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CT Gen Stat § 38a-615. (Formerly Sec. 38-237a) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-615. (Formerly Sec. 38-237a) - Additional filings. Capital and surplus requirements for certain associations.

 (a) In addition to the annual report required under section 38a-614, the commissioner, when the commissioner deems it necessary, may require any fraternal benefit society licensed under sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800, or any association set forth in subsection (b) of section 38a-614, to file financial statements on a quarterly basis.(b) In addition to such annual report and the quarterly report required under subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner, whenever the commissioner determines that more frequent reports are required because of certain factors or trends affecting companies writing a particular class or classes of business or because of changes in the company's management or financial or operating condition, may require any fraternal benefit society licensed under sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800, or any association set forth in subsection (b) of section 38a-614, to file financial statements on other than an annual or quarterly basis.(c) If, in the opinion of the commissioner, an association set forth in subsection (b) of section 38a-614 has not maintained qualified assets, as defined in section 38a-71, sufficient to meet its liabilities and minimum capital and minimum surplus requirements as determined by the commissioner, the commissioner may order such association to increase its capital and surplus. If the association is unable to satisfy such order, the commissioner may order such association to cease and desist from assuming any additional liabilities in this state until such time as the association is able to satisfy the capital and surplus requirements ordered by the commissioner.(P.A. 76-167, S. 2; P.A. 05-29, S. 8; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 137.)History: Sec. 38-237a transferred to Sec. 38a-615 in 1991; P.A. 05-29 amended Subsec. (b) to make technical changes; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to add provisions re tax-exempt associations set forth in Sec. 38a-614(b) and make a technical change, and added Subsec. (c) authorizing commissioner to order such associations to increase capital and surplus requirements or to cease and desist from assuming additional liabilities, effective July 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-616. (Formerly Sec. 38-238) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-616. (Formerly Sec. 38-238) - Examination of domestic society by commissioner.

 (a) The commissioner, or any person he may appoint, shall have the power of visitation and examination into the affairs of any domestic society and he shall make such examination at least once in every five years. He may employ assistants for the purpose of such examination, and he, or any person he may appoint, shall have free access to all books, papers and documents that relate to the business of the society. The minutes of the proceedings of the supreme legislative or governing body and of the board of directors or corresponding body of a society shall be in the English language. In making any such examination the commissioner may summon and qualify as witnesses under oath and examine its officers, agents and employees or other persons in relation to the affairs, transactions and condition of the society.(b) A summary of the report of the commissioner and such recommendations or statements of the commissioner as may accompany such report shall be read at the first meeting of the board of directors or corresponding body of the society following the receipt thereof and, if so directed by the commissioner, shall also be read at the first meeting of the supreme legislative or governing body of the society following the receipt thereof. A copy of the report, recommendations and statements of the commissioner shall be furnished by the society to each member of such board of directors or other governing body.(c) The state shall be reimbursed for the costs of each examination and of each valuation of any domestic society to the extent provided in sections 38a-49 and 38a-50.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 35; 1959, P.A. 381, S. 1; P.A. 81-101, S. 8; P.A. 90-243, S. 143.)History: 1959 act deleted provision which had required society to pay examination costs, requiring instead reimbursement “to the extent provided in sections 38-51 and 38-52”; P.A. 81-101 required that insurance commissioner examine affairs of each domestic fraternal benefit society every five years, rather than every three years; P.A. 90-243 divided section into Subsecs.; Sec. 38-238 transferred to Sec. 38a-616 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-617. (Formerly Sec. 38-239) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-617. (Formerly Sec. 38-239) - Examination of foreign or alien society.

 The commissioner, or any person whom he may appoint, may examine any foreign or alien society transacting or applying for admission to transact business in this state. He may employ assistants and he, or any person he may appoint, shall have free access to all books, papers and documents that relate to the business of the society. He may in his discretion accept, in lieu of such examination, the examination of the insurance department of the state, territory, district, province or country where such society is organized. The compensation and actual expenses of the examiners making any examination or general or special valuation shall be paid by the society examined or by the society whose certificate obligations have been valued, upon statements furnished by the commissioner.(1949 Rev., S. 6265; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 36; P.A. 90-243, S. 144.)History: P.A. 90-243 substituted “foreign” for “nonresident” and “alien” for “foreign” societies; Sec. 38-239 transferred to Sec. 38a-617 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-618. (Formerly Sec. 38-240) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-618. (Formerly Sec. 38-240) - Statement affecting status of society prohibited pending answer of society.

 Pending, during or after an examination or investigation of a society, domestic, foreign or alien, the commissioner shall not make public any financial statement, report or finding, nor shall he permit to become public any financial statement, report or finding affecting the status, standing or rights of any society, until a copy thereof has been served upon the society at its principal office and the society has been afforded a reasonable opportunity to answer any such financial statement, report or finding and to make such showing in connection therewith as it may desire.(1949 Rev., S. 6266; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 37; P.A. 90-243, S. 145.)History: P.A. 90-243 substituted “foreign” for “nonresident” and “alien” for “foreign” societies; Sec. 38-240 transferred to Sec. 38a-618 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-619. (Formerly Sec. 38-241) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-619. (Formerly Sec. 38-241) - Decisions of commissioner subject to Superior Court review.

