§ 56-7-309 — Life insurance - Policies for one-year preliminary term insurance - Reserve value

(a) This section applies only to policies of life insurance issued prior to the operative date of § 56-7-401 , the Standard Nonforfeiture Law. (b) Policies may be issued in this state providing for not more than one-year preliminary term insurance by the incorporation in the policy of a clause on the face of the policy distinctly specifying that the first year's insurance is term insurance. (c) If the premium charged for term insurance under a limited payment life or endowment preliminary term policy, providing for the payment of all premiums in less than twenty (20) years from the date of the policy, exceeds that charged for like insurance under twenty (20) pay life preliminary term policies of the same company at the same age, the reserve at the end of any year, including the first, shall not be less than the reserve on a twenty (20) pay life preliminary term policy issued in the same year and at the same age, together with an amount equivalent to the accumulation of a net level premium sufficient to provide for a pure endowment at the end of the premium payment period equal to the difference between the value at the end of the period for the twenty (20) pay life preliminary term policy and the full reserve at the time of the limited payment life or endowment policy.

Legislative History

Acts 1907, ch. 457, § 3; Shan., § 3348a10; Code 1932, § 6181; Acts 1945, ch. 56, § 4; C. Supp. 1950, § 6181; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 56-1120.