Title 58, INSURANCE

A reinstated policy of life insurance or annuity contract may be contested on account of fraud or misrepresentation of facts material to the reinstatement only for the same period following reinstatement and with the same conditions and exceptions as the policy provides with resp…

When any life insurance policy or annuity contract is reinstated, such reinstated policy or contract may exclude or restrict liability to the same extent that such liability could have been or was excluded or restricted when the policy or contract was originally issued and such e…

There shall be a title on the policy, briefly describing the same. Source: SL 1966, ch 111 , ch 23, § 16.

Any life insurer shall have the power to hold under agreement the proceeds of any policy issued by it, upon such terms and restrictions as to revocation by the policyholder and control by beneficiaries, and with such exemptions from the claims of creditors of beneficiaries other …

No life insurer shall hereafter deliver in this state as a part of or in combination with any insurance, endowment, or annuity contract, any agreement or plan, additional to the rights, dividends, and benefits arising out of any such insurance, endowment, or annuity contract: (1)…

There shall be a provision that the policy, or the policy and the application therefor if a copy of such application is endorsed upon or attached to the policy when issued, shall constitute the entire contract between the parties, and that all statements contained in such an appl…

Every individual life insurance policy issued for delivery in South Dakota on or after July 1, 1982, by an insurance company or fraternal benefit society, shall have a notice printed on or attached to the face page of the policy, stating in substance that the person issued the po…

An insurance company or fraternal benefit society shall issue policies in this state for which an examination period is required in accordance with one of the following methods: (1) If the policy is delivered by an insurance producer, a receipt shall be signed by the policyowner …

If a policyholder has made a request to cash surrender, to obtain maximum policy loans, or to make an Internal Revenue Code Section 1035 exchange under a life insurance or an annuity policy, the insurer shall forward to the policyholder or the policyholder's insurance producer, w…

Sections 58-15-83 to 58-15-93 , inclusive, do not apply to any reinsurance, group annuity purchased under a retirement plan or plan of deferred compensation established or maintained by an employer (including a partnership or sole proprietorship) or by an employee organization, o…

In the case of contracts issued on or after July 1, 2004, no contract of annuity, except as stated in § 58-15-83 , may be delivered or issued for delivery in this state unless it contains in substance the following provisions, or corresponding provisions which in the opinion of t…

The minimum values as specified in §§ 58-15-86 to 58-15-89 , inclusive, and 58-15-91 of any paid - up annuity, cash surrender, or death benefits available under an annuity contract shall be based upon minimum nonforfeiture amounts as defined in this section: (1) The minimum nonfo…

Any paid - up annuity benefit available under a contract 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. Present value shall be computed using the mortality table, if any, and th…

For contracts that provide cash surrender benefits, the cash surrender benefits available prior to maturity may not be less than the present value as of the date of surrender of that portion of the maturity value of the paid - up annuity benefit that would be provided under the c…

For contracts that do not provide cash surrender benefits, the present value of any paid - up annuity benefit available as a nonforfeiture option at any time prior to maturity may not be less than the present value of that portion of the maturity value of the paid - up annuity be…

For the purpose of determining the benefits calculated under §§ 58-15-87 and 58-15-88 , in the case of annuity contracts under which an election may be made to have annuity payments commence at optional maturity dates, the maturity date shall be deemed to be the latest date for w…

There shall be a provision that if the age of the insured, or of any other person whose age is considered in determining the premium or benefit has been misstated, any amount payable or benefit accruing under the policy shall be such as the premium would have purchased at the cor…

A contract that does not provide cash surrender benefits or does not provide death benefits at least equal to the minimum nonforfeiture amount prior to the commencement of any annuity payments shall include a statement in a prominent place in the contract that such benefits are n…

Any paid - up annuity, cash surrender, or death benefits available at any time, other than on the contract anniversary under any contract with fixed scheduled considerations, shall be calculated with allowance for the lapse of time and the payment of any scheduled considerations …

For a contract which provides, within the same contract by rider or supplemental contract provision, both annuity benefits and life insurance benefits that are in excess of the greater of cash surrender benefits or a return of the gross considerations with interest, the minimum n…

After July 1, 2004, a company may elect to apply its provisions to annuity contracts on a contract form - by - contract form basis before the second anniversary of the effective date of §§ 58-15-83 to 58-15-93 , inclusive. In all other instances, §§ 58-15-83 to 58-15-93 , inclusi…

The requirements of §§ 58-15-94 to 58-15-108 , inclusive, apply to any in-force and future policy, annuity contract, and retained asset account as of July 1, 2018. Sections 58-15-94 to 58-15-108 , inclusive, do not apply to a policy, annuity contract, or retained asset account of…

Terms used in §§ 58-15-94 to 58-15-108 , inclusive, mean: (1) "Beneficiary," any party entitled to receive the proceeds from a policy, an annuity contract, or a retained asset account; (2) "Beneficiary search," reasonable and good faith efforts, that an insurer documents, to iden…

As of January 1, 2019, an insurer shall have compared all in-force policies, annuity contracts, and retained asset accounts at the time of enactment against the full DMF to identify potential matches of its insureds. Source: SL 2018, ch 280 , § 3.

An insurer shall compare all in-force policies, annuity contracts, and retained asset accounts and policies that lapse in its records against any updates to the DMF on at least a semi-annual basis to identify potential matches of its insureds. Source: SL 2018, ch 280 , § 4.

Each insurer shall implement reasonable procedures to do the searches required in §§ 58-15-96 and 58-15-97 that account for: (1) Common nicknames, initials used in lieu of a first or middle name, use of a middle name, compound first and middle names, and interchanged first and mi…

The director may exempt an insurer from the DMF comparisons required under §§ 58-15-94 to 58-15-108 , inclusive, if the insurer demonstrates to the director's satisfaction that compliance would result in financial hardship to the insurer. In making the determination the director …