 All decisions and findings of the commissioner made under the provisions of sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800 shall be subject to review by proper proceedings in the Superior Court.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 31.)History: Sec. 38-241 transferred to Sec. 38a-619 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-621. (Formerly Sec. 38-243) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-621. (Formerly Sec. 38-243) - Petition for injunction to be made only by Attorney General.

 No application or petition for injunction against any domestic, foreign or alien society, or branch thereof, shall be recognized in any court of this state unless made by the Attorney General upon request of the commissioner.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 30; P.A. 90-243, S. 146.)History: P.A. 90-243 substituted “foreign” for “nonresident” and “alien” for “foreign” societies; Sec. 38-243 transferred to Sec. 38a-621 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-622. (Formerly Sec. 38-244) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-622. (Formerly Sec. 38-244) - Misrepresentations, false statements prohibited. Penalties.

 No person shall cause or permit to be made, issued or circulated in any form: (a) Any misrepresentation or false or misleading statement concerning the terms, benefits or advantages of any fraternal insurance contract issued or to be issued in this state, or the financial condition of any society; (b) any false or misleading estimate or statement concerning the dividends or shares of surplus paid or to be paid by any society on any insurance contract; or (c) any incomplete comparison of an insurance contract of one society with an insurance contract of another society or insurer for the purpose of inducing the lapse, forfeiture or surrender of any insurance contract. A comparison of insurance contracts is incomplete if it does not compare in detail: (1) The gross rates, and the gross rates less any dividend or other reduction allowed at the date of the comparison; (2) any increase in cash values, and all the benefits provided by each contract for the possible duration thereof as determined by the life expectancy of the insured; or if it omits from consideration; (3) any benefit or value provided in the contract; (4) any differences as to amount or period of rates; or (5) any differences in limitations or conditions or provisions which directly or indirectly affect the benefits. In any determination of the incompleteness or misleading character of any comparison or statement, it shall be presumed that the insured had no knowledge of any of the contents of the contract involved. Any person who violates any provision of this section, or knowingly receives any compensation or commission by or in consequence of such violation, shall be fined not less than two thousand dollars or more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned not less than thirty days or more than one year, or be both fined and imprisoned, and shall, in addition, be liable for civil penalty in the amount of three times the sum received by such violator as compensation or commission, which penalty may be sued for and recovered by any person or society aggrieved for his or its own use and benefit in accordance with the provisions of civil practice.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 38; P.A. 08-178, S. 20.)History: Sec. 38-244 transferred to Sec. 38a-622 in 1991; P.A. 08-178 made technical changes and increased minimum fine from $100 to $2,000 and maximum fine from $500 to $10,000.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-623. (Formerly Sec. 38-245) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-623. (Formerly Sec. 38-245) - Discrimination, rebates prohibited.

 No society doing business in this state shall make or permit any unfair discrimination between insured members of the same class and equal expectation of life in the premiums charged for certificates of insurance, in the dividends or other benefits payable thereon or in any other of the terms and conditions of the contracts it makes. No society, by itself, or any other party, and no agent or solicitor, personally, or by any other party, shall offer, promise, allow, give, set off or pay, directly or indirectly, any valuable consideration or inducement to or for insurance, on any risk authorized to be taken by such society, which is not specified in the certificate. No member shall receive or accept, directly or indirectly, any rebate of premium, or part thereof, or agent's or solicitor's commission thereon, payable on any certificate or receive or accept any favor or advantage or share in the dividends or other benefits to accrue on, or any valuable consideration or inducement not specified in, the contract of insurance.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 39.)History: Sec. 38-245 transferred to Sec. 38a-623 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-624. (Formerly Sec. 38-246) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-624. (Formerly Sec. 38-246) - Exemption from insurance laws.

 Except as herein provided, societies shall be governed by sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800 and shall be exempt from all other provisions of the insurance laws of this state, not only in governmental relations with the state, but for every other purpose. No law enacted after January 1, 1958, shall apply to them, unless they are expressly designated therein.(1949 Rev., S. 6225; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 41.)History: Sec. 38-246 transferred to Sec. 38a-624 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-624a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-624a - Effect of marriage laws on determination of members or beneficiaries or provision of insurance.

 The marriage laws of this state shall not be construed to affect the ability of a fraternal benefit society to determine the admission of members as provided in section 38a-598 or to determine the scope of beneficiaries in accordance with section 38a-636, and shall not require a fraternal benefit society that has been established and is operating for charitable and educational purposes and which is operated, supervised or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization to provide insurance benefits to any person if to do so would violate the fraternal benefit society's free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States and section 3 of article first of the Constitution of the state.(P.A. 09-13, S. 18.)History: P.A. 09-13 effective April 23, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-626. (Formerly Sec. 38-248) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-626. (Formerly Sec. 38-248) - Penalties.

