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NH Rev Stat § 418:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:21 - Funds.

    418:21 Funds. –||I. All assets shall be held, invested, and disbursed for the use and benefit of the society and no member or beneficiary shall have or acquire individual rights therein or become entitled to any apportionment on the surrender of any part thereof, except as provided in the benefit contract.||II. A society may create, maintain, invest, disburse and apply any special fund or funds necessary to carry out any purpose permitted by the laws of such society.||III. A society may, pursuant to resolution of its supreme governing body, establish and operate one or more separate accounts and issue contracts on a variable basis, subject to the provisions of RSA 408 regulating life insurers establishing such accounts and issuing such contracts. To the extent the society deems it necessary in order to comply with any applicable federal or state laws, or any rules issued thereunder, the society may adopt special procedures for the conduct of the business and affairs of a separate account, may, for persons having beneficial interests therein, provide special voting and other rights, including without limitation special rights and procedures relating to investment policy, investment advisory services, selection of certified public accountants, and selection of a committee to manage the business and affairs of the account, and may issue contracts on a variable basis to which RSA 418:18, II and IV shall not apply.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:22 - Exemptions.

    418:22 Exemptions. –||Except as provided in this chapter, and except for RSA 405:53 through 405:60, inclusive, which are herein incorporated and made applicable hereto, societies shall be governed by this chapter and shall be exempt from all provisions of the insurance laws of this state not only in governmental relations with the state, but for every other purpose, and no law hereafter enacted shall apply to them unless they be expressly designated therein.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:23 - Taxation.

    418:23 Taxation. –||Every society organized or licensed under this chapter is hereby declared to be a charitable and benevolent institution, and all of its funds shall be exempt from all and every state, county, and municipal tax, other than taxes on real estate and office equipment.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:24 - Valuation.

    418:24 Valuation. –||I. Standards of valuation for certificates issued prior to one year after the effective date of this chapter shall be those provided by the laws applicable immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter.||II. The minimum standards of valuation for certificates issued on or after one year from the effective date of this chapter shall be based on the following tables:||(a) For certificates of life insurance, the Commissioner's 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioner's 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table, the Commissioner's 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the Commissioner's 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table or any more recent table made applicable to life insurers.||(b) For annuity and pure endowment certificates, for total and permanent disability benefits, for accidental death benefits, and for non-cancellable accident and health benefits, such tables as are authorized for use by life insurers in this state.||(c) All of the above shall be under valuation methods and standards (including interest assumptions) in accordance with the laws of this state applicable to life insurers issuing policies containing like benefits.||III. The commissioner may, in his or her discretion, accept other standards for valuation if the commissioner finds that the reserves produced thereby will not be less in the aggregate than reserves computed in accordance with the minimum valuation standard herein prescribed. The commissioner may, in his or her discretion, vary the standards of mortality applicable to all benefit contracts on substandard lives or other extra hazardous lives by any society authorized to do business in this state.||IV. Any society, with the consent of the commissioner of the state of domicile of the society and under such conditions, if any, which the commissioner may impose, may establish and maintain reserves on its certificates in excess of the reserves required thereunder, but the contractual rights of any benefit member shall not be affected thereby.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:25 - Reports.

    418:25 Reports. –||Reports shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of this section:||I. Every society transacting business in this state shall annually, on or before March 1, unless for cause shown such time has been extended by the commissioner, file with the commissioner of insurance a true statement of its financial condition, transactions and affairs for the preceding calendar year. The statement shall be in general form and context as approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners for fraternal benefit societies and as supplemented by additional information required by the commissioner.||II. As part of the annual statement herein required, each society shall, on or before March 1, file with the commissioner a valuation of its certificates in force on December 31 last preceding, provided the commissioner may, in his or her discretion for cause shown, extend the time for filing such valuation for not more than 2 calendar months. Such valuation shall be done in accordance with the standards specified in RSA 418:24. Such valuation and underlying data shall be certified by a qualified actuary or, at the expense of the society, verified by the actuary of the department of insurance of the state of domicile of the society.||III. A society neglecting to file the annual statement in the form and within the time provided by this section shall forfeit $100 for each day during which such neglect continues, and, upon notice by the commissioner to that effect, its authority to do business in this state shall cease while such default continues.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:26 - Annual License.

