Tex. Insurance Code § 887.402
This is the official text of Tex. Insurance Code § 887.402, part of Texas’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the policies they sell.
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§ 887.402. RESERVES ON FAMILY GROUP LIFE INSURANCE CERTIFICATES.
Official statutory text
(a) An association shall reserve a family group life insurance certificate on which the association charges a group premium that is not reduced on the death of an insured as provided by this section.
(b) An association shall maintain reserves on each of its family group life insurance certificates using one of the following methods:
(1) the reserves must be equal to the reserves that would be required under Section 887.401 on individual life insurance certificates on the lives of the two oldest living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for those two members determined assuming that the elder of the two will die first;
(2) the reserves must be equal to the reserves required under Section 887.401 on individual life insurance certificates on the lives of the living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for each member of the family group determined assuming that each member will die first; or
(3) any other table or method of computing reserves approved in advance by the commissioner.
(c) An association may select the method to be used to compute the reserves under Subsection (b).
(b) An association shall maintain reserves on each of its family group life insurance certificates using one of the following methods:
(1) the reserves must be equal to the reserves that would be required under Section 887.401 on individual life insurance certificates on the lives of the two oldest living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for those two members determined assuming that the elder of the two will die first;
(2) the reserves must be equal to the reserves required under Section 887.401 on individual life insurance certificates on the lives of the living members of the family group, with the amount of insurance for each member of the family group determined assuming that each member will die first; or
(3) any other table or method of computing reserves approved in advance by the commissioner.
(c) An association may select the method to be used to compute the reserves under Subsection (b).
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