Title 56, Insurance

An industrial life insurance policy shall have the name of the beneficiary designated thereon, or in the application or other form if attached to the policy, with a reservation of the right to designate or change the beneficiary after the issuance of the policy unless such benefi…

(1) ORS 743.204 to 743.222 may be cited as the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance. (2) The operative date of the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance as to any policy is the earlier of: (a) January 1, 1948; or (b) The date specified in a written notice, filed …

(1) A life insurance policy shall contain in substance the following provisions, or corresponding provisions which in the opinion of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services are at least as favorable to the defaulting or surrendering policyholder as are th…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, any cash surrender value available under a life insurance policy in the event of default in a premium payment due on any policy anniversary, whether or not required by ORS 743.207, shall be an amount not…

Any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit available under a life insurance policy in the event of default in a premium payment due on any policy anniversary shall be such that its present value as of such anniversary shall be at least equal to the cash surrender value then provided for b…

(1) This section applies to all life insurance policies issued on or after the operative date defined in this subsection for the issuing insurer. After January 1, 1982, any insurer may file with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services a written notice of …

This section applies only to life insurance policies issued before the operative date defined in ORS 743.215. For such policies: (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the adjusted premiums referred to in ORS 743.210 shall be calculated on an annual basis and s…

In the case of policies of life insurance which provide for determination of future premium amounts by the insurer on the basis of current estimates of future experience, or policies of life insurance which are of such a nature that minimum values cannot in the judgment of the Di…

(1) Any cash surrender value and any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit available under a life insurance policy in the event of default in a premium payment due at any time other than on the policy anniversary date shall be calculated with allowance for the lapse of time and the payme…

(1) This section shall apply to all life insurance policies issued on or after January 1, 1986. (2) Any cash surrender value available in the event of default in a premium payment due on any policy anniversary under a life insurance policy to which this section applies shall be i…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 743.210, in ascertaining minimum cash surrender values and paid-up nonforfeiture benefits required by the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance, benefits and their respective premiums provided for in a life insurance policy shall be disregarded whe…

A life insurance policy may not: (1) Limit the time within which any action at law or suit in equity may be commenced to less than three years after the cause of action or suit accrues; (2) Purport to be issued or to take effect more than six months before the original applicatio…

(1) Whenever a corporation organized under the laws of this state or qualified to do business in this state has caused to be insured the life of any director, officer, agent or employee, or whenever such corporation is named as a beneficiary in or assignee of any life insurance p…

A variable life insurance policy shall contain in substance the following provisions: (1) A provision that there will be a period of grace of 30 days within which payment of any premium after the first may be made, during which period of grace the policy will continue in full for…

“Profit-sharing policy” means: (1) A life insurance policy which by its terms expressly provides that the policyholder will participate in the distribution of earnings or surplus other than earnings or surplus attributable, by reasonable and nondiscriminatory standards, to the pa…

“Charter policy” or “founders policy” means: (1) A life insurance policy which by its terms expressly provides that the policyholder will receive some preferential or discriminatory advantage or benefit not available to persons who purchase insurance from the insurer at future da…

“Coupon policy” means a life insurance policy which provides a series of pure endowments maturing periodically in amounts not exceeding the gross annual policy premiums. The term “pure endowment” or “endowment” is used in its accepted actuarial sense, meaning a benefit becoming p…

No profit-sharing, charter or founders policy shall be issued or delivered in this state. [Formerly 739.720]

Coupon policies issued or delivered in this state shall be subject to the following provisions: (1) No detachable coupons or certificates or passbooks may be used. No other device may be used which tends to emphasize the periodic endowment benefits or which tends to create the im…

A variable life insurance policy shall contain a provision stating the essential features of the procedures to be followed by the insurer in determining benefits thereunder. Such a policy, and any certificate evidencing such a policy, shall contain on its first page a clear and p…

An insurer issuing individual variable life insurance policies shall mail to each policyholder at least once in each policy year after the first, at the last address of the policyholder known to the insurer: (1) A statement reporting the investments held in the applicable separat…

ORS 743.255 to 743.273 apply only to annuity and pure endowment policies, other than reversionary annuity policies except as provided in ORS 743.273, and other than group annuity policies, and shall not apply to reversionary or deferred annuity benefits included in life insurance…

An annuity or pure endowment policy shall contain a provision that there shall be a period of grace of one month, but not less than 30 days, within which any stipulated payment to the insurer falling due after the first such payment may be made, subject at the option of the insur…

If any statement other than those relating to age, sex and identity are required as a condition to issuing an annuity or pure endowment policy, the policy shall contain a provision that the policy shall be incontestable after it has been in force during the lifetime of the person…

