2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 16 - Financial Institutions, Insurance
Chapter 743 - Health and Life Insurance
Section 743.046 - Exemption of proceeds of individual life insurance other than annuities.

(1) When a policy of insurance is effected by any person on any person’s own life or on another life in favor of some person other than that person having an insurable interest in the life insured, the lawful beneficiary thereof, other than that person or that person’s legal representative, is entitled to its proceeds against the creditors or representatives of the person effecting the policy.

(2) The person to whom a policy of life insurance is made payable may maintain an action thereon in the person’s own name.

(3) A policy of life insurance payable to a beneficiary other than the estate of the insured, having by its terms a cash surrender value available to the insured, is exempt from execution issued from any court in this state and in the event of bankruptcy of such insured is exempt from all demands in legal proceeding under such bankruptcy.

(4) Subject to the statute of limitations, the amount of any premiums paid in fraud of creditors for such insurance, with interest thereon, shall inure to their benefit from the proceeds of the policy. The insurer issuing the policy shall be discharged of all liability thereon by payment of its proceeds in accordance with its terms unless, before such payment, the insurer has received at its home office written notice by or in behalf of some creditor, with specifications of the amount claimed, claiming to recover for certain premiums paid in fraud of creditors.

(5) The insured under any policy within this section shall not be denied the right to change the beneficiary when such right is expressly reserved in the policy.

(6) This section does not apply to annuity policies.

[Formerly 739.405 and then 743.099]