South Dakota § 58-16-42 Payment of death benefit--Designated beneficiary--Person incurring expenses incident to last illness or death.

South Dakota Statutes

§ 58-16-42 — Payment of death benefit--Designated beneficiary--Person incurring expenses incident to last illness or death.

South Dakota § 58-16-42

Title 58INSURANCE

Ch. 58-13GROUP LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES

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S.D. Codified Laws § 58-16-42 (2026).

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Except as provided in § 58-16-31 , a policy of group life insurance shall contain a provision that any sum becoming due by reason of the death of the person insured shall be payable to the beneficiary designated by the person insured, subject to the provisions of the policy in the event there is no designated beneficiary, as to all or any part of such sum, living at the death of the person insured, and subject to any right reserved by the insurer in the policy and set forth in the certificate to pay at its option a part of such sum not exceeding five hundred dollars to any person appearing to the insurer to be equitably entitled thereto by reason of having incurred funeral or other expenses incident to the last illness or death of the person insured.

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Except as provided in § 58-16-31 , a policy of group life insurance shall contain a provision that any sum becoming due by reason of the death of the person insured shall be payable to the beneficiary designated by the person insured, subject to the provisions of the policy in the event there is no designated beneficiary, as to all or any part of such sum, living at the death of the person insured, and subject to any right reserved by the insurer in the policy and set forth in the certificate to pay at its option a part of such sum not exceeding five hundred dollars to any person appearing to the insurer to be equitably entitled thereto by reason of having incurred funeral or other expenses incident to the last illness or death of the person insured.