"Life insurance" is insurance on human lives and insurances appertaining thereto or connected therewith. For the purposes of this code the transacting of life insurance includes the granting of annuities and endowment benefits; additional benefits in event of death by accident; additional benefits in event of the total and permanent disability of the insured; and optional modes of settlement of proceeds.
RCW 48.11.020
"Life insurance" defined.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Variable Annuity Life Insurance v. Clarke (1993)
Most recently applied in 160 F. Supp. 3d 1238 - Osborn ex rel. Petit v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (February 2016)
1947 c 79 s .11.02; Rem
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Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.