    418:26 Annual License. –||On compliance with the foregoing conditions and if the society is found upon examination made by or under the direction of the commissioner to have complied with the laws of the state applicable to it, a license to transact business in this state shall be issued until June 14 thereafter. Annually thereafter, on June 15, such license may be renewed so long as the society shall comply with the requirements of the law and the commissioner shall regard it as safe, reliable, and entitled to confidence; provided, however, a license so issued shall continue in full force and effect until the new license be issued or specifically refused. No unincorporated or voluntary society shall be permitted to transact business in this state. A duly certified copy or duplicate of such license shall be prima facie evidence that the licensee is a fraternal benefit society within the meaning of this chapter.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:27 - Examination of Domestic Societies; No Adverse Publications.

    418:27 Examination of Domestic Societies;  No Adverse Publications. –||I. The commissioner, or any person he or she may appoint, may examine any domestic, foreign or alien society transacting or applying for admission to transact business in this state in the same manner as provided in RSA 400-A:37 and RSA 400-A:38 for examination of domestic, foreign or alien insurers. Requirements of notice and an opportunity to respond before findings are made public as provided in the laws regulating insurers shall also be applicable to the examination of societies.||II. The expense of each examination and of each valuation, including compensation and actual expense of examiners, shall be paid by the society examined or whose certificates are valued, upon statements furnished by the commissioner.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:28 - Foreign or Alien Society Admission.

    418:28 Foreign or Alien Society Admission. –||I. No foreign or alien society shall transact business in this state without a license issued by the commissioner. Any such society desiring admission to this state shall comply substantially with the requirements and limitations of this chapter applicable to domestic societies. Any such society may be licensed to transact business in this state upon filing with the commissioner:||(a) A duly certified copy of its articles of incorporation;||(b) A copy of its bylaws, certified by its secretary or corresponding officer;||(c) A power of attorney to the commissioner as prescribed in RSA 418:33;||(d) A statement of its business under oath of its president and secretary or corresponding officers in a form prescribed by the commissioner, duly verified by an examination made by the supervising insurance official of its home state or other state, territory, province or country, satisfactory to the commissioner of insurance of this state;||(e) Certification from the proper official of its home state, territory, province or country that the society is legally incorporated and licensed to transact business therein;||(f) Copies of its certificate forms; and||(g) Such other information as the commissioner may deem necessary; and upon a showing that its assets are invested in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.||II. For each such license or renewal, the society shall pay the commissioner $100.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:29 - Suspension or Revocation of License.

    418:29 Suspension or Revocation of License. –||I. When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a domestic, foreign or alien society has exceeded its powers; has failed to comply with any provision of this chapter; is not fulfilling its contracts in good faith; has a membership of less than 400 after an existence of one year or more; or is conducting business fraudulently or in a manner hazardous to its members, creditors, the public or the business; the commissioner shall notify the society of such deficiency or deficiencies and state in writing the reasons for his or her dissatisfaction.||II. The commissioner shall at once issue a written notice to the society requiring that the deficiency or deficiencies which exist are corrected. After such notice the society shall have a 30-day period in which to comply with the commissioner's request for correction, and if the society fails to comply the commissioner shall notify the society of such findings of noncompliance and require the society to show cause, on a date named, why its license should not be suspended or revoked until the violation complained of shall have been corrected.||III. If on the date named in the notice such objections have not been removed to the satisfaction of the commissioner, or the society does not present good and sufficient reason why its authority to transact business in this state should not at that time be suspended or revoked, the commissioner may either suspend or revoke the authority of the society to continue business in this state.||IV. Nothing contained in this section shall be taken or construed as preventing any such society from continuing in good faith all contracts made in this state during the time such society was legally authorized to transact business herein.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:30 - Injunction.

