Michigan § 500.5907 - Conversion plan; provisions applicable to operation as closed block of business.

The plan shall provide that a mutual life insurance company's participating life policies in force on the effective date of the conversion shall be operated by the converted stock company for dividend purposes as a closed block of participating business, except that any and all classes of group participating policies may be excluded from the closed block.

The plan shall establish 1 or more segregated accounts for the benefit of the closed block of business and shall allocate to those segregated accounts enough assets of the mutual company so that the assets together with the revenue from the closed block of business are sufficient to support the closed block, including, but not limited to, the payment of claims, expenses, taxes, and any dividends that are provided for under the terms of the participating policies, with appropriate adjustments in the dividends for experience changes. The assets allocated to the closed block of business at its establishment shall be at least equal to the amount of reserves then held in connection with the closed block of business or the minimum reserve permitted by statute or regulation for the closed block of business, whichever is greater.

The amount of assets allocated to the segregated accounts of the closed block shall be based upon the mutual life insurance company's last annual statement, updated to the effective date of the conversion.

The converted stock company shall keep a separate accounting for the closed block and shall make and include in the annual statement to be filed with the commissioner each year a separate statement showing the gains, losses, and expenses properly attributable to the closed block.

The commissioner may waive the requirement for establishing a closed block of business if it is in the best interests of policyholders to do so. The commissioner may permit discontinuing a segregated account if its size does not warrant the expense of maintaining the segregated account.

This section applies only to mutual life insurance companies.