Arkansas § 4-28-103 - Statutory life insurance beneficiaries.

§ 4-28-103. Statutory life insurance beneficiaries.

For the purposes of this section, “public funds” means all federal, state, county, municipal, or other funds received from any taxing unit. Nonprofit corporations shall not use public funds to purchase key-man life insurance as a form of deferred compensation. The insured employee shall not receive any cash values or other benefits from the purchase of key-man life insurance with public funds. Nonprofit corporations purchasing key-man life insurance with public funds shall not transfer ownership or any other rights under such policies directly or indirectly to the insured. Nonprofit corporations violating subsection (b) of this section shall not be eligible to receive any public funds for a period of two (2) years from the date the violations are discovered. Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary, any religious, educational, charitable, or benevolent institution, organization, corporation, association, or trust, including, but not limited to, charitable remainder trusts, may be named beneficiary or owner, or both, of the policy or contract by any applicant for insurance upon his or her own life in any policy of life insurance issued by any life insurance company authorized to do business in this state or in the state of domicile of the applicant for insurance. The applicant for insurance shall be deemed to have an unlimited insurable interest in his or her own life and is entitled to name any of the institutions as beneficiary of the insurance, and the beneficiaries or owners, or both, shall have the right to receive all death benefits provided for by the policy and to exercise the rights of ownership if granted ownership. As to any life insurance policies heretofore issued by insurers naming any of the aforementioned institutions as beneficiaries or owners, or both, if the applicant for insurance was also the insured, the beneficiaries or owners, or both, shall be entitled to receive all death benefits provided by the policy and to exercise the rights of ownership if granted ownership.