Life Settlements Act
Rhode Island · Insurance · §§ 27-72-1 to 27-72-9 · 18 sections
Overview
This act governs the form and content of life insurance policies and annuity contracts, prescribing the provisions insurers must include and the terms they may not impose. It sets standard provisions covering grace periods, incontestability, the entire-contract rule, misstatement of age, dividends, policy loans, reinstatement, and the payment of premiums and claims, with parallel requirements for annuities, pure endowment contracts, and reversionary annuities, and with specific rules for industrial life insurance including beneficiary designation and prohibited provisions. It further establishes minimum nonforfeiture values for life policies and individual deferred annuities, a short post-issuance period in which a purchaser may examine and return a contract, limits on how indebtedness and settlements affect proceeds, and requirements for separate accounts and the issuance, disclosure, and regulation of variable contracts. One flag, separate from the copy above: the section titles are entirely life insurance policy-provision and nonforfeiture law — they contain nothing about life settlements (viatical/life settlement transactions, providers, brokers, or licensing). Either this act is mislabeled in the data or the wrong section set is attached to it; worth checking before this renders on all five state pages.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 4 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 715 FSUPP2D 270 - Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio v. CONREAL LLC
Sections covered
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-1Title1 cite
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-10Disclosure to insurer
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-11General rules
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-12Authority to promulgate regulations — Conflict of laws
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-13Prohibited practices
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-14Fraud prevention and control
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-15Injunctions — Civil remedies — Cease and desist
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-16Penalties
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-17Unfair trade practices
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-18Effective date
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-2Definitions3 cites
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-3Licensing requirements
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-4License suspension, revocation or refusal to renew
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-5Contract requirements
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-6Reporting requirements and privacy
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-7Examination
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-8Advertising
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-72-9Disclosures to owners
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