    418:30 Injunction. –||No application or petition for injunction against any domestic, foreign or alien society, or lodge thereof, shall be recognized in any court of this state unless made by the attorney general upon request of the commissioner.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:31 - Licensing of Agents.

    418:31 Licensing of Agents. –||I. Agents of societies shall be licensed in accordance with the provisions of RSA 402-J regulating the licensing, revocation, suspension or termination of license of resident and nonresident agents.||II. Any person who acts in violation of this section shall, in addition to any penalties or forfeiture with the power of the commissioner, be subject to the provisions of RSA 402-J and RSA 408:8.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:32 - Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices.

    418:32 Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices. –||Every society authorized to do business in this state shall be subject to the provisions of RSA 417, relating to unfair insurance trade practices; provided, however, that nothing in such provisions shall be construed as applying to or affecting the right of any society to determine its eligibility requirements for membership, or be construed as applying to or affecting the offering of benefits exclusively to members or persons eligible for membership in the society by a subsidiary corporation or affiliated organization of the society.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:33 - Service of Process.

    418:33 Service of Process. –||I. Every society authorized to do business in this state shall appoint in writing the commissioner and each successor in office to be its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it shall be served, and shall agree in such writing that any lawful process against it which is served on said attorney shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the society, and that the authority shall continue in force so long as any liability remains outstanding in this state. Copies of such appointment, certified by the commissioner, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof and shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as the original thereof might be admitted.||II. Service shall only be made upon the commissioner, or if absent, upon the person in charge of the commissioner's office. It shall be made in duplicate and shall constitute sufficient service upon the society. When legal process against a society is served upon the commissioner, the commissioner shall forthwith forward one of the duplicate copies by registered mail, prepaid, directed to the secretary or corresponding officer. No such service shall require a society to file its answer, pleading or defense in less than 14 days from the date of mailing the copy of the service to a society. Legal process shall not be served upon a society except in the manner under this section.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:34 - Review.

    418:34 Review. –||All decisions and findings of the commissioner made under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to review by proper proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:36 - Exemption of Certain Societies.

    418:36 Exemption of Certain Societies. –||I. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to affect or apply to:||(a) Grand or subordinate lodges of societies, orders or associations now doing business in this state which provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges;||(b) Orders, societies or associations which admit to membership only persons engaged in one or more crafts or hazardous occupations, in the same or similar lines of business, insuring only their own members and their families, and the ladies' societies or ladies' auxiliaries to such orders, societies or associations;||(c) Domestic societies which limit their membership to employees of a particular city or town, designated firm, business house or corporation or which provide for a death benefit of not more than $400 or disability benefits of not more than $350 to any person in any one year, or both; or||(d) Domestic societies or associations of a purely religious, charitable or benevolent description, which provide for a death benefit of not more than $400 or for disability benefits of not more than $350 to any one person in any one year, or both.||II. Any such society or association described in subparagraph I(c) or (d) which provides for death or disability benefits for which benefit certificates are issued, and any such society or association included in subparagraph I(d) which has more than 1,000 members, shall not be exempted from the provisions of this chapter but shall comply with all requirements of this chapter.||III. No society which is exempt from the requirements of this chapter, except any society described in subparagraphs I(a) and (b), shall give or allow, or promise to give or allow to any person any compensation for procuring new members.||IV. Every society heretofore organized and incorporated, and which provides for benefits in case of death or disability resulting solely from accident, and which does not obligate itself to pay natural death or sick benefits shall have all of the privileges and be subject to all the applicable provisions and regulations of this chapter except that the provisions thereof relating to medical examination, valuations of benefit certificates, and incontestability, shall not apply to such society.||V. The commissioner may require from any society or association, by examination or otherwise, such information as will enable the commissioner to determine whether such society or association is exempt from the provisions of this chapter.||VI. Societies exempted under the provisions of this section shall also be exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this state.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 418:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 418 - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 418:37 - Severability.

