Section 11043 Of Article 4. Benefits From California Insurance Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 4.
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. A society may grant nonforfeiture benefits, cash surrender
values, certificate loans, and other options as its laws may permit.
In the case of certificates issued after September 21, 1952, other
than those for which reserves are computed on the Commissioners 1941
Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the 1941 Standard Industrial
Table, the Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the
Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, or any more
recent table approved by the commissioner that applies to life
insurers, the value of any nonforfeiture benefit granted and the
amount of any cash surrender value granted shall not be less than the
excess, if any, of (a) over (b) as follows:
(a) The reserve under the certificate determined on the basis
specified in the certificate; and
(b) The sum of any indebtedness to the society on the certificate,
including interest due and accrued, and a surrender charge of not
more than 2 1/2 percent of the face amount of the certificate, which,
in the case of insurance on the lives of children, shall be the
ultimate face amount of the certificate, if death benefits provided
therein are graded.
However, in the case of certificates issued on a substandard basis
or in the case of certificates, the reserves for which are computed
upon the American Men Ultimate Table of Mortality, the term of any
extended insurance benefit including accompanying pure endowment, if
any, may be computed upon the rates of mortality not greater than 130
percent of those shown by the mortality table specified in the
certificate for the computation of the reserve.
In the case of certificates issued after September 21, 1952, for
which reserves are computed on the Commissioners 1941 Standard
Ordinary Mortality Table, the 1941 Standard Industrial Table, the
Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, the
Commissioners 1980 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table, or any more
recent table approved by the commissioner that applies to life
insurers, the value of any nonforfeiture benefit granted and the
amount of any cash surrender value granted shall not be less than the
corresponding amount ascertained in accordance with the provisions
of Sections 10161, 10162, 10163, 10163.1, 10163.2, 10164, 10164.1,
and 10165 applicable to life insurance companies.