§ 38a-631 — (Formerly Sec. 38-224). Types of benefits authorized.

(1) A society authorized to do business in this state may provide for the payment of: (a) Death benefits in any form; (b) endowment benefits; (c) annuity benefits; (d) temporary or permanent disability benefits as a result of disease or accident; (e) hospital, medical or nursing benefits due to sickness or bodily infirmity or accident; and (f) monument or tombstone benefits to the memory of deceased members not exceeding in any case the sum of three hundred dollars. (2) Such benefits may be provided on the lives of members or, upon application of a member, on the lives of the member's family, including the member, the member's spouse and minor children, in the same or separate certificates. See Sec. 38a-444 re interest rates on loans. See Sec. 38a-504 re insurance policy or contract requirements covering surgical removal of tumors and treatment of leukemia.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 6244; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 14; March, 1958, P.A. 9, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 61, S. 5.) History: 1959 act repealed former age limit requirements in Subdiv.(1)(d), (e) and (f) and clarified the application of Subdiv. (2) to the lives of members or their families; Sec. 38-224 transferred to Sec. 38a-631 in 1991. Annotation to former section 38-224: “Endowment” defined; held not to include a variable endowment plan in which a portion of premiums is allocated to a fund for investment and a number of units in such invested fund is then attributed to the insured. 144 C. 346.