NRS681B.120. Standard of valuation: Minimum standards for policies and contracts.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 and in NRS 681B.125, the minimum standards for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued before January 1, 1972, are as follows:

      (a) The legal minimum standard for valuation of contracts issued before January 1, 1942, is a basis not lower than that used for the annual statement of the year during which the policies were issued, and for contracts issued on and after January 1, 1942, is the American Experience Table of Mortality with either Craig’s or Buttolph’s Extension for ages under 10, with interest at not more than 3.5 percent per annum. Annuities and pure endowments purchased under group annuity and pure endowment contracts must be valued in the same manner, with interest at not more than 5 percent. Such policies may provide for not more than 1-year preliminary term insurance by incorporating therein a clause plainly showing that the first year’s insurance under the contract is term insurance purchased by the whole or part of the premiums to be received during the first year of the contract.

      (b) The legal minimum standard for the valuation of group life insurance policies under which the premium rates are not guaranteed for more than 5 years is the American Men Ultimate Table of Mortality with interest at not more than 3.5 percent per annum.

      (c) The legal minimum standard for the valuation of industrial policies is the American Experience Table of Mortality or the Standard Industrial Mortality Table or the Substandard Industrial Mortality Table with interest at not more than 3.5 percent per annum by the net level premium method, or in accordance with their terms by the modified preliminary term method described in this section.

      (d) Reserves for all such policies and contracts may be calculated, at the option of the insurer, according to any standards which produce greater aggregate reserves than the minimum reserves required by this subsection.

      2.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 and in NRS 681B.125, the minimum standards for the valuation of all policies and contracts issued on or after January 1, 1972, are the Commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in NRS 681B.130 and 681B.150, 5 percent interest for group annuity and pure endowment contracts and 3.5 percent interest for all other such policies and contracts or, in the case of policies and contracts other than annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after July 1, 1973, 4 percent interest for such policies issued before July 1, 1977, 5.5 percent interest for single premium life insurance policies and 4.5 percent for all other such policies issued on and after July 1, 1977, and the following tables:

      (a) For all ordinary policies of life insurance issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such policies, the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table until the operative date of NRS 688A.340, and, for all such policies issued on and after the operative date of NRS 688A.340 and before the operative date of NRS 688A.325, the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, except that for any category of such policies issued on female risks all modified net premiums and present values referred to in NRS 681B.110 to 681B.150, inclusive, may be calculated according to an age not more than 6 years younger than the actual age of the insured. For policies issued on or after the operative date of NRS 688A.325:

             (1) The Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table;

             (2) At the election of the insurer for any one or more specified plans of life insurance, the Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table with Ten-Year Select Mortality Factors; or

             (3) Any ordinary mortality table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner,

Ê may be used in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies.

      (b) For all industrial life insurance policies issued on the standard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such policies, the 1941 Standard Industrial Mortality Table for such policies issued before the operative date of NRS 688A.330, and for such policies issued on or after that date, the Commissioners 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table or any industrial mortality table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies.

      (c) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such policies, the 1937 Standard Annuity Mortality Table, or, at the option of the insurer, the Annuity Mortality Table for 1949, Ultimate, or any modification of either of these tables approved by the Commissioner.

      (d) For group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such policies, the Group Annuity Mortality Table for 1951, any modification of that table approved by the Commissioner, or, at the option of the insurer, any of the tables or modifications of tables specified for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.

      (e) For total and permanent disability benefits in or supplementary to ordinary policies or contracts, for policies or contracts issued on or after January 1, 1966, the tables of Period 2 disablement rates and the 1930 to 1950 termination rates of the 1952 Disability Study of the Society of Actuaries, with due regard to the type of benefit, or any tables of disablement rates and termination rates which are adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and are approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies; and for policies or contracts issued on or after January 1, 1961, and before January 1, 1966, either such tables or, at the option of the insurer, the Class (3) Disability Table (1926).

      (f) Benefits for accidental death in or supplementary to policies, for policies issued on or after January 1, 1966, the 1959 Accidental Death Benefits Table, or any accidental death benefits table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such policies; and for policies issued on or after January 1, 1961, and before January 1, 1966, either such table or, at the option of the insurer, the Inter-Company Double Indemnity Mortality Table. Either table must be combined with a mortality table permitted for calculating the reserves for life insurance policies.

      (g) For group life insurance, for life insurance issued on the substandard basis and for special benefits, such tables as may be approved by the Commissioner.

      3.  Except as provided in NRS 681B.125, the minimum standards for the valuation of all individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the valuation operative date defined in subsection 4 and for all annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after that date, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, are the Commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in NRS 681B.130 and the following tables and interest rates:

      (a) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued before July 1, 1977, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, or any modification of the table approved by the Commissioner, and 6 percent interest for single premium immediate annuity contracts, and 4 percent interest for all other individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.

      (b) For individual single premium immediate annuity contracts issued on or after July 1, 1977, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, or any individual annuity mortality table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of those tables approved by the Commissioner, and 7.5 percent interest.

      (c) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after July 1, 1977, other than single premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table or any individual annuity mortality table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of those tables approved by the Commissioner, and 5.5 percent interest for single premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts and 4.5 percent interest for all other such individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.

      (d) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased before July 1, 1977, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under such contracts, the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table, or any modification of that table approved by the Commissioner, and 6 percent interest.

      (e) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after July 1, 1977, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under such contracts, the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table, or any group annuity mortality table which is adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and is approved by a regulation adopted by the Commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such annuities and pure endowments, or any modification of those tables approved by the Commissioner, and 7.5 percent interest.

      4.  After July 1, 1973, any insurer may file with the Commissioner a written notice of its election to comply with the provisions of subsection 3 after a specified date before January 1, 1979, which then becomes the valuation operative date for the insurer, but an insurer may elect a different valuation operative date for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts from that elected for group annuity and pure endowment contracts. If an insurer makes no such election, the valuation operative date for the insurer is January 1, 1979.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 1613; A 1973, 721; 1977, 682; 1983, 939)