This article does 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, or by both, other than a plan providing individual retirement accounts or individual retirement annuities under Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code, premium deposit fund, variable annuity, investment annuity, immediate annuity, any deferred annuity contract after annuity payments have commenced, or reversionary annuity, or to any contract which is delivered outside this State through an agent or other representative of the company issuing the contract.
S.C. Code Ann. § 38-69-220
Exceptions from operation of article
Known as the Standard Nonforfeiture Law
The act spans §§ 38–38 (31 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case South Carolina Life & Accident & Health Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Liberty Life Insurance (1998)
Most recently applied in South Carolina Life & Accident & Health Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Liberty Life Insurance (May 1998)
Former 1976 Code SECTION 38-8-20 [1978 Act No. 517 SECTION 2] recodified as SECTION 38-69-220 by 1987 Act No. 155, SECTION 1.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.