31 Pa. Code § 84d.3a - 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Mortality Table

(a) At the election of the company, for each calendar year of issue, for any one or more specified plans of insurance and subject to satisfying the conditions stated in this chapter, the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Mortality Table may be substituted in place of the 2001 CSO Smoker or Nonsmoker Mortality Table as the minimum valuation standard for policies issued on or after January 1, 2007. For policies issued on and after January 1, 2004, and prior to January 1, 2007, these tables may be substituted as the minimum valuation standard with the consent of the Commissioner subject to the conditions of subsections (b)-(g). In determining consent, the Commissioner may rely on the consent of the chief insurance regulatory official of the company's state of domicile. Prior to that election, the company shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that at least 20% of the business to be valued on this table is in one or more of the preferred classes.

(b) For each policy form with separate rates for preferred and standard nonsmokers, a company may use the Super Preferred Nonsmoker, Preferred Nonsmoker, and Residual Standard Nonsmoker Tables to substitute for the 2001 CSO Nonsmoker Mortality Tables as the minimum valuation standard. At the time of election and annually thereafter, except for business valued using the Residual Standard Nonsmoker Table, the company shall provide the Commissioner a certification from the appointed actuary of the following:

(1) For each class, the present value of death benefits over the next 10 years after the valuation date using anticipated mortality experience without recognition of mortality improvement beyond the valuation date is less than the present value of death benefits using the valuation basic table corresponding to the valuation table used for that class.

(2) For each class, the present value of death benefits over the future life of the contracts using anticipated mortality experience without recognition of mortality improvement beyond the valuation date is less than the present value of death benefits using the valuation basic table corresponding to the valuation table used for that class.

(c) For each policy form with separate rates for preferred and standard smokers, a company may use the Preferred Smoker and Residual Standard Smoker Tables to substitute for the 2001 CSO Smoker Mortality Tables as the minimum valuation standard. At the time of election and annually thereafter for business valued using the Preferred Smoker Table, the company shall provide the Commissioner a certification from the appointed actuary of the following:

(1) The present value of death benefits over the next 10 years after the valuation date using anticipated mortality experience without recognition of mortality improvement beyond the valuation date is less than the present value of death benefits using the valuation basic table corresponding to the Preferred Smoker Table.

(2) The present value of death benefits over the future life of the contracts using anticipated mortality experience without recognition of mortality improvement beyond the valuation date is less than the present value of death benefits using the valuation basic table corresponding to the Preferred Smoker Table.

(d) When the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Mortality Table is the minimum reserve standard for any policy form for a company, the actuarial opinion in the annual statement filed with the Commissioner shall be based on an asset adequacy analysis as specified in Chapter 84b (relating to actuarial opinion and memorandum). The Commissioner may exempt a company from this requirement if it only does business in this Commonwealth.

(e) Unless exempted by the Commissioner, every authorized company using the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Mortality Table shall annually file with the Commissioner, with the NAIC, or with a statistical agent designated by the NAIC and acceptable to the Commissioner, statistical reports showing mortality and such other information as the Commissioner may deem necessary or expedient for the administration of the previsions of this chapter. The form of the reports shall be established by the Commissioner or the Commissioner may require the use of a form established by the NAIC or by a statistical agent designated by the NAIC and acceptable to the Commissioner.

(f) The use of the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Table for the valuation of policies issued prior to January 1, 2007, is not permitted in any statutory financial statement in which a company reports, with respect to any policy or portion of a policy coinsured, either of the following cases:

(1) When the mode of payment of the reinsurance premium is less frequent than the mode of payment of the policy premium, a reserve credit that exceeds, by more than the amount specified in this paragraph as Y, the gross reserve calculated before reinsurance. Y is the amount of the gross reinsurance premium that provides coverage for the period from the next policy premium due date to the earlier of the end of the policy year and the next reinsurance premium due date, and would be refunded to the ceding entity upon the termination of the policy.

(2) When the mode of payment of the reinsurance premium is more frequent than the mode of payment of the policy premium, a reserve credit that is less than the gross reserve, calculated before reinsurance, by an amount that is less than the amount specified in this paragraph as Z. Z is the amount of the gross reinsurance premium that the ceding entity would need to pay the assuming company to provide reinsurance coverage from the period of the next reinsurance premium due date to the next policy premium due date minus any liability established for the proportionate amount not remitted to the reinsurer.

(g) For purposes of the conditions set forth in subsection (f), both the reserve credit and the gross reserve before reinsurance for the mean reserve method are defined as the mean reserve minus the deferred premium asset, and for the mid-terminal reserve method must include the unearned premium reserve. A company may estimate and adjust its accounting on an aggregate basis to meet the conditions to use the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Table.

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31 Pa. Code § 84d.3a

The provisions of this § 84d.3a adopted December 1, 2006, effective 12/2/2006, 36 Pa.B. 7244; amended January 28, 2011, effective 3/30/2011, 41 Pa.B. 601.