An annuity or pure endowment policy shall contain a provision that the policy, including a copy of the application if indorsed upon or attached to the policy when issued, shall constitute the entire contract between the parties. [1967 c.359 §407]

(1) As used in this section: (a)(A) “Annuity” means: (i) An agreement to make periodic payments, whether fixed or variable, in an amount: (I) That is individually solicited, whether the agreement is classified as an individual annuity or a group annuity; and (II) In which the obl…

An annuity or pure endowment policy shall contain a provision that if the age or sex of the person or persons upon whose life or lives the policy is made, or of any of them, has been misstated, the amount payable or benefits accruing under the policy shall be such as the stipulat…

If an annuity or pure endowment policy is participating, it shall contain a provision that the insurer shall annually ascertain and apportion any divisible surplus accruing on the policy. [1967 c.359 §409]

(1) An insurer may advance a policy loan equal to or less than the loan value of an annuity policy or a pure endowment policy if: (a) The policy premium is not in default beyond the grace period for payment; (b) The insured has properly assigned or pledged the policy on the sole …

An annuity policy meeting the requirements of this section may provide that periodic payments shall be made under the policy for a period certain. Payments under such a policy shall begin on a date less than 13 months after the date on which the insurer issues the policy. The pol…

An annuity or pure endowment policy shall contain a provision that the policy may be reinstated at any time within one year from a default in making stipulated payments to the insurer, unless the cash surrender value has been paid, but all overdue stipulated payments and any inde…

A variable annuity policy requiring periodic stipulated payments to the insurer shall contain in substance the following provisions: (1) A provision that there will be a period of grace of 30 days within which any stipulated payment to the insurer after the first may be made, dur…

(1) A variable annuity policy shall specify the investment increment factors to be used in computing the dollar amount of variable benefits or other variable payments or values under the policy, and may guarantee that expense or mortality results or both will not adversely affect…

A policy of reversionary annuity shall contain in substance the following provisions: (1) The provisions specified in ORS 743.255 to 743.267, except that under ORS 743.255 the insurer may at its option provide for an equitable reduction of the amount of the annuity payments in se…

(1) ORS 743.275 to 743.295 may be cited as the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities. (2) The Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities does not apply to: (a) Reinsurance. (b) A group annuity policy purchased under a retirement or deferre…

(1) An annuity policy shall contain in substance the following provisions, or corresponding provisions that in the opinion of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services are at least as favorable to the policyholder: (a) That upon the termination of considera…

(1) Any paid-up annuity benefit available under an annuity policy shall be such that its present value on the date annuity payments are to commence is at least equal to the minimum nonforfeiture amount on that date. The present value shall be computed using the mortality table, i…

(1) For the purpose of determining the benefits calculated under ORS 743.284 (2) and (3) in the case of annuity policies under which an election may be made to have annuity payments commence at optional maturity dates, the maturity date shall be considered to be the latest date f…

An annuity policy that does not provide cash surrender benefits or does not provide death benefits at least equal to the minimum nonforfeiture amount prior to the start of annuity payments shall include a statement in a prominent place in the policy that the benefits are not prov…

(1) The minimum values as specified in ORS 743.284 and 743.287 of any paid-up annuity, cash surrender or death benefits available under an annuity policy shall be based on minimum nonforfeiture amounts as described in this section. (2) The minimum nonforfeiture amount at or prior…

(1) For an annuity policy that includes, by rider or supplemental contract provision, both annuity benefits and life insurance benefits that exceed the greater of cash surrender benefits or a return of the gross considerations with interest, the minimum nonforfeiture benefits sha…

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 743.275 to 743.295, the Department of Consumer and Business Services may adopt rules to regulate the penalties, fees or other charges that an insurer imposes for a withdrawal, before maturity or after the owner or annuitant dies, from an …

Policies of group life insurance are subject to the following requirements: (1) The policy shall be issued upon the lives of persons who are associated in a common group formed for purposes other than the obtaining of insurance, except that either of the following kinds of polici…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section a group life insurance policy shall contain in substance the provisions described in ORS 743.309 to 743.342. (2) The provisions described in ORS 743.327 to 743.339 shall not apply to policies of group credit life insurance.…

If a group life insurance policy is on a plan of insurance other than the term plan, it shall contain nonforfeiture provision or provisions which in the opinion of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services are equitable to the insured persons and to the pol…

A group life insurance policy shall contain a provision that the policyholder is entitled to a grace period of 31 days for the payment of any premium due except the first, during which grace period the death benefit coverage shall continue in force, unless the policyholder shall …