2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A - Insurance Code
Article 8 - Assets and Liabilities
Section 59A-8-6 - Annual valuation; reserves.

59A-8-6. Annual valuation; reserves.

A. The superintendent shall annually value, or cause to be valued, the reserve liabilities (hereinafter called reserves) for all outstanding life insurance policies and annuity and pure endowment contracts of every life insurer authorized to do business in this state, except that as to an alien insurer the valuation shall be limited to its United States business. The superintendent may certify the amount of any such reserves, specifying the mortality table or tables, rate or rates of interest and methods (net level premium method or other) used in calculation of such reserves.

B. In calculating such reserves the superintendent may use group methods and approximate averages for fractions of a year or otherwise. In lieu of valuation of reserves herein required of a foreign or alien insurer, the superintendent may accept any valuation made, or caused to be made, by the insurance supervisory official of any state or other jurisdiction when such valuation complies with the minimum standard herein provided and if the official of such state or jurisdiction accepts as sufficient and valid for all legal purposes the certificate of valuation of the superintendent when such certificate states the valuation to have been made in a specified manner according to which the aggregate reserves would be at least as large as if they had been computed in the manner prescribed by the law of that state or jurisdiction.

C. The insurer may increase the standards of mortality in particular cases of invalid lives and other extra hazards.

D. For all health insurance policies the insurer shall maintain an active life reserve which shall place a sound value on its liabilities under such policies and be not less than the reserve according to appropriate standards set forth in regulations issued by the superintendent and in no event less in the aggregate than the pro rata gross unearned premiums for such policies.

E. In no event shall the aggregate reserves for all polices [policies], contracts and benefits be less than the aggregate reserves determined by the qualified actuary to be necessary to render the opinion required by Section 59A-8-7 NMSA 1978.

History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, 123; 1993, ch. 320, 21.