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2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 22:175 — Group life insurance defined; eligibility; payment of premiums; limits and coverage
View Current Version§175. Group life insurance defined; eligibility; payment of premiums; limits and coverage
A. A policy of group life insurance may be issued to any of the following groups or combination thereof, or to the trustees thereof who shall be deemed the policyholder:
(1) Employees or retired employees of any employer or subsidiary employer, individual proprietors or partners if the employee is an individual proprietor or partnership. Directors shall not be considered as employees unless they perform substantial duties for the employer in addition to those usually performed as directors.
(2) Full privileged and contributing members or employees of members of any organization or association which has been formed for purposes other than procuring insurance for the members or employees.
(3) Life insurance covering only the lives of all members of a group of persons, numbering not less than ten new entrants to the group yearly, who become borrowers from one financial institution, including subsidiary or affiliated companies, or who become purchasers of securities, merchandise, or other property from one vendor under agreement to repay the sum borrowed or to pay the balance of the price of the securities, merchandise, or other property purchased, whether in installments or in a single sum on a stated date, to the extent of their indebtedness to said financial institution or vendor, written under a policy which may be issued upon the application of and made payable to the financial institution or vendor or other creditor to whom such vendor may have transferred title to the indebtedness, as beneficiary, the premium on such policy to be payable by the financial institution, vendor, or other creditor, either from funds of the financial institution, vendor, or other creditor, or from charges collected from the insured debtors or from both.
(4) Life insurance covering the members of one or more companies, batteries, troops, or other units of the national guard of any state, written under a policy issued to the commanding general of the national guard who shall be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of this section, the premium on which is to be paid by the members of such units for the benefit of persons other than the employer.
B. Each policy of group life insurance may cover one or more employees or members at date of issue.
(1) The amounts of insurance under the policy must be based upon some plan precluding individual selection, either by the insurer, member, employer, or trustee.
(2) The premium for the policy shall be paid by the policyholder either wholly from the policyholder's funds or funds contributed by him, partially from such funds and partially from funds contributed by the insureds or from funds contributed entirely by the insureds.
(3) A policy on which all or a part of the premium is to be derived from funds contributed by the insured employees may be placed in force, excluding any employee as to whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer. A policy on which no part of the premium is to be derived from funds contributed by the insured employees must insure all eligible employees, or all except as to whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the insurer. An insurer may but shall not be required to establish a percentage of eligible employees who are required to enroll and participate in a group policy if the entire premium is not paid by the employer.
(4) The persons eligible for group insurance, except for that insurance issued pursuant to Paragraph A(3) of this Section shall be all the employees of an employer or all the members of any association or employees of such members, or all of any class or classes thereof determined by conditions pertaining to their employment or membership.
(5) The policy shall be issued to insure lives for the benefits of persons other than the employer or association, except those policies issued pursuant to Paragraph A(3) of this Section in which case benefits shall be paid to the creditor as his interest may appear.
(6) Any policy issued under this section may provide for the readjustment of the rate of premium based on the experience thereunder at the end of the first year or of any subsequent year of insurance thereunder and such readjustment may be made retroactive only for such policy year. Any refund on any plan for readjustment of the rate of premium based on the experience of the group policies hereafter issued, and any dividend paid under such policies may be used to reduce the employer's share of the cost of coverage, except that if the aggregate refunds or dividends under such group policy and in any other group policy or contract issued to the policyholder exceed the aggregate contributions of the employer toward the cost of the coverages, such excess shall be applied by the policyholder for the sole benefit of insured employees.
(7) Insurance under any group life insurance policy except those policies issued pursuant to Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section, may, if seventy-five percent of the then insured employees or members who have eligible dependents elect, be extended to insure the spouse and minor children of the insured in amounts in accordance with the plan which precludes individual selection by the employees or members or by the employer or trustee.
Acts 1958, No. 125. Amended by Acts 1958, No. 99, §1; Acts 1962, No. 38, §1; Acts 1962, No. 158, §1; Acts 1962, No. 307, §1; Acts 1966, No. 170, §1; Acts 1968, No. 656, §1; Acts 1970, No. 399, §1; Acts 1972, No. 151, §1; Acts 1975, No. 555, §1; Acts 1977, No. 309, §1; Acts 1980, No. 656, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1184, §3; Acts 1999, No. 474, §1; Acts 2001, No. 180, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.