date under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, must be
the commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in sections 10-7-310 and 10-7-310.5 and the following tables and interest rates:
(I) For individual single-premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any
disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts: The 1971 individual
annuity mortality table, or any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980
by the NAIC, that is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in
determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any
modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and seven and one-half
percent interest;
(II) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts, other than single-premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental
death benefits in such contracts: The 1971 individual annuity mortality table, or any
individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved
by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum
standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of these tables
approved by the commissioner, and five and one-half percent interest for single-premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts and four and one-half
percent interest for all other such individual annuity and pure endowment
contracts;
(III) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased under group annuity
and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death
benefits purchased under such contracts: The 1971 group annuity mortality table, or
any group annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC, that is approved
by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum
standard of valuation for such annuities and pure endowments, or any modification
of these tables approved by the commissioner, and seven and one-half percent
interest.
(b) On or after July 1, 1977, any company may file with the commissioner a
written notice of its election to comply with the provisions of this subsection (2)
after a specified date but before January 1, 1979, which is the operative date of this
subsection (2) for a company, but a company may elect a different operative date
for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts from that elected for group
annuity and pure endowment contracts. If a company makes no such election, the
operative date of this subsection (2) for such company is January 1, 1979.