Montana § 33-20-123 - Prohibited Policy Plans -- Life Insurance Policies Or Annuity Contracts
Full text of Montana Montana Code Annotated § 33-20-123 — Prohibited Policy Plans -- Life Insurance Policies Or Annuity Contracts, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 33-20-123. Prohibited Policy Plans -- Life Insurance Policies Or Annuity Contracts
Prohibited policy plans -- life insurance policies or annuity contracts. (1) No insurer shall issue for delivery or deliver in this state any life insurance policy or annuity contract issued under any plan for the segregation of policyholders into mathematical groups and providing benefits for a surviving policyholder of a group arising out of the death of another policyholder of such group or under any other similar plan. (2) No insurer shall issue for delivery or deliver in this state any life insurance policy or annuity contract providing benefits or values for surviving or continuing policyholders contingent upon the lapse or termination of the policies of other policyholders, whether by death or otherwise. This provision shall not be deemed to prohibit the payment or allowance of regular annual dividends or "savings" under participating forms of policies or contracts or prohibit the annual distribution to policyholders or beneficiaries of sums representing in part gains to the insurer from lapses, surrenders, or mortality either in general or as resulting from particular classifications of policies.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 33-20-123 ("Prohibited Policy Plans -- Life Insurance Policies Or Annuity Contracts") is part of the Montana Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Montana. 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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