    418:37 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid, the invalidity shall not affect any other provision or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 2003, 182:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 420-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 420-A - Health Service Corporations|Section 420-A:1 - Definitions.

    420-A:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Commissioner" means the insurance commissioner.||II. "Covered dependent" means the spouse, an adult dependent, or a child or an adopted child of the subscriber who is named in the subscription certificate issued to the subscriber and with respect to whom appropriate premium is specified in the certificate.||II-a. "Date of enrollment" means the first day of coverage under the plan, or, if there is a waiting period, the first day of the waiting period, which is typically the first day of work.||III. "Health service corporation" means a nonprofit sharing corporation without capital stock organized under the laws of the state for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and operating a health service plan or plans whereby the expense of health-related care may be partially or wholly provided to its subscribers by the payment of benefits for facilities, professional services, appliances, medicines, or supplies furnished directly or indirectly by the health service corporation to its subscribers.||IV. "Provider" means any physician, hospital, or other institution, organization, or other person who furnishes health care services.||V. "Subscriber" means a person to whom a subscription certificate is issued by the health service corporation and which sets forth the kinds and extent of health services for which the health service corporation is liable to make payment and which constitutes the contract between the subscriber and the health service corporation.|||Source. 1997, 190:1. 2007, 289:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 420-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 420-A - Health Service Corporations|Section 420-A:2 - Applicable Statutes.

    420-A:2 Applicable Statutes. –||Every health service corporation shall be governed by this chapter and the relevant provisions of RSA 161-H, and shall be exempt from this title except for the provisions of RSA 400-A:39, RSA 401-B, RSA 402-C, RSA 404-F, RSA 415-A, RSA 415-F, RSA 415:6, II(4), RSA 415:6-g, RSA 415:6-k, RSA 415:6-m, RSA 415:6-o, RSA 415:6-r, RSA 415:6-t, RSA 415:6-u, RSA 415:6-v, RSA 415:6-w, RSA 415:6-x, RSA 415:6-y, RSA 415:6-z, RSA 415:6-a1, RSA 415:18, V, RSA 415:18, XVI and XVII, RSA 415:18, VII-a, RSA 415:18-a, RSA 415:18-i, RSA 415:18-j, RSA 415:18-o, RSA 415:18-r, RSA 415:18-t, RSA 415:18-u, RSA 415:18-v, RSA 415:18-w, RSA 415:18-y, RSA 415:18-z, RSA 415:18-aa, RSA 415:18-bb, RSA 415:18-cc, RSA 415:18-dd, RSA 415:18-ee, RSA 415:22, RSA 417, RSA 417-E, RSA 420-J, and all applicable provisions of title XXXVII wherein such corporations are specifically included. Every health service corporation and its agents shall be subject to the fees prescribed for health service corporations under RSA 400-A:29, VII.|||Source. 1997, 190:1; 345:9. 1999, 323:7. 2000, 207:6. 2003, 286:4. 2006, 187:3. 2007, 289:35. 2008, 389:3. 2010, 362:3. 2011, 133:3; 189:8, 10. 2012, 278:3. 2014, 299:3, eff. Sept. 30, 2014; 299:6, eff. Oct. 1, 2017. 2015, 263:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2017; 263:9, eff. Oct. 1, 2017 at 12:01 a.m.; 263:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2016, 326:3, eff. Aug. 23, 2016; 326:4, eff. Oct. 1, 2017 at 12:02 a.m.; 326:5, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:01 a.m.; 326:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2017 at 12:01 a.m. 2018, 4:13, eff. Feb. 8, 2018; 4:14, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:02 a.m.; 361:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2019; 361:5, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:02 a.m. 2019, 113:4, eff. Aug. 20, 2019; 113:5, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:03 a.m. 2020, 13:11, eff. Jan. 1, 2021; 13:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:04 a.m.; 30:11, eff. Sept. 21, 2020; 30:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:04 p.m.; 39:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:04 a.m.; 39:22, eff. June 30, 2021; 39:23, eff. Jan. 1, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.|