806 KAR 6:060. Reserve liabilities, cash

surrender values, and nonforfeiture benefits for plans of life insurance with

separate rates for smokers and nonsmokers.

 

      RELATES TO: KRS 304.6-140, 304.6-145,

304.6-180, 304.15-342, 304.15-410

      STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 304.2-110,

304.6-140, 304.15-410

      NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: EO

2004-731, signed July 9, 2004, created the Office of Insurance. KRS

304.2-110(1) authorizes the Executive Director of Insurance to make reasonable

administrative regulations necessary for or as an aid to the effectuation of

any provision of the Kentucky Insurance Code as defined in KRS 304.1-010. KRS

304.6-140 authorizes the executive director to promulgate administrative

regulations for the use of ordinary mortality tables adopted after 1980 by the

National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). KRS 304.15-410 states

that where minimum reserves cannot be determined by the methods described in

KRS 304.6-150, 304.6-155, and 304.6-180, they shall be determined by a method consistent

with the principals of these sections, but as determined by administrative

regulations issued by the executive director. This administrative regulation

permits 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 1. Definitions. (1) "1958

CET Table" means that mortality table developed by the Society of

Actuaries Special Committee on New Mortality Tables, referenced in KRS

304.15-340.

      (2) "1958 CSO Table" means a

mortality table developed by the Society of Actuaries Special Committee on New

Mortality Tables, referenced in KRS 304.15-340.

      (3) "1980 CET Table" means a

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,

referenced in KRS 304.15-342.

      (4) "1980 CSO Table, with or without

Ten (10) Year Select Mortality Factor" 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, referenced in KRS

304.6-140 and 304.15-342.

      (5) "Composite mortality

tables" refers to the mortality tables defined in subsections (1) through

(4) of this section as they were originally published with rates of mortality

that do not distinguish between smokers and nonsmokers.

      (6) "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 1 through 4 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.

 

      Section 2. Alternate Tables. (1)(a) For

any policy of insurance delivered or issued for delivery in Kentucky after July

15, 1982 for that policy form and before January 1, 1989, at the option of the

company and subject to the conditions stated in Section 3 of this

administrative regulation for the following tables for use in determining

minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and amounts of

paid-up nonforfeiture benefits:

      1. The 1958 CSO Smoker and Nonsmoker

Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CSO Table, with or without Ten

(10) Year Select Mortality Factors; and

      2. The 1958 CET Smoker and Nonsmoker

Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CET Table.

      (b) 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, minimum values may be

calculated according to an age not more than six (6) years younger than the

actual age of the insured.

      (c) 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.

      (2) For any policy of insurance delivered

or issued for delivery in this state after the operative date of KRS 304.15-342

for that policy form, at the option of the company and subject to the

conditions stated in Section 3 of this administrative regulation for the

following tables for use in determining minimum reserve liabilities and minimum

cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits:

      (a) The 1980 CSO Smoker and Nonsmoker

Mortality Tables, with or without Ten (10) Year Select Mortality Factors, may

be substituted for the 1980 CSO Table, with or without Ten (10) Year Select

Mortality Factors; and

      (b) The 1980 CET Smoker and Nonsmoker

Mortality Tables may be substituted for the 1980 CET Table.

 

      Section 3. Conditions. For each plan of

insurance with separate rates for smokers and nonsmokers an insurer may:

      (1) Use composite mortality tables to

determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and

amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits;

      (2) Use smoker and nonsmoker mortality

tables to determine the valuation net premiums and additional minimum reserves,

if any, required by KRS 304.6-140 and 304.6-180 and use composite mortality

tables to determine the basic minimum reserves, minimum cash surrender values

and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits; or

      (3) Use smoker and nonsmoker mortality to

determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and

amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits.

 

      Section 4. Severability. If any provision

of this administrative regulation or the application thereof to any person or

circumstance is for any reason held to be invalid, the remainder of the

administrative regulation and the application of such provision to other

persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

 

     Section 5. Incorporation

by Reference. (1) The following material is incorporated by reference:

      (a) "1980 CSO Table (1980)";

      (b) "Ten (10) Year Select Mortality

Factors (1980)";

      (c) "1980 CET Table (1980)";

      (d) "1958 CSO Table (1958)";

and

      (e) "1958 CET Table (1958)."

      (2) This material may be inspected,

copied, or obtained, subject to applicable copyright law, at the Kentucky

office of Insurance, 215 West Main Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, Monday

through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This material is also available on the Web

site at: http://doi.ppr.ky.gov/kentucky/. (11

Ky.R. 678; eff. 11-13-84; 31 Ky.R. 851; 1146; eff. 1-4-2005.)