Louisiana § RS 22:902 - Statutory life insurance beneficiaries
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 22:902 — Statutory life insurance beneficiaries, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 22:902. Statutory life insurance beneficiaries
Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any religious, educational, eleemosynary, charitable, or benevolent institution or undertaking may be named beneficiary in or owner of any policy of life insurance issued by any life insurance company upon the life of any individual. The beneficiaries or owners named shall have an insurable interest for the full face of the policy and shall be entitled to collect same. On all policies of life insurance issued before August 21, 1992, by insurers in which any of the named beneficiaries or owners shall have been designated beneficiaries in the policies, the beneficiaries shall have an insurable interest to the full extent of the face of the policy and be entitled to collect same, without penalty or deduction.
Acts 1991, No. 776, §1; Acts 1992, No. 1130, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 22:614.1 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2011, No. 94, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.
NOTE: Former R.S. 22:902 redesignated as R.S. 22:769 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 22:902 ("Statutory life insurance beneficiaries") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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