Section 1. Purpose.
The purpose of this regulation is to permit the use of mortality
tables that reflect differences in mortality between smokers and nonsmokers in
determining minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and
amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits for plans of insurance with separate
premium rates for smokers and nonsmokers.
Section 2. Definitions.
A. As used in this regulation, "1980 CSO
Table, with or without Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors" means that mortality
table, consisting of separate rates of mortality for male and female lives,
developed by the Society of Actuaries Committee to Recommend New Mortality
Tables for Valuation of Standard Individual Ordinary Life Insurance,
incorporated in the 1980 NAIC Amendments to the Model Standard Valuation Law
and Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance, and referred to in those
models as the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, with or
without Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors. The same select factors will be used
for both smokers and nonsmokers tables.
B. As used in this regulation, "1980 CET
Table" means that mortality table consisting of separate rates of mortality for
male and female lives, developed by the Society of Actuaries Committee to
Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation of Standard Individual Ordinary
Life Insurance, incorporated in the 1980 NAIC Amendments to the Model Standard
Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance, and referred to in those models as the
Commissioners 1980 Extended Term Insurance Table.
C. As used in this regulation, "1958 CSO
Table" means that mortality table developed by the Society of Actuaries Special
Committee on New Mortality Tables, incorporated in the NAIC Model Standard
Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance, and referred to in that model as the
Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table.
D. As used in this regulation, "1958 CET
Table" means that mortality table developed by the Society of Actuaries Special
Committee on New Mortality Tables, incorporated in the NAIC Model Standard
Nonforfeiture Law for Life Insurance, and referred to in the model as the
Commissioners 1958 Extended Term Insurance Table.
E. As used in this regulation, the phrase
"smoker and nonsmoker mortality tables" refers to the mortality tables with
separate rates of mortality for smokers and nonsmokers derived from the tables
defined in A through D of this section which were developed by the Society of
Actuaries Task Force on Smoker/Nonsmoker Mortality and the California Insurance
Department staff and recommended by the NAIC Technical Staff Actuarial
Group.
F. As used in this
regulation, the phrase "composite mortality tables" refers to the mortality
tables defined in A through D of this section as they were originally published
with rates of mortality that do not distinguish between smokers and
nonsmokers.
Section 3.
Alternate Tables.
A. For any policy of
insurance delivered or issued for delivery in this State after the operative
date of Section 37-63-600 for that policy form and before January 1, 1989, at
the option of the company and subject to the conditions stated in Section
4 of this regulation,
(i) the 1958 CSO Smoker and Nonsmoker
Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CSO Table, with or without
Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors, and
(ii) the 1958 CET Smoker and Nonsmoker
Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CET Table
for use in determining minimum reserve liabilities and minimum
cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits.
Provided that for any category of insurance issued on female
lives with minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and
amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits determined using the 1958 CSO or 1958
CET Smoker and Nonsmoker Mortality Tables, such minimum values may be
calculated according to an age not more than six years younger than the actual
age of the insured.
Provided further that the substitution of the 1958 CSO or 1958
CET Smoker and Nonsmoker Mortality Tables is available only if made for each
policy of insurance on a policy form delivered or issued for delivery on or
after the operative date for that policy form and before a date not later than
January 1, 1989.
B. For any policy of insurance delivered or
issued for delivery in this State after the operative date of Section
38-63-600
for that policy form, at the option of the company and subject to the
conditions stated in Section
4 of this regulation,
(i) the 1980 CSO Smoker and Nonsmoker
Mortality Tables, with or without Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors, may be
substituted for the 1980 CSO Table, with or without Ten-Year Select Mortality
Factors, and
(ii) the 1980 CET
Smoker and Nonsmoker Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CET Table
for use in determining minimum reserve liabilities and minimum
cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits.
Section 4.
Conditions.
For each plan of insurance with separate rates for smokers and
nonsmokers as insurer may:
(i) use
composite mortality tables to determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum
cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits,
(ii) use smoker and nonsmoker mortality
tables to determine the valuation net premiums and additional minimum reserves,
if any, required by Section
38-9-180
and use composite mortality tables to determine the basic minimum reserves,
minimum cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits,
or
(iii) use smoker and nonsmoker
mortality to determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender
values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits.
Section 5. Separability.
If any provision of this regulation or the application thereof to
any person or circumstance is for any reason held to be invalid, the remainder
of the regulation and the application of such provision to other persons or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Section 6. Effective Date.
This regulation is effective on the date of its approval and is
applicable to all business issued on January
1 and afterward of the year of
approval.