 Any person who wilfully makes a false or fraudulent statement in or relating to an application for membership or for the purpose of obtaining money from or a benefit in any society shall be fined not less than two thousand dollars or more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days or more than one year or both. Any person who wilfully makes a false or fraudulent statement in any verified report or declaration under oath required or authorized by sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800, or of any material fact or thing contained in a sworn statement concerning the death or disability of a member for the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named in the certificate, shall be guilty of false statement and shall be subject to the penalties therefor. Any person who solicits membership for, or in any manner assists in procuring membership in, any society not licensed to do business in this state shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars or more than four thousand dollars. Any person guilty of a wilful violation of, or neglect or refusal to comply with, the provisions of said sections for which a penalty is not otherwise prescribed shall be fined not more than four thousand dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 6271; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 43; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 117; P.A. 08-178, S. 21.)History: 1971 act replaced perjury penalty prescribed by Sec. 53-143 with false statement penalty; Sec. 38-248 transferred to Sec. 38a-626 in 1991; P.A. 08-178 made technical changes, increased minimum fine for making a false or fraudulent statement from $100 to $2,000 and maximum fine from $500 to $10,000, increased minimum fine for soliciting membership for any society not licensed to do business in this state from $50 to $1,000 and maximum fine from $200 to $4,000, and increased maximum fine for other section violations for which a penalty is not otherwise prescribed from $200 to $4,000.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-631. (Formerly Sec. 38-224) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 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.(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.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.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.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-632. (Formerly Sec. 38-224a) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-632. (Formerly Sec. 38-224a) - Additional benefits from special account.

 A society may pay benefits, other than insurance benefits, to its members from any special account or fund maintained for such purpose; provided, if such benefits are of such a nature that they could constitute benefits within the classes of insurance set forth in section 38a-631, a society making such payments may not: (a) Make any separate charge therefor; (b) issue any certificate, policy or other document promising such payments; (c) provide in its constitution, laws or any other document that such payments may be received by the member as a matter of right; or (d) advertise such payments as insurance or as payments to which the member has any right. The society shall maintain a separate accounting of all disbursements made under this section and report them in its annual statement.(1959, P.A. 624, S. 1.)History: Sec. 38-224a transferred to Sec. 38a-632 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-633. (Formerly Sec. 38-225) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-633. (Formerly Sec. 38-225) - Insurance and branches for children.

 A society may provide for benefits on the lives of children under the minimum age for adult membership but not greater than eighteen years of age at time of application therefor, upon the application of some adult person, as its laws or rules may provide, which benefits shall be in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of section 38a-631. A society may, at its option, organize and operate branches for such children. Membership and initiation in local lodges shall not be required of such children, nor shall they have a voice in the management of the society. A society may provide for the designation and changing of designation of beneficiaries in the certificates providing for such benefits and may provide in all other respects for the regulation, government and control of such certificates and all rights, obligations and liabilities incident thereto and connected therewith.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 15; 1959, P.A. 61, S. 6; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 65.)History: 1959 act specified “subsection (1)” of Sec. 38-224; 1972 act changed age of majority from 21 to 18; Sec. 38-225 transferred to Sec. 38a-633 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-634. (Formerly Sec. 38-226) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-634. (Formerly Sec. 38-226) - Nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values and certificate loans.

 A society may grant paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender values, certificate loans and such other options as its laws may permit. As to certificates issued on and after January 1, 1958, a society shall grant at least one paid-up nonforfeiture benefit, except in the case of pure endowment, annuity or reversionary annuity contracts, reducing term insurance contracts or contracts of term insurance of uniform amount of fifteen years or less expiring before age sixty-six.(1957, P.A. 448, S. 16.)History: Sec. 38-226 transferred to Sec. 38a-634 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-635. (Formerly Sec. 38-227) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-635. (Formerly Sec. 38-227) - Officers and members not liable for benefits.

 The officers and members of the supreme, grand or any subordinate body of a society shall not be personally liable for payment of any benefits provided by a society.(1949 Rev., S. 6240; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 13.)History: Sec. 38-227 transferred to Sec. 38a-635 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 38a-637. (Formerly Sec. 38-229) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 700d - Fraternal Benefit Societies|Section 38a-637. (Formerly Sec. 38-229) - Money or other benefits not liable to attachment.

 No money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any society shall be liable to attachment, garnishment or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liability of a member or beneficiary, or any other person who may have a right thereunder, either before or after payment by the society.(1949 Rev., S. 6245; 1953, S. 2847d; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 18; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 587, 608, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 86-290, S. 6, 10.)History: P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner with commissioner of social services; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced commissioner of social services with commissioner of income maintenance, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 86-290 deleted reference to assignments to the commissioner of income maintenance under Sec. 17-114; Sec. 38-229 transferred to Sec. 38a-637 in 1991.Annotation to former section 38-229:What societies included under former law. 76 C. 132.