Virginia Law

A. Sections 38.2-3202 through 38.2-3212 shall not apply to any:

1. Certificates of fraternal benefit societies;

2. Reinsurance;

3. Group insurance;

4. Pure endowments;

5. Annuities or reversionary annuity contracts;

6. Term policies of uniform amount (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits, or renewal thereof; (ii) that are of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one; and (iii) for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;

7. Term policies of decreasing amount (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits; (ii) on which each adjusted premium calculated as specified in §§ 38.2-3205 through 38.2-3209 is less than the adjusted premium calculated on term policies of uniform amount, or renewal thereof; (iii) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits; (iv) that are issued at the same age and for the same initial amounts of insurance and for terms of twenty years or less expiring before age seventy-one; and (v) for which uniform premiums are payable during the entire term of the policy;

8. Policies (i) that provide no guaranteed nonforfeiture or endowment benefits and (ii) for which any cash surrender value or present value of any paid-up nonforfeiture benefit at the beginning of any policy year, calculated as specified in §§ 38.2-3203 through 38.2-3209, does not exceed 2 1/2% of the amount of insurance at the beginning of the same policy year; or

9. Policies delivered outside this Commonwealth through an agent or other representative of the insurer issuing the policy.

B. For purposes of determining the applicability of §§ 38.2-3202 through 38.2-3216, the age at expiry for a joint term life insurance policy shall be the age at expiry of the oldest life.

Code 1950, § 38-382; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-467; 1962, c. 562; 1982, c. 228; 1986, c. 562.