2011 California Code
Insurance Code
DIVISION 2. CLASSES OF INSURANCE [1880 - 12865]
ARTICLE 3a. Standard Valuation Law
Section 10489.3

Except as provided in Section 10489.4, the minimum standard for the valuation of all individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the compliance date of Section 10489.3, and for all annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after the compliance date of Section 10489.3, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, shall be the commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in Sections 10489.5 and 10489.6, and the following tables and interest rates:

(a) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued prior to January 1, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the Individual Annuity Mortality Table for 1971, or any modification of such table approved by the commissioner, and an interest rate of:

(1) Six percent per annum for all such contracts with commencement of benefits deferred not more than 10 years from date of issue and with premiums payable in one sum.

(2) Four percent per annum for all other such contracts.

(b) For individual single premium immediate annuity contracts issued on or after January 1, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the Individual Annuity Mortality Table for 1971 or any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 71/2 percent per annum interest.

(c) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after January 1, 1980, other than single premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in such contracts, the individual Annuity Mortality Table for 1971 or any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 51/2 percent per annum interest for single premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts and 41/2 percent per annum interest for all other such individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.

(d) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased prior to January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under such contracts, the Group Annuity Mortality Table for 1971, or any modification of this table approved by the commissioner, and 6 percent per annum interest.

(e) For all annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under such contracts, the Group Annuity Mortality Table for 1971 or any group annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or its successor, that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for such annuities and pure endowments, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 71/2 percent per annum interest.

All individual annuity and pure endowment contracts entered into prior to January 1, 1980, and all annuities and pure endowments purchased prior to January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts shall remain subject to the provisions of Article 3A (commencing with Section 10489.1) as it existed prior to January 1, 1980.

(f) With the adoption of tables by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners after 1980, the commissioner may, by regulation or bulletin, withdraw approval of the use of previously adopted tables replaced by the newly adopted tables.

(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 28, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1998.)