Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 23 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND REGULATED INDUSTRIES (§§ 23-1-101 — 23-119-105) › Subtitle 3 - INSURANCE (§§ 23-60-101 — 23-103-417) › Chapter 84 - STANDARD VALUATION LAW FOR LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES (§§ 23-84-101 — 23-84-119) › Section 23-84-103 - Minimum standard for valuation generally

(a)
Except as provided in §§
23-84-104
,
23-84-105
, and
23-84-114
, the minimum standard for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued prior to the operative date of §
23-81-213(a)
shall be provided by the laws in effect immediately prior to January 1, 1960.
(b)
Except as otherwise provided in §§
23-84-104
,
23-84-105
, and
23-84-114
, the minimum standard for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued on or after the operative date of §
23-81-213(a)
shall be the Insurance Commissioner's reserve valuation methods defined in §§
23-84-106
,
23-84-107
,
23-84-110
, and
23-84-114
, three and one-half percent (3.5%) interest, or in the case of policies and contracts, other than annuity and pure endowment contracts, five and one-half percent (5.5%) interest for single premium life insurance policies and four and one-half percent (4.5%) interest for all other policies issued on and after March 18, 1977, and the following tables:
(1)
For all ordinary policies of life insurance issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in the policies:
(A)
The Commissioner's 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table for policies issued prior to the operative date of §
23-81-213(b)
;
(B)
(i)
For policies issued on or after the operative date of §
23-81-213(b)
and prior to the operative date of §
23-81-213(d)
, the Commissioner's 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table.
(ii)
For any category of policies issued on female risks under this subdivision (b)(1)(B), all modified net premiums and present values referred to in this chapter may be calculated according to an age not more than six (6) years younger than the actual age of the insured; or
(C)
For policies issued on or after the operative date of §
23-81-213(d)
:
(i)
The Commissioner's 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table;
(ii)
At the election of the insurer, for any one (1) or more specified plans of life insurance, the Commissioner's 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table with Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors; or
(iii)
Any ordinary mortality table adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that is approved by rules promulgated by the commissioner for the use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for the policies;
(2)
For industrial life insurance policies issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such policies, the Commissioner's 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table for policies issued prior to the operative date of §
23-81-213(c)
and, for policies issued on or after the operative date of §
23-81-213(c)
, the Commissioner's 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table or any industrial mortality table adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that is approved by rules promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for the policies;
(3)
For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in the policies, the 1937 Standard Annuity Mortality Table, or, at the option of the insurer, the Annuity Mortality Table for 1949, Ultimate, or any modification of either of these tables approved by the commissioner;
(4)
For group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in the policies, the Group Annuity Mortality Table for 1951, any modification of the table approved by the commissioner, or, at the option of the insurer, any of the tables or modifications of tables specified for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts;
(5)
For total and permanent disability benefits in or supplementary to ordinary policies or contracts, for policies or contracts issued on or after January 1, 1966, the tables of Period 2 disablement rates and the 1930 to 1950 termination rates of the 1952 Disability Study of the Society of Actuaries, with due regard to the type of benefit, or any tables of disablement rates and termination rates adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that are approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for the policies and, for policies or contracts issued on or after January 1, 1961, and prior to January 1, 1966, either such tables, or, at the option of the insurer, the Class (3) Disability Table (1926) and, for policies issued prior to January 1, 1961, the Class (3) Disability Table (1926). Any table, for active lives, shall be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies;
(6)
For accidental death benefits in or supplementary to policies, for policies issued on or after January 1, 1966, the 1959 Accidental Death Benefits Table or any accidental death benefits table adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, that is approved by rule promulgated by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for the policies and, for policies issued on or after January 1, 1961, and prior to January 1, 1966, either such table, or, at the option of the insurer, the Inter-Company Double Indemnity Mortality Table and, for policies issued prior to January 1, 1961, the Inter-Company Double Indemnity Mortality Table. Either table shall be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies; and
(7)
For group life insurance, life insurance issued on the substandard basis, and other special benefits, such tables as may be approved by the commissioner.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2734, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2733, eff. 7/24/2019.
Amended by Act 2015, No. 1223,§ 39, eff. 7/22/2015.
Amended by Act 2015, No. 1223,§ 38, eff. 7/22/2015.
Amended by Act 2015, No. 1223,§ 37, eff. 7/22/2015.
Acts 1959, No. 148, § 92; 1961, No. 466, § 1; 1965, No. 439, § 1; 1977, No. 551, § 2; 1981, No. 535, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 66-2511; Acts 2005, No. 506, § 44.