2011 Connecticut Code
Title 38a Insurance
Chapter 700e Credit Life, Accident and Health Insurance
Sec. 38a-652. (Formerly Sec. 38-256). Filing of rates.

      Sec. 38a-652. (Formerly Sec. 38-256). Filing of rates. (a) Each insurer issuing credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance shall file with the commissioner its schedules of premium rates for use in connection with such insurance. Any insurer may revise such schedules from time to time and shall file such revised schedules with the commissioner. No insurer shall issue any credit life insurance policy or credit accident and health insurance policy with a premium rate exceeding the schedules of such insurer then on file with the commissioner. The commissioner may require the filing of the schedule of premium rates for use in connection with and as a part of the specific policy filings as provided in section 38a-651.

      (b) Each individual policy, group certificate or notice of proposed insurance shall provide that, in the event of termination of the insurance prior to the scheduled maturity date of the indebtedness, any refund of an amount paid by the debtor on insurance shall be paid or credited promptly to the person entitled thereto; provided the commissioner shall prescribe a minimum refund and no refund which would be less than such minimum need be made. The formula to be used in computing such refund shall be filed with and approved by the commissioner.

      (c) If a creditor requires a debtor to make any payment for credit life insurance or credit accident and health insurance and an individual policy or group certificate of insurance is not issued, the creditor shall immediately give written notice to such debtor and shall apply such payment to the next succeeding payment or payments on the debt.

      (d) The amount charged by the creditor to the debtor for any credit life or credit health and accident insurance shall not exceed the cost of such insurance computed at the premium rate filed with the commissioner to be effective at the time the charge to the debtor is determined for the coverage provided.

      (e) Nothing in sections 38a-645 to 38a-658, inclusive, shall be construed to authorize any payments for insurance now prohibited under any statute or regulation governing credit transactions.

      (1959, P.A. 576, S. 8.)

      History: Sec. 38-256 transferred to Sec. 38a-652 in 1991.

      Annotation to former section 38-256:

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 24 CA 455.

      Annotation to present section:

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 24 CA 455.